HDMI modulator to AV amp and projector ?

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malsat

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Hi

I am put sky through an HDMI modulator into a distribution amp then to all rooms,

this is fine and TV's show HD pictures,

But how do I then get it back to HDMI to go into Amp and projector in cinema room ?

Do I need to go into a freeview box first then out ?

Old set up was sky analog into VHS recorder then HDMI out into amp

thanks

mal
 
It sounds like you are modulating HDMI into a DVB-T (T2?) signal and then distributing it over coax? If so then a Freeview HD or generic DVB-T2 receiver should work fine.

Out of interest how good is the picture quality and are frame rate & resolution preserved?
 
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Will have to give one of these a go, all the HDMI capture devices I've tried don't handle 1080i correctly (will use it with a DVB-T2 tuner), also much easier to get coax through walls rather than chunky HDMI cables.
 
Yes, they are excellent, I have two of the Technomate ones. Both power supplies died recently but easily replaced...
 
If you input 1080i50 do you get 1080i50 output?

I notice in the Technomate manual it says it doesn't work with HD Ready televisions, only 1080p which makes me think it may be converting everything to 1080p. Perhaps it should say DVB-T2 or Freeview HD sets only. All the HDMI capture cards I tried converted 1080i50 to 1080p25 or 1080p30 - absolutely useless for sports.
 
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If you input 1080i50 do you get 1080i50 output?

I notice in the Technomate manual it says it doesn't work with HD Ready televisions, only 1080p which makes me think it may be converting everything to 1080p. Perhaps it should say DVB-T2 or Freeview HD sets only. All the HDMI capture cards I tried converted 1080i50 to 1080p25 or 1080p30 - absolutely useless for sports.
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Looking at the Amazon reviews for that Technomate TM RF HD modulator, one of the reviewers notes it as outputting "1080i over DVB even though the specs say 1080p" so I'm guessing from that that it does hopefully just pass through 1080i50.

There's some mention of 1080p TVs and DVB-T2 but I would be surprised if it wasn't just 1080i over regular DVB-T. A DVB-T multiplex supports a bitrate of up to around 31Mbps which is plenty for a single MPEG4 1080i stream with decent quality, probably even with a mediocre encoder (most compressed MPEG4 HD TV has an average bitrate more like 4 or 5Mbps, with peaks of around 10-12Mbps or 17-18Mbps at the absolute most). Some pretty old "HD Ready" TVs only supported 720p signals at one time which might be part of this too.

Typical annoying marketing speak hiding what the device actually technically does I suppose in that case!
 
Confirms Adam792's theory of it being DVB-T MPEG4. I'll definitely be giving one of these a go :)
 
If a member has one of the modulators and a dual tuner Octagon they could verify the specification on a DVB-T2 broadcast.
 
I use a Vu solo 4K into my modulator then to distribution amp to other TVs
Can't do in 4K as other TVs aren't 4K so send in 1080p mode.
 
If the SKY signal is multichannel audio you will only have stereo after the modulator.
It's a shame for a home cinema room.
 
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