Have been thinking of getting a video sender unit so that we can watch sky upstairs in bed too, anyone used one or can recommend one ??

Or are they rubbish ?

Any thoughts before i spend some cash .....

Cheers

The radio signal ones are not up to much and the picture can be poor. The inline type seems the best, but means running another cable through your house.

As far as I'm aware, the single piece ones (sender only) are crap, but the 2 piece ones (sender and receiver) are fine.

2nd hand knowledge, but consistant

[Edited on 22/5/07 by UncleFista]

i don't know how easily this can be done one an existing set up, but what we have is 2 sky boxes in a cupboard upstairs, both (RF outputs) plugged into a 'combiner' which combines the signals from both boxes along with a normal aerial signal, and the output from the combiner goes to all the TVs in the house. each TV has an IR thingy on it so that the sky box remotes work from any TV in the house.

http://www.tvlink.co.uk/

but maybe this is more trouble than its woth, but i've been told those tv senders are pretty poor

find a local sky installer (not one of sky's own...) and i'm sure they'll gladly have a look for you

[Edited on 22/5/07 by blakep82]

The tv senders are porr. My mum got one. I made her get a decent expensiveish jobbie. The sound som but the picture isnt that great. Your better of getting an i-link and running a cable up to your other room. Perfect picture. Iv got that in my bedroom. Remote in both rooms.

The Radio one i've got isin't upto much although that could be due to having a Wireless Network as well, they both transmit on the 2.4 Ghz frequency

We have digi sender, got one sender, receiver in conservatory and upstairs, great picture n sound, remote works fine.
Use it for the sky signal and DVD.

They vary basically. The cheapy one I got from Argos is utter pants, I have to turn off my wireless router and all the pc's to use it, and even then it's still really bad quality. Haven't used it for a while now, probably can't any more as all the neighbours have got wifi recently.

I had another even cheaper one that the father-in-law picked up in France, worked very well in comparison. Video was about VHS quality, sound was decent enough but would suffer a bit if the signal wasn't good.

I've never been impressed by any of the ones I've seen. Best of just taking a morning and running a cable in.

Chris

Do not rule out the radio video senders. There are some extremely good ones on the market capable of what you are looking for.

I had a "Marmitek Gigavideo 70" from Simply Automate... It was a TOP peice of kit until it blew up last week!



(It was nearly three years old)

Here's the link to it:

Marmitek Video Sender

I noticed this was also on their website, it appears to be a more serious peice of kit capable of sending several inputs...

Top Notch Video Sender

I admit this one's a little pricey and do you need all those inputs on the £105 model?)

My Marmitek sent both 4:3 and widescreen flawlessly to my 32 inch LCD bedroom screen - some 25 metres away. I'm really picky too when it comes to picture quality, so that should reassure you.

In addiition, the receiver end had phono (audio), scart, s-video and RF outputs meaning that you could convert the scart output of your Sky box into any of the above or alternatively simply use it to transmit music to a hi-fi!

At the time, it was the only peice of kit on the market that actually relayed your remote signal properly back to the old PACE NTL set top boxes (which used a different IR signal).

I also hear very good reviews about the Philips video senders which I beleive you can buy from Argos and Curries.

Don't you love it when someone's been there, done that, and has the info?



I'd give Simply Automate a ring. They offer extremely good advice, and were my number one company recently until they refused to sort out my £600 philips pronto remote control just 12 months and one week after buying it.