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DDC

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Feb 7, 2002, 5:47:07 PM2/7/02
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Is the TV-link offered by Sky (or Philips, or anyone else for that
matter) any good? Does it serious degrade the signal from 1 TV to
another, or is it live-able-with?

Anyone who's had experience with one of these would be greatly
appreciated.

Regards,
DDC

Iain Miller

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Feb 7, 2002, 8:31:38 PM2/7/02
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Its fine....but only controls the digibox.....you might want to look at
something like Powermids if you wanted to control say a VCR as well.......


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DDC

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Feb 8, 2002, 9:05:36 AM2/8/02
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On a further point, how does it actually work?? Is it wireless and
transmits the signal by radiowave, or it is hardwired to the other sky
digibox?

You see, I can't have any more wires in my house so am only interested
in wireless solutions, eg. the Philips (?). Is this a problem?

Regards,
DDC

Iain Miller

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Feb 8, 2002, 10:04:08 AM2/8/02
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"DDC" <dodo...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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The TV link is a small device that sits in line with the Ariel cable at
(behind) the
remote TV its about 2cm x 2cm x 5cm long - The infrared eye is attached to
that by a thin wire and you just stick it on top of the TV.

Have a look at www.tvlink.co.uk for picture of it (click on the "catalogue"
button)

The other end of the ariel cable is plugged into the RF2 output on your
digibox. You then need to enable the RF2 output via the hidden services
menu. Doing that applies a voltage on the RF2 output which powers the remote
TV link(s). There is no hardware at the Digbox end. Very important that you
have the TV link in place on all TVs that are fed by this otherwise you will
be bunging 9V into the back of your remote TV which is not a great idea!

Its cheap & it works - but, as I said, only for Sky digital (although I see
there is now an upgraded version that will control a VCR as well)

If you have a VCR in line & want to put that across as well then you connect
the RF like this

Ariel in - VCR areil in
VCR areil out - Digibox ariel in
Digibox RF out 1 - main TV
Digibox RF out 2 - remote TVs with TV links.

You then need to SCART the digibox to the VCR for recording off Sky.

You can buy distribution amplifiers that are fine with TV link...some are
not so if you plan to use one then check it will be OK. Sky say TVLink will
only support one extra TV - I have it supporting 2 with no problems via a
small Global (same people who make TVLink) 4 way distribution amp.

If you are looking for a wireless solution to transmit the actual picture
then that is a whole different ball game...the TVLink system is only for
dealing with the IR (as are the Powermids I recommended before)

rgds

Iain


Chris Ashby

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Feb 8, 2002, 12:39:03 PM2/8/02
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Videosender/Digisender is what you want. I have it and it works very well.
Sends picture and remote signals.

check it here at Argos.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L29B1246 - 1 receiver

http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2AB5246 - 2 receivers


DDC

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Feb 8, 2002, 6:42:11 PM2/8/02
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Hey thanks for your help guys :-)

Chris, on the two websites you linked, it mentioned that there might
be a problem if the digibox was connected to AV equipment for the
'transmitter' TV. What exactly does this mean? I have a Sony
DAV-S500 (hey you gotta start somewhere) which controls all that - is

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