Control Cable Box From 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.

Control cable box from different room.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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. I don t believe you can share one box. By spongebobvt jan 28 2008 5 19am pst just wondering if there is any way to have my cable box receiver in a different room as my flat screen tv. Connecting a cable box wirelessly to multiple tvs at home.

Connect flat screen to cable box in different room. 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. 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. 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.

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