Query about Distribution

mjsmyth

I am just curious as to how a hotel distributes sat tv around their rooms.

Most hotels offer the standard RTE1 &2, TV3 and TG4 along with BBC, ITV, Sky News and a few more channels.

The terrestrial channel are easy enough to distribute, but the satellite ones, well...
If, for example they decide to add an extra 5 channels on to the 4 Irish (BBC1, BBC2, UTV, Sky News, MTV), do they have a Sky box for each channel and feed each one into the system separately, or is there a much easier way of doing this?

Is there a cheap way of doing this for a house?

Thanks,

MJ

construct06

cud have a box for each channel, and then distribute just like the terrestial channels!

byte

Many just have a rack of satellite receivers each just outputting one channel.

These are fed independantly into a rack, which has an array of fixed channel modulators (so each box output freq must match the input of each modulator on the rack).

mjsmyth

Thats what I was afraid of.... Ah well.

Thanks.

mj

watty

see
http://www.emp-centauri.cz/products.php?menuId=2&page=170-cp-16

You use a QUATTRO LNB for each satellite and then can feed 16 receivers.

You can split and amplify the Quattro and use it to feed easily 64 Mulitswitches...

mjsmyth

Thanks Watty.

mj

gerryo

mjsmyth wrote:

I am just curious as to how a hotel distributes sat tv around their rooms.
Is there a cheap way of doing this for a house?
MJ

The Radisson in cork appear to use some sort of "TV over Ethernet" system, the rooms have a flat screen TV with a PC or settop box hidden in a wooden case made to look like part of the furniture. They had the standard terrestrials + a few sat.

Quality was below par for analog TV, might have been the way channels were being captured. Colour was washed out, looked to be 480x480 rez, not great on a 32" flat screen

I assume once they grab a channel from either a TV card or sat box, they use multicasting to send it out to all the rooms, makes sense for a large hotel, perhaps not so for a small house.

Not cheap to do this at home, fun though

Tony

Yes this system seems to be very common in new hotels, basically its the Tv equivalent of a computer network using cat 5 e or similar cable with routers and demodulators