Tv distribution
 

HI folks,
I hope this is the right place to ask. I’ve just bought a 4 bedroom ‘fixer upa’ house, and needs lots of work, so I will be starting from scratch. I noticed that the house an old NTL connection box on the outside of the house. I was going to get Sky installed, but now looking a VM’s Tv service.

Anyway, I want to distribute Tv around the house, but I am not sure how to do that. I know, with Sky I can use a mutliswitch, which sends the signals to the rooms, that I can lay cables to and connect sky boxes in the various rooms with subs.

I want to send/split the signal to the following rooms, family room (Tivo box), main bedroom (Tivo box and V+ boxes to the other 3 bedrooms, so there will be 5 boxes in total.
Something like this

NTL box --> Splitter
--> from splitter to Tivo box 1
--> from splitter to Tivo box 2
--> from splitter to V+ box 1
--> from splitter to V+ box 2
--> from splitter to V+ box 3

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this or if this is possible? is there a limit of the number of boxes I can have

Thanks MJH

Re: Tv distribution
 

VM will install the cabling and split as necessary to put the boxes wherever you want (within reason). You can have up to 6 TV boxes.

V+ boxes are not normally available for new installs now, having been superseded by TiVo. Do you mean V-HD maybe? http://store.virginmedia.com/digital.../v-hd-box.html

ps. Welcome to the forum!

Re: Tv distribution
 

VM will install a box to the rooms you want with out you having to do any work.

Re: Tv distribution
 

Right, if he wanted cable lying about or tacked onto his newly plastered walls, otherwise you have to do it yourself.

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Well all my cables are neatly tacked to the top of the skirting boards and around the doors and they are hardly noticable due to being the same colour as the skirting. :)

Re: Tv distribution
 

Yes, that is what I wanted to avoid, cables all over the place. Since it will be a work in progress, I want to get all the cables (electric/data/tv) installed, then the plasterer can come in and give the rooms a smooth finish with hidden cables.

I figured that using multiply VM boxes would use the same type as Sky, (multiswitch) but when I google'd I could not find the info I wanted. So I posted here.

Thanks

Re: Tv distribution
 

Your better running cables to one point like a cupboard including the broadband coax cable. That way you can attatch whatever cable you need.

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Yep, that's what I had planned, was to make all the cables meet at a central point in the loft above the outside wall mounted box. I've worked it out, that I need 96m of cable, inc 10% extra for wastage etc.

I've looked around and found this cable, would this be suitable for my needs? http://www.aerialsat.com/prod/100m-h...oax-cable.html

Thanks