Does it exist?

I was thinking of mounting our lcd tv on the wall in the living room but I don't know what to do about all the wires. I guess my options are to have all the wires hang down and look ugly or put a hole in the dry wall and run them inside the wall.

Does any one know of an adaptor I could get that would send a signal wirelessly to the tv? The transmitter would have the dvd, vcr and cable/sat plugged into it. Then it would send the audio/video to a receiver plugged into one of the input ports on the tv, either composite, vga or dvi.

 

Nice idea, but I've never heard of one.

 

Depends, are you talking a standard signal (NTSC) or HD? A Rabbit comes to mind, I've also bought UHF transmitters to allow me to watch TV whilst doing BBQ outside, and other places.

 

WOW! TV must really be important to you

 

but i think try some of this
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but it needs more work
but surely reliable and safe


infoseeker

 

@Bill - Do you have a link to a rabbit? I guess it would need to be hd to take advantage of the lcd.

@Infoseeker - My main concern are the wires coming down from the tv. Even if I find the device I was thinking of I would still have at least the power cord coming down from the tv. I figured for that I could just pick up one of those anti=trip covers for running wires across a floor and just paint it the same color as the wall. I wonder if they make those big enough to cover a power cord, s-video, rf cable and component video (or is it composite I forget, the one with the red,blue,green video connectors).

 

When I wire new homes, I run the wires down the wall.You can hide all your dvd,cable box,ect.in a cabnet and best buy sell a remote that can run every thing.I'm doing this house now that all the componets are in another room. The only thing on the wall with the LCD tv is a small eye that is run with a cat.5 wire.

 

I'm not sure if I read you right but you said "run the wires down the wall". If you mean run them inside or outside the wall, that is what I am trying to avoid. And the eye you mention, that is for the remote controls receiver correct?

 

I run them in the wall, The eye is for a remote that can control everything.( Best Buy has them)Your power might be the only problem.But if you have a plug under were the tv you can jump off that plug and install another one behind the TV on the wall.I've not seen a wireless for what you want,If there is you still have to get power to the TV?.

 

Yeh the way we've done it is run through the wall. Not as hard as it seems, but we did it when we were decorating so covered up with paper and filled in the gap so unless you're down to do that....

If you do, I'd make sure you have every cable you want for future put in.

 

Yeah I knew I would still have the power cord but that wouldn't be hard to hide with a floor strip thing mounted to the wall. It gets a bit more difficult to make it look good trying to cover up half a dozen wires.

Through the wall is probably my last option. We like the convenience of rearranging the living room every now and then and there are 3 walls we use to put the tv/entertainment center against.

 

I haven't seen a rabbit in years, but UHF transmitters abound. Here is a link to one on eBay I found, total search time 10 seconds.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wireless-UHF-Au...5QQihZ008QQcategoryZ32840QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

What you need is a TV transmitter using the HD standard, while I haven't seen any of those I'm sure they exist. I'm not even sure what the new HD standard is called. You will also need an external reciever, like a VCR or whatever to provide the signal to rebroadcast. Those exist everywhere. I bought a stand alone TV tuner for my mom and her computer a while ago, complete with remote, from Tiger Computers. The current broadcast standard in the USA is NTSC, but that will change in a few years.

"WOW! TV must really be important to you "

There was a time. Don't get much time nowdays, but my house is wired and controlled where I can send 6 different feeds to any room or any device on my entertainment center. This includes but is not limited to my computers (C128 or PC box), cable, TV antenna, VCR, DVD recorder (used to be VCR2). If you count the TV Xmtr (think wireless) that is 7. In addition I have coax Base 2, 10BaseT, and wireless ethernet. I had a local area network in my home over 15 years ago, to support my BBS. Before that I ran a BBS out of a hospital that had 5 nodes and used ARCnet, thanks to my now deceased brothers expertese.

This is, after all, Major Geeks.

 

grrr.... i have some other things posted here (kevmcq7) that would have helped you but no one can see them... grrr...