TV in bedroom

Craftyscholar

I have a spare portable TV and a Freeview box.
Is there anyway I can set this up for use in bedroom without access to roof aerial?

scotsbob

Craftyscholar wrote: »

I have a spare portable TV and a Freeview box.
Is there anyway I can set this up for use in bedroom without access to roof aerial?

If you are in a strong signal area then use a set top aerial. If you can't and you don't want to, or can't, connect to an external aerial then you coud try usi a "magic eye" type of video sender to transmit from your main tv.

Craftyscholar

Thanks.
I'll try the set top aerial.
The cable from the external aerial comes down the front of the house and into the ground floor front room. The bedroom is upstairs at the back so connecting to outside aerial not really feasible.

beejaybee

I was oing to ask the same question. By doing as suggested, does that mean that if watching the tv upstairs, you can only watch what`s being watch downstairs??

scotsbob

beejaybee wrote: »

I was oing to ask the same question. By doing as suggested, does that mean that if watching the tv upstairs, you can only watch what`s being watch downstairs??

Correct. In so far as the original poster is concerned, it it the only alternative to not wanting to rewire the aerial.

KimYeovil

Some video senders have a remote unit with it's own remote so you can switch what is being watched. (No need to watch the same as downstairs - aerial is fed separately to both tv and sender.)

Of course, the cost of the fancier boxes means it would be just as cheap to extend/rewire the roof-top aerial.

matth1j

There are some indoor aerial tests at the www dot ricability-digitaltv dot org dot ok website (sorry not allowed to post a link because I'm a new user).

The one with the highest score is the Philex SLX Gold digiTop 27769R with 96%, which they say is £15. "Directional aerial with good sensitivity. Easy to locate. Should get all channels in medium and some weaker signal areas."

purply

Hi, OP,
We dont have a roof aerial at all-use sky for downstairs.
For the bedroom-we have a TV and freeview box but have to use an aerial with amplifier (we got ours from argos-just under £20) and works fine-no probs at all.

HTH

scotsbob

KimYeovil wrote: »

Some video senders have a remote unit with it's own remote so you can switch what is being watched. (No need to watch the same as downstairs - aerial is fed separately to both tv and sender.)

This would only work with the original poster's Freeview box if it had twin tuners.