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And HorizonUK, AFN (American Forces Network - highly amusing and very insular) Nick, and sometimes NTL stuff. So what I hear you mumble.
Well I just have a normal TV with a normal arial, no extras and no boxes or anything else.
Must be picking it up from a neighbour?
Does anyone else get free channels?
Well I just have a normal TV with a normal arial, no extras and no boxes or anything else.
Must be picking it up from a neighbour?
Does anyone else get free channels?
And HorizonUK, AFN (American Forces Network - highly amusing and very insular) Nick, and sometimes NTL stuff. So what I hear you mumble.
Well I just have a normal TV with a normal arial, no extras and no boxes or anything else.
Must be picking it up from a neighbour?
Does anyone else get free channels?
Maybe you've got a loose filling
Basically a mini telly transmitter, you plug sky box/dvd player etc into it and it rebroadcasts it over a small area and you tune your TV in bedroom or wherever to pick it up.
Downside is you have to go downstairs to change channel on sky box or DVD or whatever. Quality is generally crap and the older ones like this are I think illegal now (newer ones use their own microwave signal and you need a reciever as well but their better quality, they don't interfere with other peoples TV's either)
Downside is you have to go downstairs to change channel on sky box or DVD or whatever. Quality is generally crap and the older ones like this are I think illegal now (newer ones use their own microwave signal and you need a reciever as well but their better quality, they don't interfere with other peoples TV's either)
I've got one and the units also have infrared receivers/transmitters, so you can use a remote in one room, and it switches the digibox over in another room. They are a bit prone to interference e.g when the cat walks though the signal! The picture quality is perfect, though mine is better with the units set to different channels!?
nubbin said: I've got one and the units also have infrared receivers/transmitters, so you can use a remote in one room, and it switches the digibox over in another room. They are a bit prone to interference e.g when the cat walks though the signal! The picture quality is perfect, though mine is better with the units set to different channels!?
Sounds good Nubbin, where did you get yours from and what make is it?
Just been contemplating running cable trough the attic to the top floor rooms but this sounds a better idea.
Funny, I've been looking for one of these devices for some time and stumbled across it yesterday:
www.buyitoverthenet.com/
Thomson video sender
www.buyitoverthenet.com/
Thomson video sender
PetrolTed said: Funny, I've been looking for one of these devices for some time and stumbled across it yesterday:
www.buyitoverthenet.com/
Thomson video sender
You been looking at those BodyPerks then Ted eh? One size fits all
FourWheelDrift said:
PetrolTed said: Funny, I've been looking for one of these devices for some time and stumbled across it yesterday:
www.buyitoverthenet.com/
Thomson video sender
You been looking at those BodyPerks then Ted eh? One size fits all
These video senders normally work over the license-free 2.4GHz ISM band. So (a) they're not legally dubious, and (b) they shouldn't be picked up by a plain vanilla TV.
On the other hand, if someone's jerry rigged a way of sending TV around their house using a couple of antennas (one plugged into the output of, say, a sky box, the other plugged into the input of another TV) and an amplifier, that might account for what's happening. Uh, on the other hand it might not. Do you get all these channels at once, or just whatever someone else happens to be watching at the time?
Are you sure your telly doesn't have an integrated digital TV receiver?
>> Edited by Marshy on Friday 11th April 21:10
On the other hand, if someone's jerry rigged a way of sending TV around their house using a couple of antennas (one plugged into the output of, say, a sky box, the other plugged into the input of another TV) and an amplifier, that might account for what's happening. Uh, on the other hand it might not. Do you get all these channels at once, or just whatever someone else happens to be watching at the time?
Are you sure your telly doesn't have an integrated digital TV receiver?
>> Edited by Marshy on Friday 11th April 21:10
Marshy said: These video senders normally work over the license-free 2.4GHz ISM band. So (a) they're not legally dubious, and (b) they shouldn't be picked up by a plain vanilla TV.
On the other hand, if someone's jerry rigged a way of sending TV around their house using a couple of antennas (one plugged into the output of, say, a sky box, the other plugged into the input of another TV) and an amplifier, that might account for what's happening. Uh, on the other hand it might not. Do you get all these channels at once, or just whatever someone else happens to be watching at the time?
Are you sure your telly doesn't have an integrated digital TV receiver?
>> Edited by Marshy on Friday 11th April 21:10
the old ones never needed a reciever they used normal tv broadcast frequencies to enable multiple televisions to be tuned in!
) when she threw a pair of these at me. They are freaky little buggers, but a bit TOO perky.Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff