Cables for wall mounting of TV

[hman]

I am going to be mounting my tv on the wall (stud partition).

I think I have the mounting worked out, but the plethora of cables is the bit that I'm not confident about.

I will need 2 x 6 or 7 metre HDMI cables

Q1. Can I run this in cat 6 with some sort of hdmi connector soldered to the end of the cable or should I run the cat 6 to a wall plate with an hdmi socket on it then connect to this with an hdmi cable?

Q2. Currently I have Sky+ (for the time being) so will need a Scart lead, are these available as a cable and plug seperately, if so is do you tak these to a wall socket or as a flying lead (as per the hdmi in Q1).

Q3. Phono cable, anything I need to be specifically buying - spec wise?

Q4. I will need to take 2 x hdmi (cat 6 I think?), 1 x scart, 1 x phono, and power ( about 100mm apart from the signal cables so seperate conduit) how many wall plates will I need??


I appreciate any help!!

[Plotloss]

1) Use HDMI rather than UTP cables. At 6 or 7m you'll be fine and in all likelyhood using long HDMIs is cheaper than using Baluns and 2xUTP cables.

2) SCART carries either Composite video and Audio which can be replaced with 3 x Coaxial leads or RGB and Audio which can be replaced with 5 x Coaxial leads.

3) Very cheap phono cables use a twisted pair arrangement rather than coax, so just run 2 x Coaxial.

4) Rather depends, if the outlets are covered, just use a brush plate arrangement top and bottom, far easier and cheaper.

[headcase]

Stay away from wall plates unless you specifically have to have them, they look nice in catalogues but in RL they are a PITA (Just another place for a bad connection), so if you can just use long cables and to make the cable exit nice and neat then i normally use a blanking plate modified with a Dremel. You may also want to put in an Optical if indeed your TV uses it for audio out just incase you will want to feed an audio system at a later date.

[allgonepetetong]

Slight hijack, but I am using wall plates and banana plugs for my 5.1 audio (equipment outside the room in a cupboard under the stairs)

I haven't yet moved in so not been able to test it but do you think I will have problems with connections or will these be OK?

I do not have any wall plates for video.

[[AJ]]

allgonepetetong said:

Slight hijack, but I am using wall plates and banana plugs for my 5.1 audio (equipment outside the room in a cupboard under the stairs)

I haven't yet moved in so not been able to test it but do you think I will have problems with connections or will these be OK?

I do not have any wall plates for video.

I used wall plates and banana plugs for my speakers in my last house and I never had a problem with the connections. It was all very neat. This time I'm going to wire directly though, just because fitting sockets would be a PTA in this instance.

[Thudd]

Unsure of your rig, but www.thatcable.com have been getting 5star reviews recently and do lengthy HDMI cables for not a lot.
Could you get away with just plastering in some trunking?

http://www.whathifi.com/Review/ThatCable-HDMI/

They do up to 20m, I think.

[headcase]

Bananna plugs are quite robust so they will proberbly be ok, scarts and HDMI's can be quite finikey so plates are not really the best idea for those.