[RFS]

Hi
I'm thinking of investing in a reasonably priced pair of Digi-AV senders for my new house... just for a couple of portables in the bedroom/conservatory (will have Sky Multi-room in the office and obviously one box for the main TV)...

I am completely clueless about the reliability of these things, whether they will cause any conflict with wireless broadband...

I did a quick google and the flavour of the month seems to be Digisender X7 and I can probably spring to £100 from the local Maplins ...

Are these reliable and (more importantly) easy to set up?

Anyone's personal references would be really useful, and perhaps price guides if over the £100 bracket... prepared to be a little flexible for something that won't kibosh my wireless internet connectivity!

[niall campbell]

one sky box can be controlled in separate rooms using a magic eye or several magic eyes

do you fancy wiring it up as more stable

a wireless sender with 4 channels would be what your after

[RFS]

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Originally Posted by niall campbell

one sky box can be controlled in separate rooms using a magic eye or several magic eyes

do you fancy wiring it up as more stable

a wireless sender with 4 channels would be what your after

To be honest I would be completely useless at wiring anything up ... partner might be better but I would not... no, make that WILL not trust him with anything remotely drilly around my new house!!!

I've just rung the vendor for the new place...apparantly there are aerial points in the main and 2nd bedroom (but that won't have a TV) and a loft aerial for the conservatory...

I will probably have the two portables in the main bedroom and conservatory... so I guess if I look at Magic Eye... what connects where to enable the signal to be transmitted to these two TVs? I notice it's considerably cheaper!

[niall campbell]

well if your having two sky boxes it makes it easier!

get the sky man to run the wires

all you need is one extra remote and magic eye for bedroom. Its great watching something you recorded in bed !

so living room will feed bedroom with magic eye

put second box in conservatory ( multiroom , £10 per month charge ) and if you cant decide what to watch one person can watch another channel in there. Even better if you have kids. You could put a second feed to kitchen and again with magic eye control it in there

its the same set up as I have .... two boxes controlled in 4 rooms


however using a distribution amp that allows 9 volts to travel through ( this is how magic eye works ) you could have one box and be able to change sky in all rooms if they have magic eyes in them, but you have to agree in what to watch

http://www.beststuff.co.uk/slx4b.htm

[RFS]

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Originally Posted by niall campbell

well if your having two sky boxes it makes it easier!

get the sky man to run the wires

all you need is one extra remote and magic eye for bedroom. Its great watching something you recorded in bed !

so living room will feed bedroom with magic eye

put second box in conservatory ( multiroom , £10 per month charge ) and if you cant decide what to watch one person can watch another channel in there. Even better if you have kids. You could put a second feed to kitchen and again with magic eye control it in there

its the same set up as I have .... two boxes controlled in 4 rooms


however using a distribution amp that allows 9 volts to travel through ( this is how magic eye works ) you could have one box and be able to change sky in all rooms if they have magic eyes in them, but you have to agree in what to watch

http://www.beststuff.co.uk/slx4b.htm

Ahhh ok ... well for me 2nd (multi-room) box is in the office upstairs so that can probably feed bedroom, and main box is in the front room and can serve Conservatory...

I was going to wait to place the Sky order until the vendor had left - but seeing as every tom dick and harry has been sending mail to the new place... I suppose I can go ahead and order it. So much for trying to be sensitive to his miffed 90 year old mum!

I don't suppose that Sky actually do Magic eyes, because you're right - it if's being wired in (professionally!) it may as well all be done at the same time, and then when the MASS redecoration starts they can work round it!!!!

Thanks for your advice... that's great stuff.

[Ellie666]

i recently tried one of the philips senders - they work great in principle but i found i had to disable it to get my wireless network to work properly

[RFS]

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Originally Posted by Ellie666

i recently tried one of the philips senders - they work great in principle but i found i had to disable it to get my wireless network to work properly

Yeah... I don't remember where I saw it, but I saw that 2.4GHz wireless senders did sometimes fritz out wireless networks too.

[Nigel Goodwin]

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Originally Posted by RFS

Yeah... I don't remember where I saw it, but I saw that 2.4GHz wireless senders did sometimes fritz out wireless networks too.

In my experience they wipe each other out, I don't advise using wireless senders at all.

[RFS]

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Originally Posted by Nigel Goodwin

In my experience they wipe each other out, I don't advise using wireless senders at all.

Niall recommeded the Magic Eye, and I see that Maplins have a Sky link that plugs into aerial sockets (which I will be off checking later this week before moving in)... that certainly seems to be the most reasonable option and thinking about it - it's for when I'm eating (as the dining table is in the conversatory) and up in my room as the office will have the second digibox anyway.

Thanks all for input!