will using a video sender unit for my 50inch plasma affect the quality of picture.?

Question

it will be less than a foot away, but in another room directly behind the wall that the tv is mounted to.

the sender will be mainly used for a digital cable box.

i want to send from a digital cable box.

Answer 1

Yes.

Even the best video senders you can buy will degrade the picture. On a small TV that will probably not be noticeable. On a 50" screen, it will be obvious.

If you want a good quality picture, you will need a physical connection i.e. cables.

Answer 2

It's not a question of distance, but bandwidth. Check the specs, but everything I've seen on the Video Sender suggests it sends "DVD quality" video ... in other words not HD. Depending what you expect from the HDTV you may be disappointed.

Edit

Look at it this way.... If you send an SD signal (i.e. non-HD TV) you won't get a (significantly)worse signal using the video sender but you will if you try to send an HD signal (i.e. HD cable or satellite TV), and for the reasons I state below, you should be sending an HD signal .... so I wouldn't recommend a Video Sender (unless you can find a model rated specifically for HD).

Your HDTV will scale the input signal to the HDTV ... but, unfortunately, many plasmas and LCD HDTVs don't do a very good job with SD signals, so even with wires if you are feeding SDTV programming you might not get as good a picture from the HDTV as you did with your old SDTV. You didn't specify if you are feeding SD or HD, but if you have an HDTV you really need HD programming to take advantage of it.

Answer 3

It depends on whether its a pc you are hooking it up to or not. The pc quality differs from the plasma quality, so although your TV is high standard, the computer or video playback may not be as efficient enough.