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    Hi, We are looking at the best way to distribute foxtel and free to air ( and maybe android box). We have 2 buildings on the block ( shed/office and new house). at the moment the aerials are on the shed and feed into the office and tv there. We have runs of cat5/rg6/rg11 run from there underground to the house and into a cupboard where everything will be based.
    Cat 5 and rg6 is run to all rooms in the house. What unit(s) would be best in the cupboard to distribute to the rooms? I think we will move the foxtel box into that cupboard as it is in the house where it will be watched most of the time.



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    chatterbox,

    Firstly, I've moved your thread here as the section you posted in was intended for installers etc to offer services and people couldn't post responses.

    There's a few options, depending on the quality of the Foxtel distribution you want.

    Given you have Cat5 cabling insitu, you can use an HDMI matrix switcher and distribution amp with Cat/HDMI baluns at each end.

    It should be noted however, that 1080P HDMI baluns are mostly designed to work with Cat6 cables, so results may vary with Cat5/5e.

    Both the Foxtel box and an android box can be selected on the matrix switcher and routed to any room independently.

    Obviously, only the single channel selected on the Foxtel box can be viewed in each room.

    Another method is a digital modulator to convert the HDMI out of the Foxtel box to DVB-T which is combined with the FTA signals and tuned as a TV 'channel' on the TV's just as you would tune any of the FTA channels.

    The cheapest method is to modulate Foxtel in analogue and tune it via the analogue tuner in the TV's... this gives a very poor quality pic by comparison to the other methods.

    You will need to ensure there is adequate signal levels of terrestrial and satellite arriving from the antenna and dish on shed to the cupboard in the house.

    Depending on those levels and length of the cable runs, using RG11 would be best.

    You will need three separate coax runs... two for Foxtel and one for the FTA antenna.

    If you want Foxtel available in the shed, you can use a quad LNB, or a multiswitch so two cables go to the house and two to outlets in the shed.

    The FTA signals are a simple MATV distribution with an amplifier and splitter to each of the RG6 cables.

    You may need to balance signal levels a bit if there is a big difference of cable lengths to the various outlets to ensure levels are around 65-75dBuV at each outlet.

    If you are modulating the Foxtel/Android outputs, those levels will need to be matched to those of the FTA signals so that one doesn't interfere with the other.

    You really need instrumentation to do this type of distribution accurately.

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