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Has anyone heard when this is meant to be hitting the market?

I'm in the process of wiring the house for AV before the walls are replastered and floors are replaced so now is the ideal time but apart from multiple runs of cat5e i'm finding it difficult to actually work out what is need to run HD round the whole house as most systems like Opus do everything I want apart from the HD.

Help gratefully appreciated

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I'm going to run 3 to 4 to every location but am unsure what else to run (HDMI, Optical, Co-ax etc) and also whether to run to the TV locations or to an area where a wall mounted keypad would be situated and then a run from there to the TV point

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Vex - that's much appreciated. I don't really have a budget in mind as it all depends on level of equipment. I need to run the cables in the next 2 weeks so any advice on exactly what to run alongside cat5/6.

My initial aim was to have media cupboard with a couple of Sky + boxes alongside, blueray, Xbox, music centre, Tv, telephone etc that is then all accessed via any tv or zone with speakers mounted in the ceiling and controllable via standard remotes.

So based on that any advice will be greatly received

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Hi Vex

thanks for all the info. another question for you.

As the restoration is still ongoing, I need to pick up some short term solutions. I have run 4 cat 6 to each each TV point and need a solution to get 2 TV's working for when we move in so I assume some Baluns will be the best option.

What kit would you recommend for a direct link from sky hd box (in media cupboard) to tv that includes IR transmitting over cat6 based on quality and cost?

thanks for your help

Andy

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It would be about 25 metres or so poss a bit more. They could be reused but quality needs to be traded off against price as will be going the matrix route eventually so don't want to blow a pot on these as they will be temporary albeit for 3-6 months or so.