Advice - multi-room setup
Discussion
Been bashing my head on this one and wondering whether you could help.
I've got a TV in one room with oldish Dolby receiver taking optical in from the TV. All inputs to the TV are HDMI; Xbox 360, Foxsat HDR, and BD player.
I want to get a TV in another room, and be able to use the same sources. The second room is quite a distance, about 20 metres and a few walls away. There's already coax between the rooms, but I don't want to install any more wires. It's just a very tricky route because of the build of the house.
Basically my understanding is HDMI is about a 7.5gbits data rate, so the only way you can carry it over copper is with short distances, or else repeaters etc in the way. The only copper there is the coax, and no way of putting repeaters in, so no chance.
Another solution I thought about was just getting a second 360, HDR and BD. Problem is, this is a messy solution as I will have different saved games on the 360, two different Xbox live accounts, have to work out where I want to watch a film before renting it on Zune etc. Same is true for the Foxsat HDR, I don't want to have to tell two different setups to record programmes.
The way I'm thinking about doing it is an ethernet over coax kit, which should get me 50mbits or so, and then some kind of encoding/decoding box (like Slingbox?) that transmits over ethernet. I will have to accept some quality loss as a result, but shouldn't be the end of the world. It should be pretty easy to repeat the infrared signals the other way, and convert Xbox 360 controller signals to infrared for repeating. The concern is the latency though, with an encode/decode process in the way will it make 360 games unplayable?
Sort of running out of ideas so any input would be welcome!
I've got a TV in one room with oldish Dolby receiver taking optical in from the TV. All inputs to the TV are HDMI; Xbox 360, Foxsat HDR, and BD player.
I want to get a TV in another room, and be able to use the same sources. The second room is quite a distance, about 20 metres and a few walls away. There's already coax between the rooms, but I don't want to install any more wires. It's just a very tricky route because of the build of the house.
Basically my understanding is HDMI is about a 7.5gbits data rate, so the only way you can carry it over copper is with short distances, or else repeaters etc in the way. The only copper there is the coax, and no way of putting repeaters in, so no chance.
Another solution I thought about was just getting a second 360, HDR and BD. Problem is, this is a messy solution as I will have different saved games on the 360, two different Xbox live accounts, have to work out where I want to watch a film before renting it on Zune etc. Same is true for the Foxsat HDR, I don't want to have to tell two different setups to record programmes.
The way I'm thinking about doing it is an ethernet over coax kit, which should get me 50mbits or so, and then some kind of encoding/decoding box (like Slingbox?) that transmits over ethernet. I will have to accept some quality loss as a result, but shouldn't be the end of the world. It should be pretty easy to repeat the infrared signals the other way, and convert Xbox 360 controller signals to infrared for repeating. The concern is the latency though, with an encode/decode process in the way will it make 360 games unplayable?
Sort of running out of ideas so any input would be welcome!
Not cheap - but you could use something like this
http://keydigital.com/IW_Products.m4p.pvx?;ITEM?It...
http://keydigital.com/IW_Products.m4p.pvx?;ITEM?It...
Gassing Station | Home Cinema & Hi-Fi | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff