Alternative Media MVP

[Edwin10]

Hi,
just wanted to let you know that I'm very please with my new setup. I love GB-PVR, but I found the Media-MVP responsive a bit slow and wanted to extend GB-PVR into my bedroom.

I bought a Marmitek Megavideo 55, which enables me to convert the TVout of my PC into a signal on the coax cable. This signal can be configured with a large number of different frequencies. I then programmed this frequency on both my TV in the livingroom and the bedroom.

I tried the IR extenders from Marmitek, which can be bought optional with the Megavideo 55. The only drawback is that you can only use 1 IR extender at the same time. So, If I enable the IR extender in the livingroom, I have to turn it off before I can use the one in the bedroom. And guess what, I forget it every time.

Another drawback, and the most important one, is that the IR return signal is blocked by my antenna-amplifier.

So, to make a long story short, I bought 2 Marmitek Powermid XL senders, and 1 receiver. It works like a charm. No turning on/off, it just works.

And because I put the GUI of GBPVR directly on my coax cable, the responsiveness is very fast.

For those of you out there who don't have a Media-MVP yet and/or those who want an alternative, I can highly recommend it.

The only thing this setup lacks is the abbility to start 2 sessions independantly. Because the GUI is send to the COAX cable, the GUI is the same on all TV's. So I cannot watch 1 program on one TV, and another show on the other. But this is no showstopper for me.

Kind regards,
Edwin

[onestar]

Exactly, well probably different makes, same setup. My PVR is in a central room, which feeds out to the rest of the house via a RF-COAX feed, using a Maplin (UK) Scart/Video to RF output converter.

I already have it such that the main feeds (aerial and satellite) come into that room, daisy chain all devices to each other, the PVR into that chain, and then all feed into a distribution amplifier that goes onto all the other rooms. IR extender means control is alway remote.

Also means there is no mess in the other rooms of having a computer and associated cabling.