Virgin + Terrestrial TV signal down 1 cable?

[jaykay1975]

Hi All

I hope some of you might share your knowledge with me.... I've recently moved into a new house, and I'm in the process of gutting it before redecorating. One of the things on my list is sorting out a good combining Terrestrial TV & Virgin TV signal to every room where it might be needed (now and future). I may not subscribe to Virgin in the future, hence my reason for having both going into each room, rather than 1. My plan was to:

First, connect the terrestrial arial into a signal splitter + powered booster (1 box joby) in the loft, then drop cables down into each room.

Second, connect virgin media into a completely different splitter, with 8 F connectors (but no booster this time) on it, and again drop a seperate cable into every room.

So each room would have 2 cables and a dual connector box (1 F & 1 normal TV).

However, reading around a little on the web I think I've missed a trick.

1) Can I actuialy combine both Virgin + Terrestrial TV signal and send it down 1 set of cables, instead of 2?
2) How do combine the 2 (what kit do I need to buy?)
3) can I still use my powered booster / spliter?

Any best practice / alternative suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[chucklor]

I dont know why you need a seprate cable for virgin and a digital aerial if you have the virgin freeveiw you will get the same channels as if you have a digital signal and vice versa so in theory you would just be replocating your channels, I would personally run a "satellite cable" to each room and then take all these to a splitter and drop a cable from the splitter to your tv point, also drop your dig aerial via a seperate cable to the same point, this way you have the option to have digital tv through a aerial, or virgin TV or the option for sky tv. Hope this may be useful.