The only IR receiver I've used is the separate one that I have sitting on top of the TV (I set it up because the entertainment center we had just purchased at the time has doors that block many of the IR receivers on the equipment), but my Model 950 (and the Model 1070 and 970 are this way as well) worked fine with accepting signals from the Xantech distribution block (no detrimental effect on other circuitry inside the Outlaw) so I'd expect the opposite (IR out from the Outlaw to IR on on a Xantech block) to work as well.