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Our house is almost complete and it's been a while since I've had a look on these forums. Other things have taken a priority.
Anyways, we have set it up so that a small "false room" behind the movie room is where the foxtel boxes have to go. Eventually I will input them into a PC using media centre or something like that, and distribute them throughout the house.
Until I build the PC's we want a temporary solution to watch foxtel in 3 different rooms (obviously with two boxes two of the rooms will have to share a chanel and the other will have it dedicated)
So what I need to do is modulate the foxtel boxes signal into the coax cable that goes into the rooms in the house. Using the TV's built in tuners I should be able to tune in the analogue signal as well as still getting the digital signal, right? (I'd have to switch tuners on the remote, but it should be possible... no?). What I mean is, there is no reason why a coax cable shouldn't be able to have an analogue and a digital signal going through it at the same time. I mean, I'm sure that I can do that at the moment.
So, if the answer is yes, do I need a piece of equipment to modulate the signal? I've been told that foxtel boxes can modulate without need for equipment but I'm not so sure.
The only problem with this is that the rooms upstairs wont be able to change channels. Thats why the end solution is to use media centre extenders or media portal or something. But as a stopgap, or if the pc goes screwy, it will at the very least let us watch foxtel through the TV's built in tuners.
If I do need to use some piece of equipment to modulate the signal, are they expensive? Would I be better off just getting a wireless sender receiver or two?
Sorry for so many questions, I should have sorted this out ages ago but there have been more pressing matters.
Our house is almost complete and it's been a while since I've had a look on these forums. Other things have taken a priority.
Anyways, we have set it up so that a small "false room" behind the movie room is where the foxtel boxes have to go. Eventually I will input them into a PC using media centre or something like that, and distribute them throughout the house.
Until I build the PC's we want a temporary solution to watch foxtel in 3 different rooms (obviously with two boxes two of the rooms will have to share a chanel and the other will have it dedicated)
So what I need to do is modulate the foxtel boxes signal into the coax cable that goes into the rooms in the house. Using the TV's built in tuners I should be able to tune in the analogue signal as well as still getting the digital signal, right? (I'd have to switch tuners on the remote, but it should be possible... no?). What I mean is, there is no reason why a coax cable shouldn't be able to have an analogue and a digital signal going through it at the same time. I mean, I'm sure that I can do that at the moment.
So, if the answer is yes, do I need a piece of equipment to modulate the signal? I've been told that foxtel boxes can modulate without need for equipment but I'm not so sure.
The only problem with this is that the rooms upstairs wont be able to change channels. Thats why the end solution is to use media centre extenders or media portal or something. But as a stopgap, or if the pc goes screwy, it will at the very least let us watch foxtel through the TV's built in tuners.
If I do need to use some piece of equipment to modulate the signal, are they expensive? Would I be better off just getting a wireless sender receiver or two?
Sorry for so many questions, I should have sorted this out ages ago but there have been more pressing matters.
This one is easy peasy, I've used a box'o'tricks that would suit your needs in a few HT installs I've done as a distributed "House Channel", Hills have a 4 channel RF modulator. In essence it lets you connect up to 4 devices using composite and L+R audio and assign each of the input a different UHF frequency on the RF out (Antenna coax), but the great thing is the box also handles IR repeating over RF. With an optional "injector" box at the TV end and IR "buds" at the equipment end.
Avoid AV senders (especially 2.4GHz ones) - they interfere & can be interfered with by WLAN, DECT phones, microwaves, neighbours, etc.
The Foxtel boxes have modulators that are actually pretty good. You can change the UHF channel they operate on via a hidden menu (very easy - you get 2 menus in & press 0411 on the remote). The problem is that they only output analogue audio & don't carry remote signals.
An iQ can use a kit ($70 at DSE) that will allow you to send the remote signals back via the co-ax (& has a second remote too). It will only work to a single TV as it needs a direct link back to the TV.
As an alternative to the iQ remote kit, you can use a Magnavox kit, but again, it needs a pretty much direct link.
All up, for multiple boxes/TVs a proper modulated system with a remote control option (i.e. the Hills system that Extreme mentioned) is probably the best bet.
Justin
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