Howard Jenings

We are looking to get multiroom from foxtel, does it require any additional wiring etc or do they come plug in the additional box and away you go. Is there an alternative if any additional wires are needed as our landlord would not be too happy for extra wiring to go in?

Rossi

Will require cabling from the dish to each room that you want a set up.
There are wireless A/V senders but personally, I have never been happy with the results

Wol

Assuming the Foxtel box is similar to the Austar one - which it probably is - you'll have an RF "out" at the back. That just transmits a TV signal containing the selected Foxtel channel.

When we built our house we just had a socket put in next to the Austar/TV in the main bedroom into which was plugged the RF output: this went to a mixer box which shoved the signal into the housewide TV co-ax cabling. Each room has a TV coax socket, so any TV plugged in can receive the Austar signal as well as all the other channels (assuming it's gone through the tuning process).

You might be able to do the same thing without major rewiring, even if some cable is left showing.

It's not ideal: the RF signal isn't the standard of the digital Austar>TV signal and you can't change channels without going into the Austar box's room but it is perfectly acceptable and gives housewide Austar/Foxtel viewing. And you *can* get remote extenders if changing channel's that important.

The bad news is that you're still watching the same c**p