Moving my computer about the house

[Dermott]

Hi all,
I am not a computer whiz kid, but any help would be appreciated. I am moving my computer from my attic office to a downstairs livingroom, 1, iwant to keep the clutter and bits to a minimum, so I plan to leave the printers where they are, 2, use the monitor as a tv. I know I need a bit for this, but will it take a signal directly fron a satalite dish ( free to air or sky) or do i need another sat box and umpteen remotes?

 

[centaur]

Generally speaking a monitor will need a TV tuner to enable it to render a tv picture, unless it has one built-in.

Apart from that, I'm really not sure I understand your description of which 'bits' will be where or how they'll actually be connected to enable them to work.

 

[ianf]

If you dont mind forking out a couple of hundred on the right kind of monitor...

I've got a couple of Aldi Goodmans 17" widescreen tvs, both of which can take RGB on a scart from a sky box, and also the signal from a monitor cable.

You'd need a wireless access & print server for your printers upstairs, and wireless for your pc downstairs too.

Failing that it'd be cheaper to get a USB Analogue TV tuner, and take the ant. out signal from your sky box and feed it to the usb tuner.

E.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Freecom-DVB-T-Hybrid-USB-Stick/dp/B000GK8AE2

Sort of depends really on where your sky and adsl are currently terminated, what your telly and current monitor are like, but a couple of hundred quid should get it sorted.

 

[Dermott]

I am using a 19 in lcd? monitor, I know I need a tuner, but do some of the tuners take a signal directly from the lnb or from a sat box hence a remote for the sat box and one for the tuner. I had hoped to run a long usb extension (maybe 10 meters) for the printers. am using 10m extension from the cable/dsm router for broadband.
TIA D

 

[ianf]

USB doesn't work well over long runs, max is about 5 if memory serves me. You can get extenders, but it'd be easier to plug the printers into a print server, and that into the router, and use them as network printers.

You can get DVB (freeview) decoders for the pc, but not ones for sky.

 

[Dermott]

USB doesn't work well over long runs, max is about 5 if memory serves me. You can get extenders, but it'd be easier to plug the printers into a print server, and that into the router, and use them as network printers.

You can get DVB (freeview) decoders for the pc, but not ones for sky.

I was afraid that might happen, got a 5m belkin in pcworld, and will see if it will work, I rang Hauppauge, and they recomended a WinTV-hvr-3000, to do what i want.
Thanks all
D