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[brixtonbrood]

Problem: We haven't watched a movie since heaven knows when.
In theory we have two hours free every evening between 8:30 and 10:30 to do so, but at least half an hour of that needs to be spent in the kitchen cooking and at least half an hour afterwards cleaning up the debris of the day loading dishwasher and feeding cats. We have a telly in the kitchen but no DVD or video player - we have a portable DVD player which could be in there, but I don't like sitting in there eating, and switching a DVD from one room to the other as we scoot back and forward would get very tedious. This is getting more urgent now that summer is on us and all the decent terrestrial telly is on holiday.

Radio Times is advertising boxes for 50 quid that your fix to all your TVs that broadcast your DVDs (and satellite and cable, which we don't have) around the house.

The question is - does anyone have something like that? does it work?

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I had a £100 video sender that worked fine diagonally across the house, so plenty of walls and floors. It also had a IR back-channel, so you could use the remotes from the far room. It had dish antenna to focus the signal. A general broadcast could have problems.

Yes, and yes

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I had a box set up by the TV downstairs to relay the cable TV signal upstairs (it didn't manage to send the cable remote signal back down and since I had it inline to the VCR and it was degrading the signal, I eventually took it out again)

I've got a better one since, but it's still sitting in the box as I ended up moving the cable box upstairs and having a TVDrive fitted downstairs (cable box with built-in hard disk)

The ones I had/have require a receiver (didn't think they'd be allowed to have a broadcast unit ... must look at the Radio Times to see what this new thing is!)

Re: Yes, and yes

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

The RT thing is indeed 2 units, one for broadcast, one for reception.