HOT Deal - Radio Shack AV Transmitter/Receiver

[Mark Lamutt]

Saw this at Fatwallet today - Radio Shack 15-1975 AV Transmitter/Receiver that sends video and audio over your home telephone lines reduced from $119 to $9.97. For that price, even if it doesn't work very well, it's worth a shot! I'm going to pick one up tonight to try out.

[Jacob S]

Is this only available at your location or all of the locations?

[Mark Lamutt]

All Radio Shacks, although there are reports that is has sold out in some cities.

I picked one up - there were 5 left in Denver after I got mine. Came home and hooked it up. Had to actually read the manual because the ports that I intuitively plugged my cables and phone lines into weren't the right ones! :)

Got it hooked up properly, and it's actually pretty decent. If I had paid $120 for it, I wouldn't be happy, but for $10 it rocks! I am going to have to rewire my phone jack where the receiver unit is located because the jack is loose, and when bumped the video and audio go pretty haywire. But all in all, I'm pretty happy with this product.

[zimm0who0net]

Will it work with DSL?

[Mark Lamutt]

Yes, but you'll have to install the dsl filters.

[sneakymoose]

Thanks for the tip on this A/V transmitter! My old (maybe 15 years old?) Radio Shack UHF modulator/transmitter doesn't seem to be working right anymore, and now that I have the 721, I can't take advantage of the previously unused coax I had in the wall to get the picture upstairs. So this $10 device is perfect timing for me. I bought two of them in case I ever get a third TV or if one breaks. :)

I also had problems getting the device to work. I ended up hooking up both the transmitter and receiver to the same TV so I good debug the problem. Turns out that the telephone port labelling on the boxes is completely counter-intuitive, as you hinted at, too.

This box claims to carry IR signals from receiver back to transmitter, too -- so those of you with non-UHF remotes receivers may benefit from this. (I haven't tried this feature.)

[Mark Lamutt]

I also haven't tried the IR sending feature. But after tightening down my phone jack near my receiving unit, this thing works pretty damn well for me, considering the price. Glad you were able to get them before they're gone!

[dlsnyder]

Thanks for the tip! I picked one of these up yesterday (got the last one). I tried it out - not too bad but I was getting some herringbone lines, probably from something in my house. I know my combo VCR/DVD player has an RF modulator that is going bad so that could be it.

And the IR sending feature works great! For $10 if nothing else it would make a decent remote extender. Now to play with it and see what I can MAKE it do! :D

[jeffwtux]

So does this transmit the IR signal from the remote to the receiver or does this send the actual video out signal from the receiver?? If it's the later. That would be awesome. Makes installing the UHF antenna deal much easier.

[Mark Lamutt]

Not quite sure I understand your question. This unit consists of a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter accepts composite video and rca audio and sends the video and audio over a phone line to the receiver unit which sends the video and audio out via composite video and rca audio. The receiver also has an IR receiver built in that will send IR signals received from a remote control over the phone line back to the transmitter which as a built in IR "blaster" which can control your device.