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Digital Radio to laptop

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  • 24-04-2008 4:50pm
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    Noviceman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm looking for your help. I've got ceiling speakers throughout my house and they're wired back to a central location (office). An amplifier with several inputs feeds them, works fine apart from radio, don't have perfect reception (analogue), so when it's amplified there's a lot of interference. I want to get digital radio through my sky, one way i could do this would to put a tv in this room, connect the sky to this and have audio feed into amp.

    Tv is bulky and would be only use in there, am looking for alternative, was looking for some sort of coax to usb connection to feed into laptop. Saw this http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=325503 but this is for free to air satelite and need to have cable connected directly to dish, can't do this coz of hollowcore, don't want to anyway, want sky. Want to use existing tv cable in room also with coax finish. Any suggestions of what i could use to connect to amp to take place of tv or something to feed into laptop.


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    #2
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,502 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Is there any particular reason that you have to get your radio signal via satellite? Why not explore getting a radio receiver for your laptop?
    FM or even DAB? Poor reception - use a loft aerial or something?


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    Noviceman
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    just thought digital would be the best quality, even if i get a loft aerial, it still won't be perfect, reception listening to radio is fine, it's just when it's amplified that there is a problem....

    digital feeder into laptop is an option i guess, what channels do you get? it's mainly british ones isn't it? sky has the irish channels, including 2fm, which wife wants during the day, another reason for wanting to use signal from sky...


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    Noviceman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Noviceman


    I just spotted this http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=317944
    and this http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?quicklinx=2NCS

    can i plug my sky signal into this from a wall plate via coax does anyone know?


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