Sky launches 'Sky Gnome' wireless device

quiggs1000

Interesting, lets you listen to sky around the house...

http://www.media247.co.uk/skydigital/newsarchive/2005/08/sky_announces_s.php

Mossy Monk

nice idea, i'd be interested in one of those

monkeyfudge

Great. I'll be able to listen to Babestation from the comfort of my bathroom.

Mossy Monk

roffle

shabbyroad

BRILLIANT
this is just what I have been looking for.
There are some very good radio stations on Sky (in particular BBC 6music)

DMC

Yes. At last.

I want one.

Genghis

Hold ye're horses there lads! Looking at the limited information available, that looks to me like an FM transmitter. While admittedly the range is small, any such device is illegal in Ireland. It is for the same reason you cannot pick up an i-trip in any Irish store.

So don't expect Sky to market these to their Irish subscribers. That's not to say you won't be able to buy one off the net, of course.

PS they could've made this a little more interesting by adding an audio-only satellite receiver, which subscribers could have installed on their Quad / Twin LNB and which could then act as an independent satellite Radio service. More interesting, imho.

Greenman

Genghis wrote:

Hold ye're horses there lads! Looking at the limited information available, that looks to me like an FM transmitter. While admittedly the range is small, any such device is illegal in Ireland.

Who really cares!!!!
Been running 2 FM transmitters for personal use for years at our house, range between 50 and 100 metres.
The wife has her FM transmitter connected to her Humax so she can listen where ever with her baby AM,FM walkmam.
Mine is connected to a FTA receiver, as I type I'm listening to Five Live on FM quality, great!!!!

Drag00n79

I'll be interested in getting one of these alright. Wonder what they'll cost?

Genghis

Greenman wrote:

Who really cares!!!!
Being running 2 FM transmitters for personal use for years at our house, range between 50 and 100 metres.
The wife has her FM transmitter connected to her Humax so she can listen where ever with her baby AM,FM walkmam.
Mine is connected to a FTA receiver, as I type I'm listening to Five Live on FM quality, great!!!!

Wow, can you be my hero!

The point I was making was not that people will not be able to use them here it is that people won't be able to source them here as easily in the UK as Sky and all their distributors can't sell them as it is illegal to sell them here.

PS for the last 4 years I have been doing the same as you - hooking up a small FM transmitter to the Digibox to give me FM radio around the house, and you are right, it is great.

lawhec

FM transmitter in the UK w/out a broadcast licence are also illegal as well!

Drag00n79

According to someone posting on Digital Spy they will be sold for €150. A bit steep!

Greenman

Genghis wrote:

PS for the last 4 years I have been doing the same as you - hooking up a small FM transmitter to the Digibox to give me FM radio around the house, and you are right, it is great.

Point taken, maybe it'll be on the 2.4ghz which really reacts badly to microwave ovens and the like.

Genghis, FM transmitters connected to sat receiver hifi and pc for around the house is not only great its heaven if you're radio mad like me.

Good luck with your system!!!!

Ulsterman 1690

FM transmitter in the UK w/out a broadcast licence are also illegal

True and the UK authorities are generally far more strict about these (stupid) laws than COMWRECK and is predecessors

Itrips are openly on sale in certain shops in Dublin (I know because I have one ) In fact onetime that they were being given away as competition prizes on a certain Irish commercial radio station

There is a frequency up in the 800 or 900 MHz range allocated for cordless headphones this is probably what the sky gizmo uses. If there is a seperate reciever box with it then it almost certainly isint using the FM broadcast band

Whats really stupid is that Maplin can quite legally sell an "FM modulator" that fits between your car radio and its aerial (Its crap though as it only works on two fixed frequencies) which probably radiates as much RF power as any ITrip but because it doesnt radiate intentionally its regarded as okay

watty

A video sender for €50 Lidl, €100 Argos will do "Radio" around the house. The RX unit can run of batteries instead of plugtop and many will drive "walkman style 32Ohm" head set with volume in cable direct with a dual phono/RCA plug to 3.5mm stereo jack socket adaptor. You also have remote control via its IR sensor and option of portable LCD screen!

Portable Baby intercom too, but they are only mono.