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Thanks Balki and Cyril, Balki, I appreciated that link and understand some of the frustration. I did try to use a wireless sender once before with little limited success. I had exactly your experience - worked well one night; failed in the morning. I was rather hoping that digital would be better than analogue but reading your thread has put a little damper on that; though I do think I will give it a try anyway. Cyril, Some explanation: the difficulty in running coax is that we live in a town house here. I had to practically pull Optus in by the collar to run cable from the street to the basement ceiling which is under my study. The main need was for broadband internet and, as Optus was my corporate supplier, they felt they had to come to the party. I had the cable spliced to provide both internet and cable TV. Upstairs, unfortunately has no easy connection and we have beaut natural floor boards that cannot hide a cable. I was able to connect the output of the STB in the study back down under the floor to the common TV antenna cable in the MDF room that serves all units. From there to an old plug which the TV uses - I put in two amps along the way to keep signal quality up. I am contacting my cable guy to get him round to see if we can do something magic with a cable run. Regards.

Thanks ... see below. Regards.

Thanks, I'll get hold of such a unit; I am actually running the predecssor as my current IR connection! Regards.

John Thank you, That is great info as I had naively assuemed that my foxtel could/should be retransmitted from the RF output as digital. I am running an amp after the foxtel output and, needless to say, was starting to suspect that component as the villean - now I know that is not so... Maybe I should research finding and installing a Analogue to digital converter on the foxtel output!? Thank you about the bit on the SCART to svideo cable; I can see me slowly running it up under the carpets. Only problem is that when I hit upstairs, I run into bare polished floorboards and them my intentions will become obvious. Regards.

Thanks .. Will do.

Thanks Tony, That is reassuring to me. But your reply has raised two issues in my mind. The first is that you say: "but once it feeds to the AV and RF outputs, it is of course analogue". I intuitively agreed with that - but then I recalled that the FTA digital channels actually use a similar input to the TV and the TV tunes them as digital. (I take the output of the Antenna and the output of the Foxtel STB and combine them using an amp before sending them up the stairs.) Is there some identifier that allows the TV tuner to separate them? The second is a question: Is there a maximum length for an svideo or SCART run? Finally, my Foxtel (via optus little grey CV3 box) does not seem to have a svideo outlet; it does have two SCART - one over a diagram of a screen the other over a diagram of what looks like reel-to-reel tape (for heaven's sake!) And thank you for the amazingly swift reply! Regards.

Hello all, Am brand new but I have found this forum to be extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Like others I have been in electronics and IT for a long time; but this is new. I have just purchased my first digital TV - LG 42PX5D! FTA is brilliant especially the HDTV sites; Foxtel digital is not so hot. (Actually I come through Optus.) My current connection is the normal RF output. For building reasons the Foxtel box is installed downstairs (cause that is where the cable comes in) and the TV is upstairs; the only connection is the internal cable installed when the place was built some seven years ago. (Use an IR prolink for remote control connection.) From what I have read here, I suspect that a SCAT connection should improve things a lot - so I will give that a go. It could take a while though, as running a cable up the stairs is not likely to impress "she who must be obeyed". In the meantime I have the issue that the automatic channel selection on the TV assings Foxtel to the Analogue section. It still seems to operate as digital as the interactive mode operates. But I guess my questions are: 1. Does this matter? and 2. How do I change it so foxtel is selected as digital? Any help (or acknowledgment) would be appreciated. Regards.