Moving TV to anywhere in the room . . . .

Avoriaz

wongataa wrote: »

Surely it would be cheaper to extend the aerial wire or move the aerial point than buy a satellite dish and new satellite box. If the OP does not want to keep paying BT for Youview they can stop and the box will still work fine, just without the BT specific features.

Of course it would be cheaper. I said that in post 2.

I'm merely making hopefully useful alternative suggestions for the OP to consider.

Moneymaker

The_Salad wrote: »

is the WF65-1 coaxial cable still the right stuff for the job? I see it is quite inexpensive on the Amazon.

I think you'll only find TWIN WF65 on Amazon not SINGLE WF65-1.

The_Salad

Whats the difference MoneyMaker? Is this the right stuff if I just want to extend the aerial cable around the skirting board of the room to a TV in the opposite corner?

alfie_1

bod1467 wrote: »

You're on the right site. You're also on the wrong thread.

Please don't be so disrespectful - start your OWN thread.

if this answer is for me then by saying what you have, when i mistakenly asked a question on an open forum, is disrespectful in itself. a simple polite reply would have sufficed.

yangptangkipperbang

whitewing wrote: »

I like the idea of a roaming TV, except that I have enough trouble finding the remote control some days...let alone a wandering telly.

You're hardly likely to lose a 47" TV down the back of the sofa cushions - are you ? :rotfl::rotfl:

bod1467

alfie_1 wrote: »

if this answer is for me then by saying what you have, when i mistakenly asked a question on an open forum, is disrespectful in itself. a simple polite reply would have sufficed.

Don't be an idiot - my post (which you are interpreting as a question) is being posed TO the OP of the thread as a possible option to resolve the question the OP asked in his own thread! Which is why the OP thanked my post.

:rotfl:

esuhl

Just a thought... if anyone really wants a wireless TV, I'm sure some kind of set-up like this should (theoretically!) be possible:

Connect a PC to the aerial socket via a video capture card, and re-broadcast the video over the LAN. Then you can stream to PCs/tablets, etc. So connect each of your TVs to a PC with wi-fi.

To change channels, perhaps there's some software you could run on each PC/device to send a signal back to the video server... Or maybe you could use a standard PC/TV remote and an infra-red receiver, and use those "magic eye" IR transmitters so you could use the remote-control handset anywhere in the house...

I'm sure it would be possible... (if time, money, and spending time trying to get everything working together wasn't an issue!).

Kurtis_Blue

The_Salad wrote: »

Whats the difference MoneyMaker? Is this the right stuff if I just want to extend the aerial cable around the skirting board of the room to a TV in the opposite corner?

WF65 is as you have seen twin cable for sat installs it has custom sized cable ends for sat systems, the only person who sells it in single runs in moneymakers own website satcure.

Hence why he is spamming it here.

I'm guessing he is splitting twin runs to crate single runs of WF65 because the manufacture doesn't produce it.

It is possibly the stupidest thing I think I have ever seen for dtv, you will not be able to securely fit cable ends to it for connection to your TV, even using barrels and F connector adapters is a DIY pain with the easily bent .65mm cable.

Just buy the correct cable RG6 or WF100.

Or jut get an aerial installer in, if the new position is on an external wall works will be very easy.

I_have_spoken

I'm sure it would be possible... (if time, money, and spending time trying to get everything working together wasn't an issue!).

Or just buy a Slingbox http://www.slingbox.com/go/slingbox

esuhl

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Or just buy a Slingbox http://www.slingbox.com/go/slingbox

Oh yeah! The Slingbox 500 looks perfect. You can even connect a USB hard drive to it.

Then I changed from the US to the UK site, and the Slingbox 500 doesn't seem to be available. And they charge £10 or £11 for the software you need to install on each device... :-/