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...I've been doing the home media thing with both DirecTV and FiOS for years...here's what you do...

1) Hook up ONE box somewhere in your house that has two coaxial cables running to it...most houses geared for Media General have this setup. The other end of the cables should be where your satellite/FiOS line and coax home runs converge.

2) Hook up one coax from the source to the box...and hook an output of the box up to a TV if'n ya want.

3) Then...take a secondary output (component) from the box and run it into a RF modulator which will convert it to a coaxially transmitted signal (tune in to channel 3 or 4 on the other end to get sound and picture). This line can be split up to your heart's content and shipped out to any location in your house that has a single cable and a TV with coax input.

4) For remote control of the single box, use something like a powermid from X-10.

Very inexpensive solution that does the same thing as the home media solution, and you only have to rent (*sigh* back to Bell Telephone days again with renting everything) ONE box for an unlimited number of TVs! Of course, everyone watching those TVs has to like the same shows. ;-P

I still have 2 FiOS DVRs and one HD box (no DVR) so my kids and wife can do their own thing and I can nod off to something entirely different in the basement.

Matt