No aerial socket in bedroom

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I want to put my LCD TV into my bedroom but it has no aerial socket so not sure what to do?

 

[professorhat]

Hi Scotsgirl, there are four options I'm aware of listed below in order which will give you the best TV picture:

1. Run another length of coax cable from your TV aerial on the roof down to your bedroom terminated at the wall in the normal way. This is obviously the most effort as well, but will give the same standard of picture as that in your main room.
2. Buy a video sender which will send the signal from the freeview box in your main room to your bedroom.
3. Buy a decent amplified indoor digital aerial. I have one in my spare room along with a signal amplifier - you have to twiddle the aerial to get some channels but I can pick up all the channels and I'm in a ground floor flat. Mind you, in Croydon, I'm pretty close to the Crystal Palace broadcasting tower...
4. Buy a DVD player for the bedroom and forget TV!

Last one is obviously a bit flippant, but depends how many DVDs you have!

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the options. Much appreciated.

QVC have One for All aerials so suppose I could try this as they have a 30 day money back guarantee.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi,personally if its for freeview if at all possible i would as the professor suggests run another length of coax from the roof but without a wall plate straight into your tv/freeview box, my friend installs aerials for a living and tells me that you can sometimes loose a certain amount of signal by having breaks or joins even if its just a wall plate and as i found out it was the difference between a good picture and a very good picture

 

[Anonymous]

[quote user="stu31"]Hi,personally if its for freeview if at all possible i would as the professor suggests run another length of coax from the roof but without a wall plate straight into your tv/freeview box, my friend installs aerials for a living and tells me that you can sometimes loose a certain amount of signal by having breaks or joins even if its just a wall plate and as i found out it was the difference between a good picture and a very good picture[/quote]

Thanks for that.

I was looking at the video sender as thought this would be less expensive and less hassle.

 

[southdownswolf]

[quote user="Scotsgirl"][quote user="stu31"]Hi,personally if its for freeview if at all possible i would as the professor suggests run another length of coax from the roof but without a wall plate straight into your tv/freeview box, my friend installs aerials for a living and tells me that you can sometimes loose a certain amount of signal by having breaks or joins even if its just a wall plate and as i found out it was the difference between a good picture and a very good picture[/quote]

Thanks for that.

I was looking at the video sender as thought this would be less expensive and less hassle.[/quote]

If you buy a video sender, make sure you can take it back if not entirely happy. Some of them can have appalling picture quality, I had a Philips one, sending the signal from my lounge to my bedroom, directly above. It was fine when I didn't move, but as soon as I moved it caused interference! Have heard that wireless network signals can affect the quality, but this could be false, I haven't tried a sender since being wireless networked.