Proposed TV setup

[w3llus]

Hi,
I will be moving house in the next month or so so i have planned to cable and install all my kit, below is the proposed install
Any comments or improvements welcome.



My current setup is alot smaller than this so if anyone can point out any mistakes i would be very grateful

Thanks
Nick

[Simpo Two]

Ah so that's how you get internet on the TV!



Think I'll take up knitting instead

Edited by Simpo Two on Tuesday 16th February 12:58

[Sleekitman]

Erm..Looks good to me.Good luck.

[bitwrx]

SHouldn't the arrows going to the Windows media extenders from the aerial actually be going to the TVs.

Surely you only need the TV signal going to the server for all your dvr needs, so you can then stream it to the other PCs.

Or have i got the wrong end of the stick?

[sjg]

That seems a bit odd to me too - I'd just have an aerial feed or two to a box with a couple of tuner cards and record away from there. Have regular feeds to the TVs for live TV. Presumably the Sky HD box will be used for recording too.

Would recommend Windows Home Server in place of 2008 too - much better disk management, decent PC backup and the like too, out of the box.

[JuniorD]

I think I spot a mistake in the setup.

TV says its Samsung.

[w3llus]

The only reason i have the Ariel going to the TV tuner in the Media box in the kitchen and bedroom is so that the user (ME) will be able to flick to live TV, films or music without having to change the TV source.

At the moment im unsure whether to plug my HTPC into the Arial feed as i have my SkyHD box there.

Has any used the HDMI Balons yet?
Whats the distance on them with CAT5e?

[w3llus]

JuniorD said:

I think I spot a mistake in the setup.

TV says its Samsung.

Im glad you

Im a secret Samsung fanboy!

[sparkythecat]

w3llus said:

The only reason i have the Ariel going to the TV tuner in the Media box ........

That's definitely wrong

The Ariel should go in the washing mnachine.

[N10k]

sparkythecat said:

w3llus said:

The only reason i have the Ariel going to the TV tuner in the Media box ........

That's definitely wrong

The Ariel should go in the washing mnachine.

They should sack Peter Kay from presenting the Brits and have sparkythecat instead as hes much funnier

[Plotloss]

Are there Media Centre extenders which accept their own local UHF Feeds?

Or does each zone have its own Media Centre PC utilising central storage on the 2008 box?

You'll be good with the HDMI baluns in all residential situations but termination is absolutely critical as is installation of the cable.

[strudel]

Might help if you move the Samsung from the lounge to the living room.

[Simpo Two]

strudel said:

Might help if you move the Samsung from the lounge to the living room.

'Withdrawing Room' if you please...

[headcase]

sparkythecat said:

w3llus said:

The only reason i have the Ariel going to the TV tuner in the Media box ........

That's definitely wrong

The Ariel should go in the washing mnachine.

Very true, its the Aerial that goes into the TV.

[w3llus]

Plotloss said:

Are there Media Centre extenders which accept their own local UHF Feeds?

Or does each zone have its own Media Centre PC utilising central storage on the 2008 box?

You'll be good with the HDMI baluns in all residential situations but termination is absolutely critical as is installation of the cable.

The Kitchen and Bedroom will both have a UHF feed going to the Media Extender.
The HTPC most likely wont as i will have a HD box in the lounge.

Im now considering using Windows Home Server and using that to store/manage all my media.

Plotless, you sound like you have used the HDMI Baluns before, when you say the termination is critical, could you explain a bit more.
I thought that

HDMI single cable goes into the balun, 2 cat5e cables, then HDMI balun again to another HDMI cable = TV
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Edited by w3llus on Wednesday 17th February 09:07

[Plotloss]

That's right with regards to the baluns, don't terminate with faceplates, come out of the wall and terminate directly with plugs. Each of the two cables will need to be as close to identical length as possible.

Which media centre extenders are you using?

[w3llus]

im either going to use a Xbox360, but i think im going to use a DC7700 with 3gb of RAM which will be located in the study in a rack.

That should be ok?

[Plotloss]

How will a 360 take a local UHF feed?

It's not got an aerial socket on it.

One of us is confused here on what you're looking to achieve.

Unless you're talking about a UHF feed into the television directly. Which is obviously fine.

[w3llus]

[quote=Plotloss]How will a 360 take a local UHF feed?

It's not got an aerial socket on it.

One of us is confused here on what you're looking to achieve.

Unless you're talking about a UHF feed into the television directly. Which is obviously fine.[/quoteSorry Potloss,
My main aim is to get TV, my music library and film/series library all as close as possible to one and other, the kitchen screen will be a dell 19 or 22" touch screen so i think il be using a dc7700 as my extender.

my other idea was to take a hdmi balun and take a hdmi feed to the screen and use my xbox as the extender but im going with my first plan of a PC as my extender

Does it sound like it will work