wez_sti

What are the cheap options for me to get Telewest in the bedroom??


It's just off the lounge where the telewest box is if that makes a difference...?

Thanks

Wez

Dave1980

£15 a month for another box. got one at home.

or if you can link up to the main aerial for the tv you can run the telewest through a signal booster and connect both tvs to that.
did that for about a month then bought a box as i got fed up with changing the channels downstairs,

wez_sti

Hmmm, changing channels would be a PITA, though prob wouldnt use it often enough to justify £15 a month....

thinking the signal booster plan could be a go-er...

you can get boxes that carry remote signals to other rooms cant you?


hmmmmm

davegtt

Can you buy another box off ebay and split the feed coming into the original box between the 2 boxes? Im interested in doing this for my place. getting peed off withhaving to sit up late if theres something good on say ITV2 (like last night wanted to watch Highlander but there was a good chance Id fall asleep on the sofa.

OllyK

You can get a wireless video sender, or with SKY at least you can use the spare RF out to connect to another TV and use a magic eye to send remote signals back to the box to change channel etc - obviously you have to watch the same channel on both TV's

Nezz10

The other way of doing it (which is quite tricky) is open up your current box and solder on small wires to each of the pins that connect on to the card.

Feed these wires to another box and solder them onto the same connections inside. You should then be able to watch two different channels at the same time.

I know its not a novice job but it would work. To get round opening the boxes you can buy the card recepticles from RS/Farnell etc. You would need to splice this on to two outputs and feed to them off to the two boxes. You would also need to buy the PCB boards that are the same fitment as the cards so you could just push them in like normal but they have terminals at the back to connect the incomming wires to.

Hope that makes sense!!

Nezz10

http://www.makinterface.de/index_e.p.../univpcpe.php3

Kinda gives an example of what I mean about the cards with the connections coming off the back.

HankScorpio

Sign up for the TV Drive in your lounge, you get installation for free if you keep your existing box and it's a fiver a month for the second box (the original one).

Maybe not the cheapest but at least it wouldn't be a bodge.

Proby521

iTrader: (1)

From my experience, I dont run a signal booster, just connect two tv's from telewest box. One from scart, one from RF out. No pic quality problems. Maybe if both were from RF I would get problems.

Proby