wideboyuk

I'm after a gadget to send my sky signal to an upstairs telly.
Looked in Argos and they range from £40 (AEI) to £80 (Phillips).
Any suggestions or points I need to take into account.
Thanks guys

Dazza01

Be careful if u also connect it to the video, as next door may well pick up the signal, not good for the "home movies" if u get my drift

edited to add, why don't you just buy a booster box, and connect it that way, only cost about a £10

[Edited by Dazza01 - 10/25/2003 1:32:45 PM]

Mr.Cookie

Some Sky boxes already have an additional tv out, so like dazza says just run a coax upstairs, if it hasn't can you use the scart on sat box to connect to tv/video downstairs then the tv out to upstairs (this is how i do my cable tv)

Si

LoFi

I use a "digisender" brought from Argos - excellent peice of kit.

LoFi

bob gray

iTrader: (1)

i got a medion from toys r us £40, works great..

Dazza01

i brought 1 booster box which can run upto 5 tv's.
My sky/video can be watched in the 3 bedrooms upstairs with perfect picture quality

AndiThompson

If I get one of these, can i use it for the terristrial signal, AND the sky signal?

And what are the differences? Are the £80 ones that much better than £40?

jono400

You used to be able to buy very cheap £10 video senders from all lot off the electrical / fancy goods shops for this pupose years ago, not to sure if these gadgets are still around anymore ?? worth checking out though for the money ??

john..

Dazza01

Booster box

Things gone up in price since i brought my box 10 yrs ago

Tony_W

I use them in a house I'm renting at the mo'.

The Transmitter plugs into a scart output from my video.
It Tx's the signal upstairs to a Receiver, also plugged into a scart socket on the TV.

The picture is clear but you can only watch what the video downstairs has selected.

It's not as good as having a loft box splitter with co-ax to each room in the house (as my new house will have), where you can watch whatever channel you want.

Tony

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

I believe (someone back me up on this ) that the coax outputs on the back of the skybox do not output the audio in stereo

Worth bearing in mind if your 2nd TV is Nicam stereo

wideboyuk

I've run co-ac from my skybox but the length is too great and the signal is carp.
Just wondered if a £40 sender was as good as an £80 jobbie, in giving a crystal clear picture.

4X4BOB

It could be a fault of the cable your using.
For Sky and digital terrestrial telly you need the higher quality satalite co-axial cable. Thinks its because it has better screening or something to standard co-ax cable which will give you a crap quality piccy on long cable runs.
Could also be due to the impedance(or resistance?) of the cable.

My 2€'s worth

Bob

wideboyuk

Am only using 'regular' tv co-ax. Better try the dearer stuff instead.