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The new Marmitek Digital TV Anywhere set comprises a transmitter and a receiver pair. Connect the transmitter to the SCART output on your Freeview / Sky / Other set-top box, then connect the receiver to a TV somewhere else in the house. Then the picture, sound and IR commands from your remote control are sent wirelessly between the two. The £149 system is available now, check out the video after the jump...

Here's an interesting little box from Keene Electronics.  The AU-11CA HDMI Audio Embedder will inject an external audio signal into your HDMI cable.  Some systems don't include digial audio over HDMI, as any owner of a Sky+ box knows.  So using this device you can free up a digital audio input on your AV amp by injecting the audio right into the HDMI...

Back in 2007 we heard a rumour that Sky were working on developing a new server that would record all the families shows and distribute them around the home to a client box in each room.  Today the rumour is back, changed slightly, and this time with more details...

Is this the next generation of Sky multichannel recorder / server?  A post on our mailing list this morning suggest just that, and if true, its going to be an extremely juicy box! Here's the rumor from our mailing list...

"I've just been talking to a Sky subby and he said that next year (possible January) Sky will be launching a HD server.  4 LNB inputs, (with) 4 cat5 outputs, 1Tb storage and the facility to record up to 8 channels at once.  Server will distribute TV round the house to cat5/HDMI boxes"...