Scart and how to connect 2nd TV ?

[Donwill]

What's the best way of connecting a second TV which is in another room, to receive Terrestrial, DVD, Sky, 2nd digital sat receiver. At the moment I have Sky, 2nd Dig Sat, DVD, and Main TV all connected together via scart with the terrestrial aerial connected to the sky receiver and RF outputting to the second TV in kitchen, quite a long coax lead ( approx 15ft). In the kitchen I can receive all terrestrial, all Sky but not DVD or 2nd dig sat receiver I want to receive on the kitchen TV whatever we are watching on the main TV in lounge.

Sorry it appears a bit garbled, the wine was very good last night so we opened a second bottle. :-[

Don

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If you're happy with the quality in the kitchen from the Sky box RF feed, you could add RF modulators to the DVD and second STB. But you'd likely need to fiddle with the output channels to fit them all in. So make sure to buy ones which allow the output channel to be easily adjusted. Something like these:-

[Usenet Nutter]

I have a TV and DVD player and Sky + Box in the living room and in the bedroom I have a 2nd TV and DVD Player. I have a coax lead from the living room to the 2nd TV and using a second Sky Remote I can operate the Sky+ Box in the living room ....to do this you need to go in to the installers menu and activate the second RF Output and fit a Magic Eye to the second TV which allows the remote to work . I also get analogue on the second TV .

Is this the same as what you want to achieve ? Dunno how you can see in the kitchen what's playing on your first room dvd player. I'd suggest buying a second dvd player to use in the kitchen .

[Dave Liquorice]

That is one way but is not easy to do well without fairly specialised equipment to ensure all the (RF) signals are roughly the same level.

If PAL over RF is fine quality wise I'd look to see if the main TV has a SCART that carries what is being shown on it's screen. Pickup the baseband video and the audio from that and feed it to the kitchen set video/audio in (on it's SCART or phono connectors). 15' shouldn't be a problem.

This may mean the main TV has to be on to watch on the kitchen set and it will be tied to what is on the main set.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Getting easier in analogue switch off areas.

[Donwill]

Many thanks for all the suggestions, I have decided to go down the route as suggested by Dave Plowman. Mind you, I don't know how to future proof it to cater for HD if and when I can afford it. The kitchen TV is a relatively recent addition which claims to be "HD Ready" whatever that means?

Cheers Don

[dennis]

It means it has a HDMI connector, which is what you should use if the rest of the kit has them.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You won't get HD over those RF modulators. Barely SD. ;-)

[Donwill]

So how do you get HD over a home network.? Do you know of a web site that gives info on that topic please. Don

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Donwill saying something like:

I'm using an old PC as an HTPC and streaming via Videolan from my main PC which has most of the movie material on it - it also streams a live satellite picture from DVBDream to VLC on the HTPC . Of course if I can be arsed I can simply transfer any material via disc or LAN and watch it non-live, later. The network is well up to HD transfer rates, but the PC isn't, if you see what I mean.