Help me send Freeview through RF

niihau

I bought my TV just before it was the norm form them to have built in freeview. So I just have a small freeview box connected by scart.

I have one remote for the TV, which is just used for changing sources, volume up or down and a separate remote for the freeview box.

I would like a more elegant setup. Where I can use just the tv remote and have the freeview channels assigned to the TV's channels and use a device to which allows me to connect it to the RF input.

In the dim and distant past, I worked in an electronics store that had a sky box and DVD player connected to some sort of distribution box, which supplied all of the store's display TVs with sky and a dvd ran on loop to show store promotions. All of this was sent down one coax and plugged into a standard TV aerial socket. The TVs were setup to autoscan and assigned the sky channels and dvd feed to a channel on the TV set.

What is the device I need to do the same? my searches keep turning up RF Modulators, but it appears these just convert the signal and do not handle the channel I am looking for.

Syman

In the situation you describe, there is a single output to many sources.

What you are proposing would appear to require the freeview box to put out simutaneous signals of all channels to a output source.


Would be cheaper to buy a new TV with integral Freeview.

penrhyn

The simple solution is to buy a TV with a DTT tuner, or if you don't want to do that get a universal remote that controls both the TV and the Freeview box.
The system as you describe would result in very poor picture quality and even mono audio!

googler

You won't be able to do this because there's not enough channels in the spectrum handled by your TV (typically channel 21-64, as I recall) to handle all of those on either Freeview or Sky.

And the TV won't have enough assignable internal channels to handle even a fraction of them

LucianH

I've had two Digiboxes in the past (Humax and Sony). The remotes for both of these could be programmed to provide the basic TV controls.

niihau

Thank you all for the consistency of replies. The solutions presented are simple and valuable.

almillar

Surely what you're looking for is another Freeview box, many of them have buttons for *TV* volume, power etc. You enter a code for your brand of TV, and it'll control it. Sky boxes, and loads of Freeview boxes (Humax for example) have this facility. Don't mess around with this RF stuff!