Afternoon Techie-wizards!
The Hovel-Hostess has recently become infatuated with Sky radio (0121 Gold), and has started listening to it daily. She has it on from "0-stupid o`clock" in the morning till about 17.30, this also means that the TV (36" Toshiba) is just sat there all day displaying a couple of info-panels. Appart from the expense, i am thinking about damage from screen-burn, and would prefer to eliminate the tv from the set-up, seeing as it hasn`t a screen saver feature.
So question is - could this be done? and how? (cheaply and tidily if poss!) Skybox is a Grundig and seems to have L +R output sockets.
thanks in advance!
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i have a scart converter to phone plugs for my kitchen telly, so the sound quality is better and i can this way also hear the tv in the bathroom as i wired the bathroom up to the amplifier in the kitchen too
the scart is plugged into the £15 digi box i bought for the telly so once the station is on the screen i can turn the telly completely off
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The L+R sockets will be line level audio outputs, suitable for connecting to the 'AUX IN' on most music systems, so a simple cable will do if you've got such a system in the same room.
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Plan B, if no suitable system is in the same room, would be to use a set of PC speakers plonked somewhere suitable where they can be connected to the L+R sockets on the Sky.
Random example:-
www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/sandstrom-s20sp10-2-0-pc-speakers-06464017-pdt.html
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"So question is - could this be done? and how?"
Yeah I've done this. The telly is in the bedroom, my office is next door. I bought speakers that plugged into the back of the sat box and fed them into my office so I can listen to the radio or telly without having the screen on.
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>> www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001U0KW1Q/?tag=googhydr-21&hvadid=6674372553&ref=pd_sl_6gko6di8fe_e
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>> You want one of these - I have one they're great.
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Yeah, I did occur to me that this is what the Gnome was made for; I didn't know you could still get them though.
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I was rather surprised to be honest.
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Be quick, you cant get them and there is only one on Amazon.
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Thanks chaps! - i knew the answer was out there,somewhere! = i`m off"huntin Gnomes"!! ;-)
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>> Be quick, you cant get them and there is only one on Amazon.
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Well I'll got to the foot of our stairs, there's a company still making (or at least selling and supporting) them:-
www.sky-gnome.co.uk/
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At the caravan I have a Freeview hard disc recorder wired through a mini system for sound and a small Samsung LCD telly for vision.
Easy enough to listen to Freeview radio with the screen on standby.
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If you're struggling I have one - it's packed away at the moment though.
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cheers P.U, tracked some down on ebay, will see how this biddin thing works! but theres some on b-i-n as back-up!
cheers all ;-)
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You can buy them direct from the site I linked up thread, 12 month warranty etc.:-
www.sky-gnome.co.uk/acatalog/SKY_Gnome.html#a2
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Ah yes! - seemed to miss that link! - well if the biddin fails, and i have to pay full whack ;-) this looks to be the better option esp with 12mnth gaurantee! thnx!
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Is the said Gold station available on DAB? If so the obvious answer is a cheap DAB radio, I would have thought.
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Indeed it is.
A dab radio is a much better proposition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(radio)
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The same music as, but NO Tony Blackburn,.
Cant be bad.,
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>> A dab radio is a much better proposition.
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Depends on the OP's indoor DAB reception, mine is rubbish in some rooms on the commercial muxes. Agreed it's potentially cheaper and leaves the Sky box free for proper channels like Discovery Shed.
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>> Afternoon Techie-wizards!
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>> The Hovel-Hostess has recently become infatuated with Sky radio (0121 Gold), and has started listening
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Mrs RR listens to that as well. For a station that has access to sixty years of hit records their playlist seems to consist of the same twenty songs over and over again. All the gold stations I have listened to do the same.
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Not sure about the Dab signal here, i assume as we were the first to go digital with tv that it should be ok, however, i quite like the look of the gnome, tis small, neat, and wireless! so i`ve almost been convinced it`s what we want! as long as we can turn mi telly off!!!
>>has access to sixty years of hit records their playlist seems to consist of the same twenty songs over and over again<<
but unlike some of todays "rap-crap" the`re worth listning to! even if repeated every now and again, class lives on! :-)
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sky radio - Bellboy
