Coaxial cable. Some sort of repeater / adapter
Discussion
Taking the terrestrial video signal from the coax output and retransmitting the signal to your TV is probably illegal. As long as you have a strong TV signal to the house aerial and the internal house cabling to the coax output is decent quality, using a 12m length of coax cable will be ok. Just make sure it’s a good quality coax cable/connectors.
Alternatively, why not use something like an Amazon stick if there is an HDMI input on the tv? This will give the standard terrestrial services plus options for other streaming services.
Alternatively, why not use something like an Amazon stick if there is an HDMI input on the tv? This will give the standard terrestrial services plus options for other streaming services.
Retransmitting the full spectrum RF signal is classes as broadcasting, and broadcasting without a broadcast licence is definitely illegal. What you think might exist then really doesn't because the manufacturer/reseller and any users would end up in hot water.
Solutions:
- Cheap - Buy 12m of the double-barrel (shotgun) 'thin twin' cable as used in Sky installations. Separate the two parts. Do this carefully so as not to rip the outer sheath on either. You now have two 12m thin-but-double-shielded coax cables. These are better shielded than the crappy extension kits you buy from Argos / B&Q etc, so you stand a better chance of getting the signal around the room without picking up interference, and yet the cable is about half the diameter of standard RG6
- Lateral thinking - If the room is on the upper floor with a roof space above, have a think about installing a loft aerial and bringing the cable down in to the room above/nearby the location of the TV
- Proper solution - Get the local aerial fitter to either run a tap of the existing aerial, or to upgrade the house aerial to one that can support multiple TV points. Have a cable run outside and brought in to where your daughter's TV currently lives. Think what might happen if she decides to rearrange the room at some point in the future. Have an additional cable point installed at this secondary location
- Half-arsed bodged-but-expensive wireless solution - Buy a Freeview HD tuner/recorder (a recorder is better). Add a wireless HD HDMI sender kit. Buy the cheap one first. Bugger about trying to get it to work properly. Realise that buying cheap was a mistake. Go through the hassle of a return. Get your refund, then buy something more expensive on the recommendation of people whose standards you don't know. Realise that that too is a pile of garbage. Deal with the moaning and complaints why this is turning in to a fortnight-long saga. Spend in excess of £100 on a sender kit, and then tot up the total cost and realise that you could have had a whole new aerial system for the house installed for you in about half a day for less. Watch in dismay as your daughter doesn't use it because it's clunky/complicated/takes up too much space but she's nervous of telling you this directly because of all the hassle you went through to get it set up. :LOL
Solutions:
- Cheap - Buy 12m of the double-barrel (shotgun) 'thin twin' cable as used in Sky installations. Separate the two parts. Do this carefully so as not to rip the outer sheath on either. You now have two 12m thin-but-double-shielded coax cables. These are better shielded than the crappy extension kits you buy from Argos / B&Q etc, so you stand a better chance of getting the signal around the room without picking up interference, and yet the cable is about half the diameter of standard RG6
- Lateral thinking - If the room is on the upper floor with a roof space above, have a think about installing a loft aerial and bringing the cable down in to the room above/nearby the location of the TV
- Proper solution - Get the local aerial fitter to either run a tap of the existing aerial, or to upgrade the house aerial to one that can support multiple TV points. Have a cable run outside and brought in to where your daughter's TV currently lives. Think what might happen if she decides to rearrange the room at some point in the future. Have an additional cable point installed at this secondary location
- Half-arsed bodged-but-expensive wireless solution - Buy a Freeview HD tuner/recorder (a recorder is better). Add a wireless HD HDMI sender kit. Buy the cheap one first. Bugger about trying to get it to work properly. Realise that buying cheap was a mistake. Go through the hassle of a return. Get your refund, then buy something more expensive on the recommendation of people whose standards you don't know. Realise that that too is a pile of garbage. Deal with the moaning and complaints why this is turning in to a fortnight-long saga. Spend in excess of £100 on a sender kit, and then tot up the total cost and realise that you could have had a whole new aerial system for the house installed for you in about half a day for less. Watch in dismay as your daughter doesn't use it because it's clunky/complicated/takes up too much space but she's nervous of telling you this directly because of all the hassle you went through to get it set up. :LOL
Watching live TV via an aerial.
How quaintly retro.
Our TV is on the opposite side of the room from the aerial socket, but it doesn't matter, because the TV is not plugged into it.
The TV companies solve this problem for you, putting their drivel on the interweb, so you just need a wifi connection to the TV.
If you have an old un-smart TV ,then Amazon Firestick?
Obviously you need adequate broadband.
Actually we have satellite TV recorder box, so that feeds the TV via an HDMI cable. You can get wireless HDMI links.
So you could put a Humax recorder by the aerial socket and display it on the TV.
I'm not aware of a Humax-type recorder box able to transmit programmes on wifi, ours can receive internet TV over wifi.
You can build a Wifi 'TV server using a Raspberry Pi and a TV receiver adaptor 'hat'. Probably not for sane people.
Using an RF booster to transmit the aerial signal directly across the room would likely cause interference elsewhere, or it might transmit to your roof aerial and block itself.
You could however boost the signal with an amp if necessary, then use thinner coax to get around the room.
Or you could just try a decent indoor aerial next to the TV. I'd try that if I was in a strong signal area.
As it is, I live in a valley where aerials only get you 5 channels, hence the satellite dish.
How quaintly retro.
Our TV is on the opposite side of the room from the aerial socket, but it doesn't matter, because the TV is not plugged into it.
The TV companies solve this problem for you, putting their drivel on the interweb, so you just need a wifi connection to the TV.
If you have an old un-smart TV ,then Amazon Firestick?
Obviously you need adequate broadband.
Actually we have satellite TV recorder box, so that feeds the TV via an HDMI cable. You can get wireless HDMI links.
So you could put a Humax recorder by the aerial socket and display it on the TV.
I'm not aware of a Humax-type recorder box able to transmit programmes on wifi, ours can receive internet TV over wifi.
You can build a Wifi 'TV server using a Raspberry Pi and a TV receiver adaptor 'hat'. Probably not for sane people.
Using an RF booster to transmit the aerial signal directly across the room would likely cause interference elsewhere, or it might transmit to your roof aerial and block itself.
You could however boost the signal with an amp if necessary, then use thinner coax to get around the room.
Or you could just try a decent indoor aerial next to the TV. I'd try that if I was in a strong signal area.
As it is, I live in a valley where aerials only get you 5 channels, hence the satellite dish.
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