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I have a virgin box feeding the tv in my living room and i want to set up a second tv in a second room - i'm happy to just have a freeview box in the 2nd room - but dont really want to run an aerial lead through the house to the aerial point. What are the options? Will a

Wireless av sender work and allow the 2nd tv to watch different channels at the same time as the main tv is being used?


Or is it best to get someone in to put in a new aerial point? Is that expensive - do they have to get up to the roof? Very confused by all the options!

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We had to have a second box installed that I was none too pleased about as it meant an even bigger bloody monthly bill. I am a bit caveman when it comes to techy talk (and chickens!) but surely there must be one of these wireless router things that can stream tv all over the place...


Anyone? I think we may need Huggie for this one..

Do you have a normal aerial going into the lounge? If so, you could just connect a freeview box to that, and then use an AV sender to transmit the output to the other room. You'd have to go back into the lounge to change channel though (unless you could hook up an infa-red blaster... getting a big complicated though).


The slingbox is an interesting suggestion, but is really designed for watching over the internet on a computer.


Honestly, your best bet is to do it properly and get a new aerial socket installed in the other room. You should be able to find someone who will do a neat job for a reasonable price (maybe ?100 or so).

You can link the two tellies together via an standard AV cable, and can get a special device that enables you to change channel on the second TV even if the Virgin box is in another room. However, this won't give you an HD signal. You can get wireless devices for HD, but they are quite expensive. Easiest option as people have said is a set-top aerial, which should give reasonable picture. However, we tend to suffer here as perversly signal is almost too strong as we live so close to CP.

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