Wireless TV - Any Good?

frying_pan_cat · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:27

I'm looking to install a TV in a room which does not have an aerial socket in at the moment so I was looking at using a wireless TV transmitter instead of running a new cable all the way through the house which would be a PITA tbh. So does anyone have any experience with wireless TV transmitters, good vs bad points compared to cabled, and any recommendations about which model to get?

Thanks

frying_pan_cat · 18 Feb 2010 at 14:21

Anyone?

TBirdUK · 18 Feb 2010 at 14:32

If you are talking about the standard transmitters then I would avoid - running on 2.4ghz they are seriously effected by wireless networking or microwave ovens (even next doors) and are un-usable. I have found even the 5 Ghz ones to suffer from interference!

PlumpMonkey · 18 Feb 2010 at 15:20

^^^ This.

I had one of the 2.4Ghz jobs. It pretty much killed the wireless connection to my PS3. Even with the transmitter being about 6 foot away from the PS3 it was so slow and disconnected frequently.

Also cordless phones and microwaves messed with the signal badly.

Bobcat · 18 Feb 2010 at 15:30

I also agree with the comments about them above, the 2.4ghz range that the video/audio senders operate on just kills any Wi-Fi etc, which made staying on-line and watching tellie something that is not possible, and the quality was not up to much either.

On the other hand, if you have a media-pc to connect to the tellie, you can watch most of the free-view stations here - http://www.tvcatchup.com/guide.html

frying_pan_cat · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:28

Looks like I'll have to skip that then, but Bobcat's suggestion is something I never thought of. I have spare parts lieing around so I may just set them up in a hptc case and use that as a dvd etc too

Thanks for the replies guys