wiring a new house for tv

Carawaystick

To reasonably future proof a new build, does this seem reasonable

( for getting 28E and DTT)

An octo lnb with one pair to the sitting room, another pair to another living room/kitchen and a single lnb feed to 4 bedrooms

Use a combiner on the dtt feed to each of the rooms with wall plate splitters to separate the dtt from the satellite signal?

DTT signal is fine, as near an antenna (<5km) so a clothes hanger would be fine, but a real aerial will be used.

The Cush

If running new cables I'd run a separate feed to each TV point for DTT in addition to the satellite cabling, save the hassle of combiners/splitters etc. It could also be used in the bedrooms if a sat pvr (twin feeds) was required in any of those rooms in future.

A spare cable to the main TV point would also be an option, might be used for Sky RF2 distribution to the other rooms.

FlexMcMurphy

Just wanted to throw a suggestion into the mix. Apologies if I've actually got it wrong!

This suggestion would reduce the amount of coaxial cable you would need and instead put the focus on the most important cabling any house should have: Ethernet cabling. I believe that every room in every house should be wired with at least one network point.

Yes you need at least an Octo LNB on the dish. But if you want Satellite/Terrestrial feed available to several bedrooms another option would be to keep some or all of the necessary satellite decoder boxes together e.g in a utility room. In this scenario the boxes would need to be triple tuner Linux boxes such as Amiko Alien 2 or Technomate boxes. Connect them to a switch and then ethernet cable to every room in the house.

Taking the bedrooms as an example: in each bedroom you would just need a TV and small device stuck on the back such as a raspberry Pi running Kodi or EnigmaTV which can stream the channels from the boxes in the utility room.

Why is this better? Because you may not need to buy a decoder box for every room if the channels are streamed from a central source. Also, you would not need to run any coaxial cable at all and save the money for ethernet cable which gives more value...

1. For the kind of set up I've suggested here.
2. For streaming multimedia content from a central NAS to anywhere in the house.
3. Ensuring fast internet to every room instead of relying on maybe sometimes flaky Wifi.
4. Having VOIP telephone service in every room.

Just a suggestion,

Flex

Carawaystick

Was going to wire up ethernet alright, Can't see co-ax wire and de-mux plate being more expensive than a pi, sd card, power supply, power lead, hdmi lead...

MACHEAD

Pretty sure I've seen a double face plate with black nylon brush in the centre. The kind you get on letter plates. Can't find them anywhere since that. But would be handy where there are multiple cable types exiting and negating the need for multiple interface/socket types.