Wireless devices for other signals - do they exist?

Were you looking for the jfk's dragons den thread

tv is wireless, but yeah I know what you mean, you can get video senders, but they transmit one thing so for example the picture from the sky box and not the actualy aerial signal with all the channels, I've never seen one, I don't think there's a demand just because of the hassle and a lot of aerials are outside or in a loft where there's no mains supply to power it.

You have to be careful with wireless AV senders as they use the 2.4Ghz frequency which can can cause interference problems with wireless networking. If giving them a go best to use somewhere with a good returns policy.

John

Indeed, as an example I picked up a fairly expensive AV sender a few years back and my Xbox 360 completely ruins the picture, even when off! It's only when you take the plug out that the very noticeable banding on the screen goes away. My wireless internet doesn't interfere as much.

Did either of you two read what they said they don't want an AV sender they want a way of sending the full tv rf signal of all channels to another room.

Yes, I read their posts and I read yours - you were the one that suggested video senders, not me I simply was pointing out they can be problematic.

John

I said they're not what they wanted though, as in don't buy one by mistake.

thanks for comments so far, and yeah I do have a video sender somewhere but not what I am after. I got a scoket wired up in loft and have a booster\splitter and current aerial gives me freeview which is a bonus cos my area has poor reception but the mate who did that says it would take an awful long time to run the cables between walls as no easy way to tell in loft where walls are, and the walls dont match up between downstairs and upstairs so he just ran them outside the walls. Just got me thinking that surely there must be an easier way - he said he had thought he had heard of a pyramid type thing which sent the signal but didnt know if it was any good but guessed not as otherwise demand for getting aerial points in would drop!

Nikki

Given I was warning against the interference problems the devices cause so I'd hardly say that counts as a recommendation especially given it was in response to your post.

nikkiandmidgets - from a quick read around the main problem with an rf sender/receiver is the bandwidth it would require, a scart sender/receiver only needs a small amount to relay the single channel which is why wireless versions of them do exist.

John