Help URGENT! no aerial in bedroom advice needed

:Hi
Just bought a 26 inch digital LCD tv with FREEVIEW and FULLl HD for bedroom but do not have an aerial in this room, we live in a ground floor flat in a small block of just 8 flats and have a communal aerial system (newly installed about 4 years ago)but only have a tv aerial socket for tv/+ virgin cable box in living room, I am not at all technical so would appreciate the simplist and best way to provide good quality picture & reception on the new tv in the bedroom ( a distance of approx 6 mtrs away) Also would it be possible to run cable tv from the one set top box in the living room through to the tv in the bedroom?. I am anxious to sort this ASAP for my elderley mother who is not at all well, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Lexy

You may need to make a small hole on the partition wall between the living room and the bedroom and run a cable through to the bedroom. Assuming it's not a load-bearing wall and your lease does not forbid you to cause 'wounds' to the wall then you should be fine. That, I think, is the simplest solution.

A slightly more involved solution is to take the signal from your living room and feed it onto a distribution amplifier (one with 2 or more amplified outputs). You could then use one of the outputs for your living room TV and one of the other outputs to your bedroom (through a small hole in the wall).

I'm not a qualified profesisonal in these matters so i'll bow to any superior authorities out there!

Hi
Thank you for the swift reply, I will definately try try your method but will have to go through two walls as there is a small box room inbetween, I have read posts saying some cableing is not very good can you recommend a good quality coaxial cable as I want to ensure I can pick up as many as the freeview channels as possible.
Once again thank you for your help it is very much appreciated.

Lexy

Most cables named as digital or satellite are suitable.And use decent plugs.

Hi
Thank you for your reply, I intend to get a good quality digital cable & plugs but being a complete novice at this not sure what to ask for plus I will also need a splitter do you think I should get an amplified one to ensure a stronger signal ( I dont like the idea of splitting it in half to each tv)

Lexy

splitting in half should be fine

Do it the cheap way first, use a splitter, if you have a reasonably strong signal it will work.

If it doesn't give an adequate signal, then fit a powered multiway amplifier.