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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brathnach" data-source="post: 503758" data-attributes="member: 285585">Well I guess its time for me to give my .02€ back here as I have got alot of information from this forum. I totally agree with Teslas advice regarding a headend system.Ill give you the lot of my experience and let you pick out the useful bits.Firstly, I was in pretty much the exact same situation as you approx one year ago. I was trying to 'piece' together a solution for a 15 bedroom guesthouse for satellite TV. I looked at the possibility of installing receivers in each room connected to a multiswitch etc. However I had wall mounted 20" LCD and a bracket with a receiver on it would have just been plain ugly. Your situation may be more friendly to this solution however!Now the second issue with regards to hotels and guesthouses is when you consider for example the dreambox solution or some networked setup. The truth is, I know the owner of the guesthouse as a friend, and he is plain annoyed at the number of times he has had to go up to the rooms to simply show guests how to turn on the TV using the remote. I didnt think of this initially but you really have to think of ease of use for the end user on this one - the end users who may, as pointed out above, may find it challenging to turn on the TV in the first place! Dont forget also that you would now have two remotes in each room to add to the confusion! (Not to mention them going missing!)So back to how I got to my solution. I had also considered having an IR receiver placed at each TV and wired back to a dedicated reciever placed in a central location so that each TV had all the channels the receiver had to offer. So much wiring, still dual remote controls in each room, pricey, reliability issues are just a few things that spring to mind.Then I considered why not just set each receiver (with a modulated output) to just decode one channel and have a stack of receivers equal to the number of channels I wanted! This is how most hotels do work! i.e. a QPSK decoder dedicated to each channel. This would have been my second solution. Issues included getting the units to switch to the channel they were on after power cut, modulating channels etc. So my solution, after much much research, I came across this unit h**p://www.gss.tv/index.php?id=1387.They arent cheap but this unit is as simple as they get and was approx the same price as going down the receiver route for the 15 rooms. It does dedicate a tuner to each channel so you do only end up with 16 channels output but you can send these channels to as many TV's as you can dream of! (Great future proofing!) If you have some research done as regards how satellite distro systems work - i.e. horizontal/vertical and Hi/Lo Bands etc then installing this is a breeze!! (3 hours - job done!)Basically I'm just delighted I went down this route. I did self install and found it quiet easy. Reliability is excellent - havent power cycled it in 9 months! It tunes in each channel to UHF so the TV's pick it up as if it were just another terrestrial channel.Maybe a bit of a pain not having more channels but you have to remember who this is for - people staying a couple of nights at most and the majority may not be very tech-fast! Also you want to keep the hotel people happy for reputation sake, and not have a patched together system like I was contemplating! I'm not the best at putting words to my experiences, so sorry for the short novel, but which ever solution you go with let me know if I can offer any advice as I most likely thoroughly researched that solution too (or maybe you'll have me kicking myself for not having thought of something)(Now to find a way of sending this post back to myself one year ago! )Good luckRob</blockquote>

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