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Using wireless to view tv and sky tv

I want to move my existing sky and to points so I can relocate to to another part of the room. I have an aversion to cables being visible and the place I want the to in will necessitate cables goi g round a door. I don't really want them to run under the carpet as that will mean getting a carpet fitter in too.
Someone suggested a wireless connection instead to do away with the cables completely.
Has anyone had any experience of these? Would you recommend them?
Thanks

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Whatever you do, don't even think of using those £30-ish "video senders" that use their own wireless channel. The ones I bought suffered interference, intermittent (loud) clicks, overpowered the local wifi signal (preventing other wireless devices from working), and occasionally crashed the router completely.

    A long while back I had one of the original Slingboxes, which do what you want, except the software needs to run on a PC or mobile device, and they aren't wireless. But they work well. The newer M1 model does have wireless, so if you can install the Slingbox app on your TV (if it's a smart one), that should do what you want... Sort of.

    http://www.slingbox.com/Products/SlingboxM1/Features.aspx
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