Page 1 of Video Sender £24.99 Aldi

Seem to recall this was pretty popular last time around

http://uk.aldi.com/special_buys/product_513.html



Watch digital satellite or cable TV in any room of your home with just one set-top box/TV receiver.
# Cordless transmission of audio (stereo) and video signals
# Also suitable for connection to graphics or TV boards with TV output
# Transmission of satellite receiver signals (TV and radio) to a second TV or audio appliance of set-top box signals, DVD or VCR signals and PC-MP3 files to your stereo equipment
# Transmission frequency 2.4 GHz
# Four channels to choose from 433 MHz upstream channel for existing infrared remote control
# 75 ohms aerial output (receiver)
# Modulation FM (audio and video)
# Range up to 100 metres (depending on environmental conditions)
# LED power indication
# Includes transmitter, receiver, two AC adaptors, audio/video cables RCA/RCA (audio L/R/video), double Scart adapter (Scart/RCA), adapter (Scart/RCA), adapter RCA /3.5mm jack connector, infrared extender
# Available in silver or anthracite.

Anyone know if these are able to control a Sky+ box ?

Spartacus

Bought 1 last time round. Works just fine with Sky+. Will also control 3 other IR devices. It has self adhesive IR "eyes" which you position near the IR window on your equipment.
HTH,

Big D

Can you use this to send the video from your PC to your TV? Basically if you watch a DVD on your PC can I use this to send the video/audio of the DVD to the TV downstairs?

Providing you have a TV card with TV-out in your PC then yes. I had mine set up the other way round, I was sending from the NTL box downstairs to the PC to use it as a digital video recorder. The picture quality wasn`t perfect, but certainly watchable. :)

I think I have a TV out on my graphics card, its a powercolor 9800 pro. You think that will work?

Yes, definitely.

I have a Powercolor 9200 Pro and the TV out on that works fine with my GigaAir transmitter, feeding the receiver on my Sony 32" widescreen downstairs. Make sure you use the little convertor cable that came with the card - it looks like a standard Svideo plug to RCA connector, but it has extra pins in the middle - you`ll just get a garbled, rolling black and white image with the normal 4 pin version.

It`s a good set up that allows us to watch .avi movies straight off the hard-disk using either DivX Player or WinDVD. Quality is good. Previously I was having to encode to VCD so they would work in the DVD player downstairs, which took ages (when it worked!).

I did consider buying one of the new crop of DVD players that play.avi files straight, but they all seem to have issues with codec support, so I figured if I use the PC I`ll always be able to update it.

Also I got sick and tired of trekking to the PC to control the playback, so ended up buying an RF remote (Marmitek MouseRemote). The AV sender will relay infrared remote signals, but I couldn`t find any software that would allow me to use one of my existing remotes, and I think they use a different protocol to IRDA anyway. You might have better luck, but the MouseRemote works brilliantly and was only £20 from LetsAutomate.

Quick bump for this as I now own one - very impressive indeed - works just fine with my Argos 3 SCART into 1 extender, so can watch a whole myriad of rthings on my TV upstairs now - DVDs, ntl, Freeview :)

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