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Old 26-07-2004, 15:27
Adrian Mole
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I am currently planning cabling for my new house and I want a cinema room in the cellar and the living room on the first floor to have Sky available from one box. I believe my best bet is to have a distribution amp but I am not sure as to what my requirements might be....

Kit layout should be as follows:
Cellar - projector, amp, dvd player, sky box /FTV only(
Living room - tv, amp, dvd recorder, sky, cd player(s)

I want to be able to watch Sky downstairs (the football/no mirror sub) and control Sky and the dvd recorder from upstairs and downstairs. I don't want to use a wireless videosender as my wireless lan interferes wtih the signal.

I also would like to pipe the B output of my amp to >1 other room and connect speakers there. I would anticipate having a wall switch in those rooms to turn off the speakers.

What am I looking at getting and does anyone have any product endorsements?

Thanks
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Old 26-07-2004, 16:14
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Originally Posted by Adrian Mole
I don't want to use a wireless videosender as my wireless lan interferes wtih the signal.
All you should need to do is change the channel that either your LAN operates on or the channel that the video sender works on. Apparently, most video senders come with a choice of 4 channels and you have a choice of up to 16 channels on a Windows PC (at least, maybe other OSes as well but I'm not sure).

I would personally suggest that you go for a video sender if you are going to be using it in a home cinema because it will be a much better quality as video senders use the SCART connection rather than RF.
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Old 26-07-2004, 20:42
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If youre dead against using a video sender (and StuL is right, it would be the best option) you could use a skylink "magic eye" such as this: http://www.satelliteonline.co.uk/tv_link_large.htm

You would have to run an RF cable to control the sky box upstairs, but you could run a higher quality video feed down into the cellar; s-video, composite or RGB.

This won't let you control the dvd recorder in the other room, but I see you have another dvd player in the cellar, so why would you need to?
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