New House "prewired for Virgin" - multiroom?
Discussion
I'm in the process of buying a new house at the moment, and the sales folk are not entirely clued up on what they mean when they advertise that the houses are "prewired for Virgin". I'll be able to speak to the site manager who will give me more detail, but i thought i would put it to you guys first!
I would assume prewired to mean that the phone and tv point in the main living room will be set up and installed all the way to the cabinet, and so just a simple activation is required by Virgin. I've never had Virgin before and don't know how i'll get along with it, but the broadband speed and general packages so far look good to me.
However, i will want the ability to watch three different HD channels independently in three different rooms in the house. How does Virgin handle that? In a Sky setup i know that i need to have cabling to each room from the dish (Sky Q aside). I can see in the showhome that there are TV points in each room of the house, but i expect them to be co-ax and not up to independent HD viewing. I am trying to specify Cat 6 for a few rooms, but i am expecting resistance.
So, what is required to watch 3x different HD channels with Virgin in different rooms in the house? And to those of you who have experience of "pre wired", what did you get?
I would assume prewired to mean that the phone and tv point in the main living room will be set up and installed all the way to the cabinet, and so just a simple activation is required by Virgin. I've never had Virgin before and don't know how i'll get along with it, but the broadband speed and general packages so far look good to me.
However, i will want the ability to watch three different HD channels independently in three different rooms in the house. How does Virgin handle that? In a Sky setup i know that i need to have cabling to each room from the dish (Sky Q aside). I can see in the showhome that there are TV points in each room of the house, but i expect them to be co-ax and not up to independent HD viewing. I am trying to specify Cat 6 for a few rooms, but i am expecting resistance.
So, what is required to watch 3x different HD channels with Virgin in different rooms in the house? And to those of you who have experience of "pre wired", what did you get?
I see, thanks!
Is standard coax enough for a virgin set top box to give full HD via that little box of tricks?
I'll hope that all TV points feed back to one of these splitters already, but assuming they don't, all I need to do is get that signal to wherever the existing coax terminates?
Thinking about future developments.. What about 4k?
Is standard coax enough for a virgin set top box to give full HD via that little box of tricks?
I'll hope that all TV points feed back to one of these splitters already, but assuming they don't, all I need to do is get that signal to wherever the existing coax terminates?
Thinking about future developments.. What about 4k?
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