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Hmm.. big space with lots of hard surfaces so quite reverberant. That's a bit of a challenge for a major sound system. Do you want to spend smart speaker money or home theatre money? Do you have anywhere that can be used as an A.V. hub point (houses amps and control gear) or do you want...

The simple answer is no. There isn't a way to get the screen image from a TV to your DVD recorder. The answer is to record directly in Windows (if you're using a PC). Once you have the video file, you can then decide how you want to process it for distribution. If there's anything that includes...

That's not a bad price for a caravan aerial either. Normally it's 'move the decimal point one place to the right'. ;) Satellite is generally the way to go, though. Most camp sites are in pretty parts of the country, and that means the back of beyond as far as Freeview goes. As long as you have...

That's it in a nutshell. I'm not having a pop, just pointing out the logical fallacy that's often presented in cases like this. It's the counterargument of "well, mine works fine" which then of course implies that all must work fine in every situation. When we look at the reviews for such...

The thing that all these stick antennas/aerials ignore is that transmitters use polarisation. Crystal Palace is a main transmitter. It uses horizontal polarisation. When you look at the roof top aerials trained on CP, they match the transmitter's horizontal polarisation. Here's a photo I took...

If you mean these sorts of things then I'd be tempted to give them a swerve. The construction will be similar to the coax fly-leads. That means that the cable is poorly shielded, and the internal joints between the cable's core and the pins is a solder joint (a weak point), and that an acidic...

Reading between the lines, and having fitted one or two wall sockets (;)), my guess is that you're concerned about kinking the cable as you try to fit it in the backbox space behind the wall plate. If making the junction box hole deeper isn't an option, you could try a 90 degree F plug...

Find if a neighbour has the same phone, or if a different make, then either way ask if you can look at how theirs is wired up. This will tell you which of the wires are used and which not (so you can cross them off the list). Next, which two wires for power, and which of the two is +ve and -ve...

That's the correct way round for your cat-sitting needs. One observation, this unit also scales the image to 720p or 1080p. If you're serious about buying one, try to find something that keeps the resolution as-is. All TVs have a built-in scaler. They have to because a TV can see a wide array...

I'm saying that, at best, a SCART to HDMI convertor is no different to plugging in the yellow composite connector to the TV's AV (composite) connection. It just costs more money and uses up a HDMI socket that might be better used for something else. You see, the picture from SCART has the...

That's the wrong way around. It's for a DVD player with HDMI to work with at TV that has SCART. Your brother's Glass doesn't have SCART.

I'd be amazed if you could find SCART on any recent LED or OLED TV 32" or bigger, so it's not just Glass but virtually all TVs. The last time it was relatively common is when we had Plasma and before LCD TVs went thinner with the advent of LED backlighting. If there's a collection of DVDs...

That's probably more to do with the TV operating system. It has to load and do stuff before the TV is ready to use. Sony's Android TVs always used to seem to take forever to start. Turn the TV on, go get a beer, come back, noodle on your phone for a while, and Oh! It's finally ready. Moving...

The product name CT100 has sort of been hijacked. The original version of CT100 for digital era installations had the dielectric made up of 5 hollow tubes. This is what's meant by semi-airspaced. There's a page on it with pictures from Wright's Aerials...

I suppose if @platforminc had an existing multiswitch switch installation then it would be a viable solution. As he's starting from scratch though it's less relevant The Arris 4K boxes can certainly cope with either legacy LNBs or wideband. Unless something has changed with the Q box specs, I...

I guess then it directs a quad in a way that emulates a quattro. So then, not that useful for @platforminc and his application. Was there another reason why you brought it up?

I haven't studied the documentation. The inputs look like those from Quattro to me. HH, HV, and so on. Like I said in an earlier post, satellite stuff is now on the periphery of what I do. Maybe you could advise @platforminc how he would connect this to feed 8 rooms with legacy signals? If he...

You're correct. There are a few solutions like this. Different ways to skin a cat. This one needs the signal from a Quattro LNB, or its pass-through via an older multiswitch installation. If the idea is to add a couple of feeds for a Q box onto an existing system without changing the main...

One or two of your local TV aerial guys could advise better. Local knowledge, and all that. The Octo is the simple solution, albeit with a lot of cable from the dish. Whether you go Octo or multiswitch, you still need a whole bunch of cables running to the rooms, so the extra cabling is really...

If I understand your question correctly then I think the answer is probably no, but I haven't looked too far into it to date so the situation may have changed. I think what you're asking is if there are any multi-output wideband LNBs. Is that right? As far as Sky Q installations go, you'd...