running feed to second tv with loop out

[coffee1690]

whats the best way to do this , preferably not with any wireless/android/streaming would like an old fashioned wire connection...does the loop out work or would i be best with splitting the hdmi cable

 

[zfa]

Easiest way is to take leads from the AV out (red/white/yellow) and feed them into an RF modulator so the signal can go down normal coax. Example unit:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mercury-350-111-12V-250mA-Modulator/dp/B000M6SMKW

This one allows you to use the satellite remote control on the second TV and have it 'beam back' controls to the satellite receiver to change channels:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002R634DU

You can also get modulators that take HDMI and send out a digital channel so these are better quality (HD video, no interference) but they come in at about £200 or so.

EDIT: Of course you could just get an HDMI splitter and then run one HDMI to each TV, or run the three leads from the AV sockets to the secondary TV. I just assumed you might want to send it over coax as that is a setup many people had with older sky boxes.

 

[richsimpson]

does the second option work on non SKY for the IR control too?

 

[zfa]

Yeah, in fact it's built for non-Sky really (though would work with Sky). Just as it has a little IR receiver on one end of it, it also has a little IR transmitter on the other. You stick IR transmitter this in front of whatever you want to control (sometimes literally with tape so that it doesn't move...) and it beams out the same signal the IR receiver is getting in. Effectively it just acts like a little pipe sending remote control beams from the receiver to the transmitter. Controls anything at all.