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Is there a way to send HD video around the house from TV to TV with dongles?
Specifically, a wee thingy that would connect to the HDMI port on a Sky box or similar and beam it to another dongle connected to the HDMI port on a TV elsewhere.
Seems with the proliferation of Amazon Fire sticks, Apple TVs, Netflix etc this should be a thing. Am I missing something?
Right now we have a elderly Sky+HD box connected to TV by HDMI. A coax cable runs from the RF Out 15m ish to the other telly downstairs, where a Magic Eye thingy lets us control the box from downstairs. Result: easy control of Sky box but picture quality is poor. Can only watch one thing at a time but that's fine.
I would rather use the wifi network but can't find a way of doing it?
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Some solutions here-
https://www.keene.co.uk/extenders-av-over-distance/wireless-extenders.html
Not cheap.
Swap the coax for an HDMI lead?
Send by Wi-fi just from a Sky+ box? Don't think so. Its why they came up with Sky Q.
Other ways are NAS, or PC storage and Plex, but you'd have to spend some dosh.
I left the co-ax in (for remote use via magic eye) and ran a 15m HDMI from a splitter off the sky output.
The other output goes through an AV amplifier and then another splitter to main TV and projector.
Depends how easy it'd be to run an HDMI to the other location, but easiest solution maybe?
a Magic Eye thingy lets us control the box from downstairs
try ditching the Magic Eye and using the Sky app on your phone to control the box over Wi-Fi. I don't know if they're all created equal, but the one I had massively reduced the signal quality.
The cleanest way would be to upgrade to Sky Q... we had cables, splitters, Magic Eyes etc etc in order to get Sky (with Multiroom) to 4 rooms. Sky Q just does it wirelessly and (almost) seamlessly
Smart TV's and video on network storage (and or Netflix, Kodi etc).