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Reading between the lines, and having fitted one or two wall sockets (;)), my guess is that you're concerned about kinking the cable as you try to fit it in the backbox space behind the wall plate. If making the junction box hole deeper isn't an option, you could try a 90 degree F plug...

Find if a neighbour has the same phone, or if a different make, then either way ask if you can look at how theirs is wired up. This will tell you which of the wires are used and which not (so you can cross them off the list). Next, which two wires for power, and which of the two is +ve and -ve...

That's the correct way round for your cat-sitting needs. One observation, this unit also scales the image to 720p or 1080p. If you're serious about buying one, try to find something that keeps the resolution as-is. All TVs have a built-in scaler. They have to because a TV can see a wide array...

I'm saying that, at best, a SCART to HDMI convertor is no different to plugging in the yellow composite connector to the TV's AV (composite) connection. It just costs more money and uses up a HDMI socket that might be better used for something else. You see, the picture from SCART has the...

That's the wrong way around. It's for a DVD player with HDMI to work with at TV that has SCART. Your brother's Glass doesn't have SCART.

I'd be amazed if you could find SCART on any recent LED or OLED TV 32" or bigger, so it's not just Glass but virtually all TVs. The last time it was relatively common is when we had Plasma and before LCD TVs went thinner with the advent of LED backlighting. If there's a collection of DVDs...

That's probably more to do with the TV operating system. It has to load and do stuff before the TV is ready to use. Sony's Android TVs always used to seem to take forever to start. Turn the TV on, go get a beer, come back, noodle on your phone for a while, and Oh! It's finally ready. Moving...

The product name CT100 has sort of been hijacked. The original version of CT100 for digital era installations had the dielectric made up of 5 hollow tubes. This is what's meant by semi-airspaced. There's a page on it with pictures from Wright's Aerials...

I suppose if @platforminc had an existing multiswitch switch installation then it would be a viable solution. As he's starting from scratch though it's less relevant The Arris 4K boxes can certainly cope with either legacy LNBs or wideband. Unless something has changed with the Q box specs, I...

I guess then it directs a quad in a way that emulates a quattro. So then, not that useful for @platforminc and his application. Was there another reason why you brought it up?

I haven't studied the documentation. The inputs look like those from Quattro to me. HH, HV, and so on. Like I said in an earlier post, satellite stuff is now on the periphery of what I do. Maybe you could advise @platforminc how he would connect this to feed 8 rooms with legacy signals? If he...

You're correct. There are a few solutions like this. Different ways to skin a cat. This one needs the signal from a Quattro LNB, or its pass-through via an older multiswitch installation. If the idea is to add a couple of feeds for a Q box onto an existing system without changing the main...

One or two of your local TV aerial guys could advise better. Local knowledge, and all that. The Octo is the simple solution, albeit with a lot of cable from the dish. Whether you go Octo or multiswitch, you still need a whole bunch of cables running to the rooms, so the extra cabling is really...

If I understand your question correctly then I think the answer is probably no, but I haven't looked too far into it to date so the situation may have changed. I think what you're asking is if there are any multi-output wideband LNBs. Is that right? As far as Sky Q installations go, you'd...

The Octo LNB is the cheapest way. You're going to hit a few snags though, especially if you want to incorporate Sky Q - an Octo feeding 8 rooms only allows for a single feed to each room. That's okay for just TVs, but it rules out using any kind of dual input recorder, so you don't have the...

The hybrid LNB might not be a bad option depending on whether you plan to record. We sacked Sky going on for 2-years ago. I watch most of my programming via streaming services, so I worked out that I hadn't watched a film or TV series off Sky for about 6 months. My wife and I then looked at...

And after all that, Australia still doesn't have the sheer density of digital TV transmitters on the ground that the UK does, so the problem of juggling all the UHF frequencies isn't the same either. Add to that, Oz uses a bigger UHF range. You have 42 individual channels between RF Ch28 and...

It is more expensive, but not massively so. A decent terrestrial aerial is around £20-£40 ($40-$80 AUD). A perfectly serviceable 60cm sat dish with quad LNB and wall mount would be around £40-£60 ($80-$100 AUD). What you're perhaps overlooking is the difference in geography and in population...

I'm not speaking for Eric, but I have to say that I'm a bit flabbergasted by your reply. I hope it's just the way it's written and not what you actually mean, because if you really meant it, then this would display a shocking lack of empathy. You don't understand his issue!?! What's so...

I think you might be misinterpreting the data. They're not counting people or people watching. They're counting homes (houses, flats, etc) within the signal reach of the transmitter. The data is quite old, and it's likely more houses have been built since. That's the most practical way that...