The two RF cables should give you the flexibility of running TV + Satellite or two separate satellite signals in each room.
IMO it's a little bit sad that it's still necessary to run analogue cables (whether video or audio) from room to room in this day and age. Really there's no technical reason why all these devices -- cable boxes, satellite STBs, DVD players, CD players, Empegs, TVs -- can't just have an Ethernet socket on the back and sort all the streaming out among themselves using UPnP. I guess there's legal/contractual reasons in some cases, though.
Peter
Mildly interesting story, when BBC Broadcasting House was undergoing it massive refit the boffins at R&D looked at how to replace the hundreds and hundreds of miles of audio, video and network cable and optical fiber which something more elegant. The answer was AES47 and ATM. The boffins loved the idea that only thing coming out of each studio was a pair of fibers (well two pairs actually for redundancy). On those fibers there was everything, programme sound, talkback, computer networks, automation and control, and in the case of a TV studio, video.
In the end, they went for the old discreet model of video cables, audio cables, CAT6, etc. As the cost of implementing it was huge. I worked on a project using ATM adaptors in PC's just for switching and control and the cost of the adaptors was quadruple that of the PC's that they were inside of, and they were just presented on RJ45, the fiber ones were even more expensive. Not that broadcast kit is cheap anyways.
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