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Philips SBC VL1200 Wireless TV Link | |
Brand: Philips EAN: 8710101641584 Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Model: SBCVL1200 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Philips Sales Rank: 40149 Studio: Philips Accessories:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The Philips SBC VL1200 Wireless TV Link is an excellent innovation of interest to any household with more than one television. The premise is relatively simple, enabling you to send signals from video sources from one part of the house to another without the need for trailing cables about your home. The value of this is best explained by example, which will also enable us to define our preliminary testing of the product. We connected the transmitter box to our DVD player and satellite box, passing through to the main television. We placed the receiver unit by a second TV, located upstairs. We were then able to watch satellite, or DVD movies on either our primary, secondary TV, or both. You can even use the remote controls upstairs to operate the video source. You can have your primary television watching a different video source, or even on standby, while you watch something else on your second TV. It’s as simple as that. Setting up the equipment is straightforward and can be done in less than five minutes. Take your receiver unit, plug it in and connect the supplied SCART lead to your secondary television. Next take the transmitter, plug it in to the mains and connect by SCART lead to your television. You can then connect the SCART leads from your choice of up to two video sources (eg: DVD/Satellite/VCR ) and connect them to the two input sockets on the back of the transmitter. The transmitter should ideally be placed directly on top of the video sources used, so that the infrared eye can send commands from the remote controls. If this isn’t convenient, as was the case with our test setup, a remote control extender cord is supplied, which is a cable with a jack plug that connects to the transmitter that has two infrared eyes that you can stick to the front of your video sources in front of the IR sensors. The transmitter and receiver units are elegantly styled and discrete, each measuring 204x168x65mm, finished in silver, with a short flip-up aerial. The quality of reception is excellent, so that you can happily watch DVD movies on your second TV without feeling that you are compromising on image quality. The sets are vulnerable to interference, as with any RF based product, but in our testing we experienced minimal problems – a minicab visit temporarily caused some picture and sound noise, but nothing that prevented acceptable viewing. The Philips SBC VL1200 Wireless TV Link is a well implemented solution that achieves what it sets out to with aplomb. The package comes supplied with the transmitter and receiver boxes, two SCART leads, the remote control extender cord, two AC power adaptors and manual. You can separately purchase Philips SBC VL1205 additional receivers, if you want to hook up to more televisions. --Jason Weston Philips See more information on Philips SBC VL1200 Wireless TV Link at Amazon UK or at Amazon.com Average Rating:  Rating:  - Nearly gave it one star - but found guilty party (X-Box)Connected it all up to our Panasonic 14GV2 (2nd TV) and got dreadful interference. Tried differnt channels still no change. Process of elimination and we found the cause was my son's X-Box power supply. Had to use the supplied IR sensor placed between the On button and the Message light on our Sony Digibox with all the wire hidden under the digibox and the sensor pointing away from the wire ie towards you as you look at the digibox. Rating: - Fantastic!This unit is really great & easy to install. I plugged my dvd recorder (which has sky running through) into it then out into my 1st TV, then plugging the reciever into my 2nd TV I can control there both my DVD recorder including ALL the features (with it's remote), and all the features of my Sky box! (also with it's remote). The only drawback is that it wouldn't work on my 14" portable, I just get a blue screen, but it is a cheap portable so maybe that's why. If I had a function to turn off the blue screen (you can on some TVs) then perhaps it would work. The TV it's works on is a 28" Ferguson widescreen. Rating: - SBC1200I bought this off Amazon last year. It was very easy to set both boxes up. The transmitter downstairs with the receiver upstairs feeding my restored 34 year old colour tv via the scart on a vcr. Excellant sound & picture quality from the freeview box and DVDwith only slight interference from our elderly microwave oven, polling pulses from the Wireless Lan and occasional but slight signal fade when walking near the receiver box. The IR remote side of things is a little fiddly but as I bought this to overcome the problem of running long lengths of coax cable around the house I am more than pleased with this excellant product from Philips.Well recommended. Rating: - Big up the Satus of this devices.Simple, effective and no problems at all, very good quality of picture/sound. Only down side for me is the size of the devices, however this is only a small price to pay. Had problems with IR remote control, but this really does not bother me as I just wanted to beam my picture into other rooms without wires. In all I would suggest you make the purchase, you will not look back. Rating: - I have owned this for years now.I have owned this device for some years. It is for the most part a great device, and I find the picture quality to be absolutely superb although I have had some problems with it, some of which I have solved and some not. 1) Our microwave renders this device unusuable. It makes a frighteningly loud noise and completely scrambles the picture when the microwave is on. 2) My wireless LAN interferes with the picture too. I get a regular pattern of lines which on certain channels is better than on others, but never goes away. We live in a quiet town in Berkshire now, when we were in London I would often get other interference too. 3) Any picture signal with a lot of white in it (flame, or bright lights, mostly adverts and opening credits, fortunately) causes loss of vertical hold on the picture momentarily. This has never been a real issue. 4) The "Mounting the device above your video player or cable box" just doesn't work for us. I had to use the extenders, which means only two devices. I get around this by having the DVD player running through our Sky box, and the Sky box running through the VCR. This means that whichever one of these devices is on, will play a signal. I have ended up only needing one channel from the device this way, so the manual switch is no issue at all. 5) Our cable box would not work because the TV Link won't route the correct frequency of IR. Now we have a Sky box, and that also (maddeningly) ... Read More Philips_SBC_VL1200_WirelessPhilips SBC VL1200 Wireless TV Link | |
