Wireless TV
 

I am looking for a way to send the TV signal from one end of my living
room to the other. I don't want to re-wire an aerial connection on the
other wall and would like some advice on how to do this wirelessly.

I have a freeview box which will be directly connected to the aerial
point. From here I'd like to be able to wirelessly send the signal to
the TV at the other end of the room.

At some point in the near future I may also want to send the signal up
the stairs to a bedroom (or two).

What options do I have and when sending the signal to the living room
TV, would the freeview remote only work when pointed at the freeview
box or would the tv be able to send the signal back to it?

Thanks!

Wireless TV
 

"StuR" wrote in message
ups.com...
I am looking for a way to send the TV signal from one end of my living
room to the other. I don't want to re-wire an aerial connection on the
other wall and would like some advice on how to do this wirelessly.

I have a freeview box which will be directly connected to the aerial
point. From here I'd like to be able to wirelessly send the signal to
the TV at the other end of the room.

At some point in the near future I may also want to send the signal up
the stairs to a bedroom (or two).

What options do I have and when sending the signal to the living room
TV, would the freeview remote only work when pointed at the freeview
box or would the tv be able to send the signal back to it?

Thanks!


Look for a wireless video sender such as this one from Philips:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-VL1200...QQcmdZViewItem

- Simon.

Wireless TV
 

"StuR" wrote in message
ups.com...
I am looking for a way to send the TV signal from one end of my living
room to the other. I don't want to re-wire an aerial connection on the
other wall and would like some advice on how to do this wirelessly.

I have a freeview box which will be directly connected to the aerial
point. From here I'd like to be able to wirelessly send the signal to
the TV at the other end of the room.

At some point in the near future I may also want to send the signal up
the stairs to a bedroom (or two).

What options do I have and when sending the signal to the living room
TV, would the freeview remote only work when pointed at the freeview
box or would the tv be able to send the signal back to it?

Thanks!

Something like the "Digisender" video sender from Maplin is designed for the
job, and it transmits remote control signals back from the receiver. Look in
Sound & Vision Remote Controls Audio / Video at www.maplin.co.uk, and
scroll down to the reasonably priced ones.

The only disadvantage of video senders is that they send just the composite
PAL video so you will lose the benefit of RGB.

Wireless TV
 

Is the quality of the signal kept when using digisenders or something
similar?

You mentioned that they only send composite PAL video and not
RGB....what difference does this make to the end result?

As I only have one remote control for my freewview box, would a
universal controler work for the second tv and would I be able to get
all the freeview channels?

If I was to get one sender and two receivers, would it be possible for
someone to watch one program in one room while someone else watches a
different program on the other set? Or is it basically one channel at
a time?

Wireless TV
 

In article , Stephen
wrote:

The only disadvantage of video senders is that they send just the composite
PAL video so you will lose the benefit of RGB.

Which is also true of wired multi-room systems.

Stan

Wireless TV
 

StuR wrote:
Is the quality of the signal kept when using digisenders or something
similar?

Wireless senders can be rather prone to interference caused by people
moving about and disrupting the signal, so they are not necessarily
ideal for your situation. They also don't play nicely with wireless
networks.

You mentioned that they only send composite PAL video and not
RGB....what difference does this make to the end result?

In my limited experience, and subject to what I've just written, the
picture quality suffers little degradation from the sender itself.
However, the composite signal is only slightly better than using RF, and
significantly worse than S-video or RGB (or component). Unless your
display is quite small, you will probably notice this.

As I only have one remote control for my freewview box, would a
universal controler work for the second tv and would I be able to get
all the freeview channels?

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. Video senders normally have a
second channel which "echoes" the IR command from your remote back to
another IR emitter which you point at the Freeview box (or whatever). So
you just point your normal remote at the video sender receiver (yuk!),
and it takes care of it.

If I was to get one sender and two receivers, would it be possible for
someone to watch one program in one room while someone else watches a
different program on the other set? Or is it basically one channel at
a time?

One channel at a time. They could both watch the same channel.

Wireless TV
 

Pyriform wrote:

StuR wrote:
Is the quality of the signal kept when using digisenders or something
similar?

Wireless senders can be rather prone to interference caused by people
moving about and disrupting the signal, so they are not necessarily
ideal for your situation. They also don't play nicely with wireless
networks.

Indeed. I have to turn my digisender off if I need to use my wireless
network.

You mentioned that they only send composite PAL video and not
RGB....what difference does this make to the end result?

In my limited experience, and subject to what I've just written, the
picture quality suffers little degradation from the sender itself.
However, the composite signal is only slightly better than using RF, and
significantly worse than S-video or RGB (or component). Unless your
display is quite small, you will probably notice this.

As I only have one remote control for my freewview box, would a
universal controler work for the second tv and would I be able to get
all the freeview channels?

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. Video senders normally have a
second channel which "echoes" the IR command from your remote back to
another IR emitter which you point at the Freeview box (or whatever). So
you just point your normal remote at the video sender receiver (yuk!),
and it takes care of it.

I have a couple of the universal (one for etc) controllers and it does
what it needs to do in terms of changing the channel.

If I was to get one sender and two receivers, would it be possible for
someone to watch one program in one room while someone else watches a
different program on the other set? Or is it basically one channel at
a time?

One channel at a time. They could both watch the same channel.

With two receivers one person could watch one channel from one receiver
and the other could watch another channel via the sender. Just be
careful about placement so that the 1st user doesn't change the channel
for the 2nd user and vice versa.

Doc

Wireless TV
 

"Stan The Man" wrote in message
...
In article , Stephen
wrote:

The only disadvantage of video senders is that they send just the
composite
PAL video so you will lose the benefit of RGB.

Which is also true of wired multi-room systems.

Stan

I like the look of the Sony Location-Free TV concept. The base station is
not just your standard media streamer requiring a PC. It also contains a TV
tuner, hard disk recorder and s-video input's for a DVD player or STB.
S-video is much better than composite, and up to the arrival of component
was the standard hi-quality input on US/Japan home theatre equipment.

Hopefully Sony will offer more base stations, replacing the analogue tuner
with a Freeview one. It already switch's between mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 encoding
as distance reduces bandwidth, making HDTV a possibility. Of course that
isn't necessary with a 12 inch display, but perhaps' we will see larger
Location-Free set's in the future.

Wireless TV
 

Dr Hfuhruhurr wrote:
With two receivers one person could watch one channel from one
receiver and the other could watch another channel via the sender.
Just be careful about placement so that the 1st user doesn't change
the channel for the 2nd user and vice versa.

I was assuming he was talking about having one video sender and two
video-sender-receivers...

It's a linguistic nightmare, this stuff. I'll go and lie down now.

Wireless TV
 

Pyriform wrote:
Dr Hfuhruhurr wrote:
With two receivers one person could watch one channel from one
receiver and the other could watch another channel via the sender.
Just be careful about placement so that the 1st user doesn't change
the channel for the 2nd user and vice versa.

I was assuming he was talking about having one video sender and two
video-sender-receivers...

It's a linguistic nightmare, this stuff. I'll go and lie down now.

Hope you're feeling better :=))

To the OP, if you want to have different channels available in the
second room, you would need a second freeview box (which will of course
come with it's own Remote (and if you are lucky it won't operate on the
same codes as the original box - hint, buy another manufacturers box))
use this solely to feed the second TV via the Video sender.

Better still, runa piece of coax, you know it makes sense.

If Bill or someone equally erudite is listening, would you recommend
using a splitter/amplifier to feed two digiboxes, or is it acceptable
to daisychain them?