Cheapest box w/ cable tuner= dm500C (c indicating cable tuner), sub $200AUD/ea. You will find sellers in the sat forums or they occasionally pop up on eBay. You will need one dm to act as server which will take your current fox card (what colour is it? and it's not a SIM btw). The server will act as a tuner to itself, so you will be able to watch TV with it. Room 1 solved. Each additional room will require it's own box, and will be in client mode pulling ch data from the card in server room. Each box will need a unique IP within your LAN, and networked accordingly. Your existing foxtel box (property of fox) has no use in this scenario/setup and cannot communicate with the dm's. So, if multiroom is +$15/mo. you may be better off sticking w/legit over splashing several hundred toward boxes, etc. Bear in mind too, this is not straight forward.. you will spend many hours learning the boxes, telneting, ftp, custom cfg work, the list goes on. If you are already familiar with linux, even better. As quick point of mention, it is possible to use a dm500 to record programming (not always flawlessly) over LAN to a mounted pc hdd but you will effectively lose this feature by retiring the legit fox box.
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