|
The problem with Sky, Virgin and other cable boxes is that they can only be connected to one TV at a time. If you want to watch a late-night film in bed you have to get a very long aerial cable to stretch from the box downstairs to the TV in your room, but you won’t be able to use the remote control. You can of course get a second box, but that means paying another subscription.
Instead, you can buy a VERY simple kit to transmit the Sky/Virgin/cable signal wirelessly from the set-top box to any other TV in the house. There’ll be a very small drop in clarity in picture and sound but, frankly, it’s not massively noticeable unless the show is in high definition.
The kit is often called an audio/video sender, or sometimes an AV link or just a video sender. These are priced from £30 to £50 (see below for a selection of well known brands) and are available in any high street electrical shop. The kit contains a transmitter, receiver, power cords for each of these and a remote control link. The more expensive kits contain scart leads, so if you already have plenty of these then you won’t need any more. (You can also use this kit for DVD players.)
There is no software to install, so all you need to do is plug in the transmitter and receiver and connect the scart cables to start transmitting. Here is a quick run-down of how to set up your audio/video sender:
|
