broadcast cable signal around house

John Player

HI all,

I have cable digital from NTL in the sitting room - what I want to do is broadcast the basic cable NTL channels into 2 bedrooms without wiring the place.

About 2 years ago I got cheap senders in argos but they only let me send the digital & dvd (scart) in, and I could only watch what digital channels were on the main tv in the other tv's.

what I would like is that someone can be watching digital outside in the sitting room and then there can be someone in both other bedrooms able to watch whatever of the basic 16 or so NTL channels they want at the same time. - so there is something different on each TV.

Is this possible and if so can anyone recommend what hardware I should look for.


Thanks very much,
luke

loyatemu

sounds like you're looking for a transmitter. it would almost certainly be cheaper to get NTL to wire the additional rooms.

John Player

i am renting so its not an option

zilog_jones

There's not really any viable way of transmitting all those analogue channels wirelessly within your house. Your choices are pretty much either video senders like you have already or getting co-ax cable to the other TVs.

What you could do if you have a VCR in the sitting room is use the tuner on that for the video sender input - at least then you could watch different channels to the digital STB, but you'll still only be able to change the channel on the VCR (unless you get one of those remote sender yokes).

John Player

yeah i dont have a video and the dvd doesent control the tv's I was kinda hoping for some sort of box that i could plug the analogue cable from the wall into before it goes into the nTL digital box that would do it all for me.

The argos book does say that the ones they ahve now work with cable but i dont know weather to believe it.

i might pop into maplin on the way home and see what they have to say about it.

thanks for the info.

loyatemu

I very much doubt you'll find anything to do what you want to do. You'd effectively be setting up a low-powered TV transmitter\relay, which would probably be against the law.

zilog_jones

John Player wrote:

I was kinda hoping for some sort of box that i could plug the analogue cable from the wall into before it goes into the nTL digital box that would do it all for me.

Something with an analogue TV tuner in it would pretty much do that, i.e. a VCR or a DVD and/or hard disk recorder. You could tune in a channel on that, connect the output to your video sender, then you can at least watch a different channel on the other TVs.

The argos book does say that the ones they ahve now work with cable but i dont know weather to believe it

That probably means you can just plug them into the SCART output from your set top box (they don't have analogue cable in the UK like we do here), i.e. what you've done already, i.e. being limited to the one channel on all TVs.