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Freesat in multiple rooms
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genny
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My parents live in a terrible freeview signal zone, they can't receive it at all, in fact analogue TV isn't the best, noisy at times.
So now freesat is finally here, it may be the answer. They have no interest in Sky, nor any pay/subscription based tv and don't have access to cable they just want the handful of standard channels and if there are some extra ones that's a bonus.
Can you have freesat installed (or install yourself) to allow it to be received on three different TVs in three different rooms of the house (quite a distance from each other.
I'm sure you only need one dish, but them do you need a feed from that dish to each room and a separate freesat box in each room? Iassume you can't connect the dish to the aerial lead in the loft and distribute it that way?
What are the options?
So now freesat is finally here, it may be the answer. They have no interest in Sky, nor any pay/subscription based tv and don't have access to cable they just want the handful of standard channels and if there are some extra ones that's a bonus.
Can you have freesat installed (or install yourself) to allow it to be received on three different TVs in three different rooms of the house (quite a distance from each other.
I'm sure you only need one dish, but them do you need a feed from that dish to each room and a separate freesat box in each room? Iassume you can't connect the dish to the aerial lead in the loft and distribute it that way?
What are the options?
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Yes, you can feed other boxes from the same dish with a multi feed lnb, my box does not have any coax output only scart so you can't just run an extra wire from the box, I'm not sure about grundid or goodmans boxes, you will have to look in the shop or online for their connectionsThere are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't...0
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Can you have freesat installed (or install yourself) to allow it to be received on three different TVs in three different rooms of the house (quite a distance from each other.
Yes, you will need a quad LNB fitted to the dish, and an individual feed taken to each Freesat Receiver in each room, I hope that helps.
No connection with your existing TV Aerial.0 -
Consider one of the tv sender units available from the likes of maplins, probably the cheapest optionclick here to achieve nothing!0
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Thanks everyone, sounds like a multi-LNB box is what they need.
What's LNB stand for?0 -
Thanks everyone, sounds like a multi-LNB box is what they need.
What's LNB stand for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-noise_block_converterI'm mad!!!! :rotfl::jand celebrating everyday every year!!!0
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