Hi All,
Once I had an TV aerial in the loft, distribution amp in the bedroom and TV outlets in most rooms and all was well.
Then NTL came along and gave me my std terrestrial chans again (+ Ch5 FWTW) plus a few more, so removed the aerial connection and fed the distribution amp from the cable box and all was well (and because it was a nice analog STB we could watch any terrestrial chan or the 'Cable' chan on any set / video in the house) ;-)
Then came Freeview ..
I bought one specifically that had a modulated RF output but I now have a dilemma re sources and outlets ...
By definition I have to take the initial *cable* feed into the STB and from there it could go to (through) the Freeview box and that would pass through the std terrestrial and decode the digital chans and add it's own UHF channel from that but I assume the Freeview signal wouldn't be present on the cable?
Both the Freeview and Cable boxes have SCART outputs which are fine for getting either signal to the non SCART TV in the lounge (near all the boxes) via the video player.
So, is there a (semi domestic priced) distribution amp thingy that would say take a SCART input and 'inject' (for want of a better description) it's own additional UHF slot into the existing system please?
Maplin do this which I think might fit the bill:
Aerial > Freeview box > Modulator with Cable box SCART'ED in >
distribution amp > house TV's ?
The Freeview box would 'add' the decoded digital chan output to the base analog signals then the modulator would add the output of the Cable STB to that (but I could only view the base terrestrial channels plus the single selected Freeview chan + single Cable chan on all the remote TV's).
But would the entire digital TV band be passed through everything for the Freeview decoder cards in the PC's (also off the (fairly old) distribution system)?
All the best ..
T i m (now with a headache). ;-)