Control Cable Box From Different Room

You won t get the fancy menu that you get with a box probably won t get all the channels and almost certainly won t get the same picture quality you would with a box.

Control cable box from different room.

Blu ray player or console to a screen across the room or even a couple rooms over planet 5d the aries pro is a very simple elegant solution sound vision it handled everything with no lag a critical accomplishment for the gamers out there. Don t have the cable box yet but the cable wire is ran to the tv behind the wall and i need a way to control the box from the main room while it sits in the other room. Not great given i have a combined family room kitchen situation and would like to be able to use the remote from much farther away. Connect flat screen to cable box in different room.

If there s nowhere to hide your cable box you can choose to put it in a nearby cabinet or closet and send the video signal and ir commands with a wireless hdmi kit. Usually the required kit provided by your cable company in addition to the box and remote control will also include both an hdmi and rf coaxial cable to connect to the appropriate tv. Send video from across the room. I don t believe you can share one box.

A multi room system can deliver music and video throughout your home but it won t necessarily give you much control over your gear from afar. Since digital cable tv signals are usually copy protected video recording fans will find it more difficult to record cable tv programs using a dvd recorder. If you ve installed in wall volume controls along with your speakers in a multi room music system for example then you can adjust the volume of whatever source you re listening to from your remote rooms. With all that as background when i was changing out the cable box recently i decided to look for a new solution for my family room and gave the next generation remote control extender a try.

However you can just run a coaxial cable into the back of 2 of the tvs.