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I'm looking at ways to distribute hd around the house, common problem I know. The two ways I was aware of until today were long hdmi cables and some distribution amp/splitter thing as a hub or point to point over a pair of cat5 cables using baluns.
Today I stumbled upon vecoax kit in the states and while I've found it for sale in the uk, it's pretty expensive (1k+) but can use existing coax.
Any one tried it? Any thoughts on alternatives?
Today I stumbled upon vecoax kit in the states and while I've found it for sale in the uk, it's pretty expensive (1k+) but can use existing coax.
Any one tried it? Any thoughts on alternatives?
For reference, these are HD Modulators that take a HDMI In and create a Freeview HD channel to send around the house. Just like the rf2 output but this is in HD and within your Freeview channel line up.
I have tried two of them on four different sky boxes and they all manifested the same problem.
Picture quality was stunning but if you turned the sky box off and the. Back on again, they dropped the audio. It then to five or six attempts to restart the sky box with audio, just not acceptable for a custom installation.
Returned them this morning and got two on order from a different manufacturer ZeeVee which I have been using on other projects and the are good no issues so far and quite a simple web set up. But they are a commercial solution so you need to limit their output quite a lot for domestic systems.
Would happily supply one to you, they are a similar price and come as 1, 2 & 4 input flavours all of which set up the same way.
PM me is you want a supplier.
V.
I have tried two of them on four different sky boxes and they all manifested the same problem.
Picture quality was stunning but if you turned the sky box off and the. Back on again, they dropped the audio. It then to five or six attempts to restart the sky box with audio, just not acceptable for a custom installation.
Returned them this morning and got two on order from a different manufacturer ZeeVee which I have been using on other projects and the are good no issues so far and quite a simple web set up. But they are a commercial solution so you need to limit their output quite a lot for domestic systems.
Would happily supply one to you, they are a similar price and come as 1, 2 & 4 input flavours all of which set up the same way.
PM me is you want a supplier.
V.
Edited by VEX on Monday 15th September 18:07
Edited by VEX on Monday 15th September 18:08
I've come across Promax which touches on the problem you mention and claim to have an answer. Either way, unless they're a lot less than £700 they're more than I wanted to pay.
http://www.pulsat.com/products/Promax-EN%252d206-H...
http://www.pulsat.com/products/Promax-EN%252d206-H...
They both come from the same factory in China and are tweaked to manufacturers preference.
The ZeeVee's are designed and built in the USA and very easy to set up, but no, the prices you mention are to close to trade to even both selling at. Rrp's of these should all be up around £900/£1000 per channel.
But if you consider that can provide an almost infinite number of tv's it is far better value than a fixed output matrix.
V.
The ZeeVee's are designed and built in the USA and very easy to set up, but no, the prices you mention are to close to trade to even both selling at. Rrp's of these should all be up around £900/£1000 per channel.
But if you consider that can provide an almost infinite number of tv's it is far better value than a fixed output matrix.
V.
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