Hi I was wondering if anyone knew if there was wireless cable tv. Not a wireless video sender. I want to be able to have my cable in my garage go directly up to my room wirelessly so I dont have to re-wire the house.
Also can someone explain what a video sender is. From my understanding one end goes in a tv and whatever you are watching on that tv will get transmitted to the other tv.
Hi I was wondering if anyone knew if there was wireless cable tv. Not a wireless video sender. I want to be able to have my cable in my garage go directly up to my room wirelessly so I dont have to re-wire the house.
Also can someone explain what a video sender is. From my understanding one end goes in a tv and whatever you are watching on that tv will get transmitted to the other tv.
A video sender is a legal way of wirelessly linking a video source (like a Sky/Freeview/Digital cable box, a DVD player, or a VCR) with a TV without having to cable between them. It uses a small microwave transmitter and receiver (and can often use a different radio link to allow the remote control to be used in the remote room to control the source)
They do interfere with some wireless computer networks, and they can also be interfered with by some microwave ovens. They are quite short range, and many have little directional panels that you need to point in the right direction for the best results. Most of them have a choice of 4 channels - so that you don't interfere with your neighbours, or can reduce the chance of PC wireless or microwave oven interference, if they also have a video sender. (Both transmitter and receiver have to be set to the same channel)
If your cable box has a SCART plug on the back (or a Composite video output on a phono socket, along with audio outputs on phonos) then you connect this to the video sender transmitter, and then plug the receiver into a SCART or composite video socket on your TV in the other room. (Most don't use the aerial socket - though you can buy adaptors if you need to do this)
If you want remote control, then you connect a small cable to the video sender transmitter, and at the end of this is a small infra red blaster that you put next to the infra red sensor on the box you want to remotely control from the other room.
The video sender receiver in the room you want to watch in needs to be in a position that you can point a remote control at. It picks up the remote control signals, and sends them to the transmitter box, so it can control the device it is video sending from. Some even come with a small multi-function remote control, so you don't have to keep taking the remote from room-to-room.
Of course this only works if you don't want to watch DIFFERENT cable channels in both rooms (as all you are doing is sending the same cable box outputs to two TVs) ... If you want to do that then you need to get a second cable box installed, which will cost extra to rent.
This may also not work with analogue cable - as many analogue boxes use a different system (not SCART or Composite video) to connect to the TV.
In Ireland we do have wireless cable TV, called MMDS (multipoint microwave distribution service), cable TV using a microwave system - you still need to wire the house internally to the rooftop aerial though, and it offers a paltry twelve analogue channels.
I don't think this is what you are looking for, and I don't think MMDS is offered anywhere in the UK anyway.
In Ireland we do have wireless cable TV, called MMDS (multipoint microwave distribution service), cable TV using a microwave system - you still need to wire the house internally to the rooftop aerial though, and it offers a paltry twelve analogue channels.
I don't think this is what you are looking for, and I don't think MMDS is offered anywhere in the UK anyway.
Yes - but MMDS isn't really cable TV, it is microwave TV. This is very similar to satellite TV without the satellite - as it simulates the LNB IF system to a degree.