Your TV's antenna socket can only receive free terrestrial stations like ABC, SBS, Seven, Nine, & Ten. Its built-in TV tuner can only receive those channels via a cable connected to a TV antenna.
If you connect the TV's antenna socket to a satellite dish wall-socket, it may not receive any channels.
Commercial operators such as Foxtel encrypt their channels to stop people from watching them for free. Your TV does not have any way to decrypt those satellite channels - extra equipment is needed to do this.
Foxtel can rent you a satellite decryption box (IQ4 or IQ5) that sits between the satellite dish wall socket and your TV's HDMI input. You will need to pay them to view their channels.
Foxtel will normally supply suitable screw-fitting cables with their satellite decryption box. If you have lost your satellite wall-socket-to-box cables, or need longer cables, search for F-plug on our site .
We do sell HDMI splitters and HDMI extenders, however we can't guarantee that they will continue to work indefinitely with commercial pay-TV decryption boxes. This is because pay-TV providers may remotely force an update to their box's HDMI output that can block existing splitters and extenders from being used. They can rent you a decryption box for each extra TV.
For socket and cable installations, or multi-room broadcasting, please consult an expert.
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