Networking my house, what about TV?
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I am currently networking my house. I am installing cat6 utp throughout. I have a server cabinet, 24 way patch panel, 24 way gigabit switch and a Qnap 8 bay NAS. but I am limited to a 35 mb internet connection. Whilst I am currently wiring the cat6 everywhere I am not sure what to do with the TV's I want in every room?
I only have a Sky dish and digi box at the moment. I intend installing cat 6 face plates, but I would like to either send the TV over the cat 6 or stick an airiel connection on the face plates.
If I want to watch a bluray movie from my NAS I currently have to use a PC under my TV as anything else I have tried is just not powerfull enough to stream it smoothly (8-10gb per movie)
I only have a Sky dish and digi box at the moment. I intend installing cat 6 face plates, but I would like to either send the TV over the cat 6 or stick an airiel connection on the face plates.
If I want to watch a bluray movie from my NAS I currently have to use a PC under my TV as anything else I have tried is just not powerfull enough to stream it smoothly (8-10gb per movie)
You have three options, but in reality, only one wiring one.
As a partner to your CAT6 network I always automatically wire at least one Coax/TV cable for each tv location, best would be two, because then you could wire for a local sky box. In key rooms (lounge, playroom, master bed) wire three, because then you can send the tv signal from the sky box back to the hub location and then out to the rest of the house.
If you do this, your three options are, in cost order (low to high)
1: Sky box out at the main tv, then feed the RF2 output back to the main hub as an analogue TV channel for the other tv's to tune into.
2: Sky box at main hub or at the main tv, then encode the HDMI output to create a Freeview HD channel that can be fed around the house for the other TV's to tune into.
3: Sky box at the main hub, use HDMI Baluns to send the signal out to either one or many tv's
Does that help?
V.
As a partner to your CAT6 network I always automatically wire at least one Coax/TV cable for each tv location, best would be two, because then you could wire for a local sky box. In key rooms (lounge, playroom, master bed) wire three, because then you can send the tv signal from the sky box back to the hub location and then out to the rest of the house.
If you do this, your three options are, in cost order (low to high)
1: Sky box out at the main tv, then feed the RF2 output back to the main hub as an analogue TV channel for the other tv's to tune into.
2: Sky box at main hub or at the main tv, then encode the HDMI output to create a Freeview HD channel that can be fed around the house for the other TV's to tune into.
3: Sky box at the main hub, use HDMI Baluns to send the signal out to either one or many tv's
Does that help?
V.
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