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#318679 11-Feb-2025 14:40
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I currently have an HDMI splitter connected to a Sky box in the dining room.

 

Plan A: One cable goes to the TV, the other to a wireless HDMI transmitter.

 

The HDMI receiver in the other room (Room 2) works sporadically at best.

 

Plan B: I intended to get a cat6 run done between the 2 rooms and use HDMI over ethernet adapters but that has hit a wee snag.

 

Plan C:

 

Techy person's proposal is to move the Sky box to a location where it we can run cables to it more easily from the Matchmaster Multiswitch 10MM-MST08, ie Room 2's wardrobe.

 

Install a HDMI to Digital TV modulator (COFDM output) and feed both TV's with Freeview and Sky over coax, and use IR extenders to change Sky channels.

 

Does this sound like a reasonable solution and how would it work?

 

I've asked techy person but he's out on jobs and I'm feeling impatient.

 

I've looked at Matchmasters website for a HDMI to Digital TV modulator with COFDM output, but I cannot identify it. No part number was supplied on the quote.





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  #3341521 11-Feb-2025 14:43
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  #3341522 11-Feb-2025 14:47
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Spyware:

 

https://www.matchmaster.co.nz/amplifiers-and-modulators/10mm-dtm2/

 

 

I wondered if that was it, but was unsure as no mention of COFDM.





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  #3341523 11-Feb-2025 14:53
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  #3341524 11-Feb-2025 14:59
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Spyware:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T

 

 

Acronym overload!!!

 

Edit: I see it. "DVB-T is a COFDM transmission technique"





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  #3341526 11-Feb-2025 15:07
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So this is probably how it would work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

So would Sky just be like Ch99 or something on the TV and then that one channel shows whatever the current Sky channel is?





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  #3341536 11-Feb-2025 15:28
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@spyware , thanks for the assist.





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  #3341543 11-Feb-2025 16:16
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Hmmm....

 

I dont think my olde 10MM-MST08 supports backfeeding from the 10MM-DTM2.

 

The newer 10MM-MST308 would.

 

Have I understood that right?

 

 





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