Board logo

Wireless TV transmitters
DarrenW - 25/1/08 at 10:48 PM

Main TV in living room (42" Plasma:cool ha great picture being connected to main aerial.

TV in kitchen is crap at best bing connected to rather poor indoor aerial (probs a good aerial but i live in bad reception area). Could i get a good picture on kitchen TV by using a TV transmitter?


joneh - 25/1/08 at 10:50 PM

I used one for a bit - it depends on how thick your walls are. I refund them all the time at work becasue they're generaly crap! My one was going through the ceiling and it had loads of interfance. Run a cable if possible.

hth.


jambojeef - 25/1/08 at 10:52 PM

Id second that.

Bought one from Maplin - had it 2omins took it straight back.

Awful


DarrenW - 25/1/08 at 11:21 PM

Oh well - that puts that idea back on the heap.

Thanks for your honest response.


Jon Ison - 25/1/08 at 11:44 PM

Don't despair, we run TV in conservatory, and one upstairs at our place, dint you call in ?
You know how far apart they are, very.......

Digisender from ebay.


Macbeast - 26/1/08 at 05:56 AM

You do appreciate that your main set would have to be on and tuned to the channel you want to watch in the kitchen ?

As said ^^^ everything depends on the obstructions between the send and receive units - I've had good results over 1/4 mile in open space but poor results room to room if say a radiator's in the way.

Much better and cheaper to split the feed from your main aerial


BenB - 26/1/08 at 08:53 AM

You often also find that microwaves make them go crazy (!) so the kitchen may be a problem if you're always binging things...


need4speed - 26/1/08 at 05:31 PM

Depending on what channel it uses it can also wipe out any wireless internet you have at home.