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[goneinsane]

I purchased the Video sender which seems to be working very well in all of my tests.
However, it suffers from one major flaw.
For someone who wants to have cable in an upstairs bedroom and not have to run cables there, it's missing a coaxial input on the sender.
My cable line comes in on the main floor. It really doesn't make sense to run it through a dvd player on the main level, then use the DVD remote on the upper lever to be able to change the channels. It would be more beneficial to have the no coaxial output on the receiver (because of course this is where it would make the most amount of sense to have a DVD player) and to include a coaxial input on the sender.

[Brian H]

The video sender is not capable of decoding or rebroadcasting Analog and Digital cable signals.
It take standard base band video after being decoded and resends it to the receiver in the other part of the home.
So a cable system coaxial connection would not be possible.

[dave w]

Just to buttress Brian H response. The wide bandwidth of cable is basically something that can't be transmitted over the air, except by satellite or microwave.

[HA Dave]

.... For someone who wants to have cable in an upstairs bedroom ....

If your just looking for a temporary solution the video sender/receivers are excellent. However.... the real solution is to run cable to the upstairs. And it's really not all that hard to do ether. Generally you can find a discrete place (maybe at a corner on the rear of the home) to run cable to the attic and distribute it to the bedrooms from there.

[goneinsane]

It is only a temporary solution but my cable is coaxial and even comes out of the cable box as coaxial. The only solution here is to split it off and run it into a dvd player that's not in use. Then use the DVD player remote to change the channels from the upstairs tv. The only problem is, when I want to watch a DVD upstairs, I have to go down to put it in.

[goneinsane]

BTW, I don't live in the U.S. so we can still get Analog without a cable box.

[HA Dave]

Yep. All sounds normal.

[Brian H]

Plain and simple.
The video sender can NOT accept any Analog or Digitally encoded RF cable signals. From your cable provider.
It can only do Baseband video from things like a DVR or video output from a TV where it has already been processed.

If you want the cable signals in another room. You will have to run coax to that room and probably use a cable signal splitter to do it.