Hotels and TVs

legend99

Guys,
general question. How do hotels relay channels to all their tellys? Even if they only relay FTA channels via satelitte, does it literally mean that they have a cupboards somewhere with say 10 boxes outputing 10 different channels each to all the tellys in the hotel?
In other words, how do they show CNN, Sky News, Sky One, BBC1 etc if they are not in a cable area and need to use a decoder...something I alweays wondered about...Xmas pressie for me if someone tells me!

Frank Spencer

Good question!!

seano

They pull in the signal the same as everyone else throught a dish and then the signal is worked throught Headend decoders that converts it into signals capable of sending it throught RF cables.
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SPAWKER

I work on board a ship,we have 12 decoders one for BBC1,BBC2,ITV,CH4,CH5,RTE1,RTE2,TV3,TG4,SKY SP1,SKY SP2,&SKY SP3 OR XTRA.They are all on different RF channels eg;BBC1 Ch 23 and RTE1 Ch 33,then they are fed into a 12 way splitter which in turn is fed into different sections of the ship.At this point it is split again depending on how many tv sets it needs to supply.Hope this answers your query.

byte

Yeah, basically it's a massive pile of receivers which are then fed into a headend distributer.

In January, I'll be finishing a job where there a total of 15 digital receivers (2 of which have FTV cards) - 8 on Astra 2, 7 on Astra 1. On top of this will be a radio tuner which will be used with a Text Inserter and also 5 DVD players with modulators :O

Macy

I was actually thinking of this over christmas as well (not on Christmas Day though :eek: ), and managed to convince myself there had to be some kind of multituner that would work out as a cheaper and easier option.... So as the technology stands, you'd be better off with reciever per room, unless you want telly's in more than 10 rooms!

snaps

How do ships keep on line with the satellite? Especially when in rough seas?

intersplat

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