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RE: HD Structured Wiring?

Posted by blue_z (A) on July 31, 2007 at 13:53:00

In Reply to: RE: HD Structured Wiring? posted by Audio Snob on July 29, 2007 at 17:01:19:

Hi there

Some miscellaneous thoughts:

. the 8 STB "solution" has the highest recurring costs, but has the lowest installation costs (money, time and knowledge) and needs ony RG-6 coax. It will also be the least likely to become obsolete over the next 10-15 years (assuming you rent the STBs and can upgrade them).

. you'll probably need to find out what kind of outputs are available from your cableTV company's STB. Is it the full gamut of s-video, component, DVI and HDMI?

. the output of an STB is intended to be connected to a nearby display, so distribution of that video + audio signals is not trivial. HDMI is the single-cable solution, and there are HDMI splitters but HDMI cable length is a concern. But from what I've read, I wouldn't put any HDMI cable into the walls until the source to display connection was tested out.

. are all the displays at the outlets digital TVs? If you plan on using any analog TVs, then converting STB svideo+audio to RF (channel 3 or 4) will lose some signal quality but could be distributed over RG-6.

. a computer network may be the elegant solution. It would use Cat5e cable, and a tuned channel could viewed at any or all outlets. But it has high costs, and since you're using cable TV rather than OTA, only the clear QAM channels could be received and distributed over Ethernet.

Regards

Edits: 07/31/07

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