Wireless TV Link

As posted elsewhere I am getting a communal sat system installed in my block
of flats sometime next year to be ready for 1st Nov 2010. Currently I have a
RF/coax socket in the living room and bedroom which is fed by a cable tv
system - I have to pay £ 1 a month to cable supplier to have a tv signal in
the bedroom turned on.

I think that they will most likely concentrate on getting a digital signal
into the lounge where the main tv watching will take place and will probably
install a LNB socket and possibly another RF/coax socket for the digital
aerial perhaps leaving the cable RF/coax socket in place.

The bedroom most likely will not have anything extra added to it so I think
I will need to keep paying the £ 1 a month to have a cable signal in there -
not really sure at this stage.

So unless I can use some kind of wireless tv link device to send a picture
from the SKY HD box I plan to get into the bedroom.

At my mums place which was designed for communal sattelite from day 1, there
is a socket on the wall which has a FM port, a Aerial port, an LNB port and
another RF port which is connected to the RF out of the SKY box and it sends
a picture to the RF sockets in the other rooms so I can use and do use a TV
Link.

I doubt I will have the RF out function in my installation so is there
anything wireless and decent which can be used as an alternative to TV link
that you simply plug into the TV as a reciever.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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As posted elsewhere I am getting a communal sat system installed in my
block of flats sometime next year to be ready for 1st Nov 2010. Currently
I have a RF/coax socket in the living room and bedroom which is fed by a
cable tv system - I have to pay £ 1 a month to cable supplier to have a tv
signal in the bedroom turned on.

I think that they will most likely concentrate on getting a digital signal
into the lounge where the main tv watching will take place and will
probably install a LNB socket and possibly another RF/coax socket for the
digital aerial perhaps leaving the cable RF/coax socket in place.

The bedroom most likely will not have anything extra added to it so I
think I will need to keep paying the £ 1 a month to have a cable signal in
there - not really sure at this stage.

So unless I can use some kind of wireless tv link device to send a picture
from the SKY HD box I plan to get into the bedroom.

At my mums place which was designed for communal sattelite from day 1,
there is a socket on the wall which has a FM port, a Aerial port, an LNB
port and another RF port which is connected to the RF out of the SKY box
and it sends a picture to the RF sockets in the other rooms so I can use
and do use a TV Link.

I doubt I will have the RF out function in my installation so is there
anything wireless and decent which can be used as an alternative to TV
link that you simply plug into the TV as a reciever.

I've seen one of these in use and it seemed to work well.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?...gA4wodD zibrQ

Whatever you go for make sure it's 5Ghz and not 2.4Ghz which cause / receive
interference from Wifi

Paul

"Paulg0" wrote in message
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Whatever you go for make sure it's 5Ghz and not 2.4Ghz which cause /
receive interference from Wifi

I have a question, do these work with an analogue RF/Coax connection or just
digital setup top box type applications, I was thinking I could get one of
these now and cancel the £ 1 a month charge to recieve the analogue channels
in the bedroom via cable - then come Nov 2010 I would be all set to use it
with SKY HD as well.

So I have to know can you connect up an RF/Coax cable as the input and
recieve the 4 terrestrial channels in another room or is it only for digital
set top boxes.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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"Paulg0" wrote in message
m...

Whatever you go for make sure it's 5Ghz and not 2.4Ghz which cause /
receive interference from Wifi

I have a question, do these work with an analogue RF/Coax connection or
just digital setup top box type applications, I was thinking I could get
one of these now and cancel the £ 1 a month charge to recieve the analogue
channels in the bedroom via cable - then come Nov 2010 I would be all set
to use it with SKY HD as well.

So I have to know can you connect up an RF/Coax cable as the input and
recieve the 4 terrestrial channels in another room or is it only for
digital set top boxes.

The ones I have seen are only for set top boxes and just have a single scart
input on them

Paul

"Paulg0" wrote in message
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"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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"Paulg0" wrote in message
m...

Whatever you go for make sure it's 5Ghz and not 2.4Ghz which cause /
receive interference from Wifi

I have a question, do these work with an analogue RF/Coax connection or
just digital setup top box type applications, I was thinking I could get
one of these now and cancel the £ 1 a month charge to recieve the
analogue channels in the bedroom via cable - then come Nov 2010 I would
be all set to use it with SKY HD as well.

So I have to know can you connect up an RF/Coax cable as the input and
recieve the 4 terrestrial channels in another room or is it only for
digital set top boxes.

The ones I have seen are only for set top boxes and just have a single
scart input on them

Doh, the Maplin one I pointed you to appears to be phone socket input so it
will be 3 sockets, 2 for sound and 1 video

Paul

"Paulg0" wrote in message
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The ones I have seen are only for set top boxes and just have a single
scart input on them

Doh, the Maplin one I pointed you to appears to be phone socket input so
it will be 3 sockets, 2 for sound and 1 video


So presumably you connect a SCART lead into the SKY HD box and the other end
into the sender rather then the TV, the SKY HD box HDMI lead goes into the
TV as normal.... what happens then on a SKY + box where you connect via
SCART anyway, do you have to split the SCART lead so that one goes into the
TV and the other into the sender.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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"Paulg0" wrote in message
m...

The ones I have seen are only for set top boxes and just have a single
scart input on them

Doh, the Maplin one I pointed you to appears to be phone socket input so
it will be 3 sockets, 2 for sound and 1 video


So presumably you connect a SCART lead into the SKY HD box and the other
end into the sender rather then the TV, the SKY HD box HDMI lead goes into
the TV as normal.... what happens then on a SKY + box where you connect
via SCART anyway, do you have to split the SCART lead so that one goes
into the TV and the other into the sender.

You would be OK with a Sky+ box as it has 2 SCART sockets..... If ou wanted
to use a device with only one SCART then yes you would have to split it.

Paul

Nick Le Lievre ] said:

As posted elsewhere I am getting a communal sat system installed in my block
of flats sometime next year to be ready for 1st Nov 2010. Currently I have a
RF/coax socket in the living room and bedroom which is fed by a cable tv
system - I have to pay £ 1 a month to cable supplier to have a tv signal in
the bedroom turned on.

I think that they will most likely concentrate on getting a digital signal
into the lounge where the main tv watching will take place and will probably
install a LNB socket and possibly another RF/coax socket for the digital
aerial perhaps leaving the cable RF/coax socket in place.

The bedroom most likely will not have anything extra added to it so I think
I will need to keep paying the £ 1 a month to have a cable signal in there -
not really sure at this stage.

So unless I can use some kind of wireless tv link device to send a picture
from the SKY HD box I plan to get into the bedroom.

At my mums place which was designed for communal sattelite from day 1, there
is a socket on the wall which has a FM port, a Aerial port, an LNB port and
another RF port which is connected to the RF out of the SKY box and it sends
a picture to the RF sockets in the other rooms so I can use and do use a TV
Link.

I doubt I will have the RF out function in my installation so is there
anything wireless and decent which can be used as an alternative to TV link
that you simply plug into the TV as a reciever.

I have these...

Argos part number 9004296

And they work perfectly. Bought mine on Amazon a bit cheaper.

Before I had a set of the 2.4 GHz type but my wi-fi caused mild
interference to the picture and the microwave (the receiving TV is in
the kitchen) wiped the sound and picture clean out.