audio/ video for company exercise room

dylan

I'm looking for advice or any ideas... being in our company's IT department (insert rolly eyes here...), I've been asked to equip our new exercise room with the ability for each treadmill to pickup audio from TV's posted around the room. We have not purchased any TV's or audio equipment. There's multiple digital cable TV inputs available (long story, we're a hub for the local cable TV company as well...)

So, looking for flat-screen's that could maybe broadcast audio to FM, then pickup at the treadmills with FM capable headphones? Are there wireless audio transmitters that I could post headphone jacks at each one, so people can use their own music player/ headphones? Will need to buy about 5 TV's, and equip about 8-10 treadmills with audio ability.

Thanks for any help.

danger boy

well, i don't know exactly how it works.. but at my gym.. each TV is tuned to a different cable channel.. and on the front it says. "to listen to ESPN2, tune your FM radio/player to 88.9FM) so I can see some kind of box that connects to the audio output from the TV into this transmitter.. and wha la, you get to tune your FM radio headphones to that channel.

this sounds like what you are trying to accomplish, right? Sorry I can't be of more help.

P.S. Let me know when you want to come over and finally take a listen to the SRS's.

Serendipity

Check out www.ramseyelectronics.com for FM transmitters which will do exactly the job you are looking for. They sell both low-power transmitters (no license required) and high-power models (which require an FCC license) not suited for short-range transmission.

dylan

Perfect, that should do the trick, thanks everyone. I like the idea of having a group of tv's broadcast to a certain FM station (like espn, etc).

DB... definitely still on my list of things to do!