Calling any techno-electro gadget nerds

[Babelfish]

We recently had this media wall installed. As is usual with these things the TV pulls out on an extendable "concertina" wall bracket but what I don't want to be doing is having to muck about pushing & pulling it in & out every time I want to change a DVD/Blu-Ray. The idea is to have the player elsewhere in the room and operate it away from the TV. Possibly on one of the coffee tables to the side (although the wife wants it out of sight when not in use).



As the ("smart") TV and the BluRay player are both new, I've been led to believe that this is technically possible but that I require a couple of wireless transmitter/ receiver dongle-type gizmos to plug one into the back of the TV and the other into the back of the BluRay player in order for them to talk to each other.

The local Currys were useless ("we don't sell them mate but you can get them online") so my question to the Committee is: What exactly is it that I need? I've found all manner of "IR extenders", "IR repeaters" etc. but I think I might need something else entirely. It's all a bit baffling for a bloke who only got his first smartphone a couple of years ago.

I'm not a tech-head (hence the question) but I'm hoping that someone reading this might be!

- Steve

 

[Helm]

I suspect that while you could do it that way, you will hit serious buffering/performance issues. Wireless is just unable to match the data speed that something like HDMI requires. Unless you seriously compress it like those wireless dongles for office projectors do. Which will result in a loss of quality. Not to mention, they add a massive amount of delay.
Steve

 

[Nap]

Media Wall?? .....blimey I was confused as I read the words coffee table !!

Good old Curry’s eh !

...and now “dongles” ...think a chemist visit might help ....

Hope you get this sorted Steve

Nap

 

[Babelfish]

Media Wall?? .....blimey I was confused as I read the words coffee table !!

Yeah apparently that's what they're called Kev. I'd always thought it was "One of them TVs with an electric fire underneath".

- Steve

 

[Ferris]

Can you make a recessed shelff in one of the sides of the wall?
You can then have a cabled connection with the TV, where cables are hidden behind the front wall. I would avoid the dongle thing for fear of data transmission delays and interrupts, although I’m not an expert on this.

By the way, where is the player now? Behind the TV?

Adrian

 

[Babelfish]

Can you make a recessed shelff in one of the sides of the wall?
You can then have a cabled connection with the TV, where cables are hidden behind the front wall. I would avoid the dongle thing for fear of data transmission delays and interrupts, although I’m not an expert on this.

By the way, where is the player now? Behind the TV?

Unfortunately such a shelf isn't an option now the wall's been (expensively) papered. It would just bugger everything up and we'd have to start over again with that part of it. I suggested one of those self-supporting shelves and run a cable through at the side, but the wife vetoed it as she doesn't want the pattern of the paper breaking up by anything on the wall or any cables visible!

The player isn't currently set up anywhere, we're just watching TV on the various freeview and streaming platforms.

The issue is self-inflicted really because we didn't really think ahead properly in terms of where to put the player. Initially I put an (older) DVD player next to the TV and concealed in the TV's wall recess, only to find that the signal from the DVD remote was blocked by the TV. I wanted to get a newer disc player anyway so I bought one, but not before I realised what a ball-ache it was having to keep pulling the TV out every time we want to access the player.

The potential signal delay issues that you and Steve allude to were my concern as well, but I have been told that it's do-able ... as long as you have the right bit of kit. Question is: What IS the right kit?!

First-world problems really, but it is a tad annoying.

- Steve