TVs around house with movies stored on server in basement.

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Gary - 22 Nov 2008 03:59 GMT

I am building a house and doing the wiring right now. I want to be able to watch movies in the bedrooms and great room that are stored on a computer that will be in a closet in the basement. What would be the best way to set this up to watch the stored movies in these rooms? What do I need to wire for right now before the drywall goes up? Thankyou for your input. Gary

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jch - 02 Dec 2008 01:32 GMT

Why don't you just run RG6 coax from the basement to each room you'd
invision having a TV? Each run should be a homerun. No breaks or splices.

I am building a house and doing the wiring right now. I want to be able to
watch movies in the bedrooms and great room that are stored on a computer
that will be in a closet in the basement. What would be the best way to set
this up to watch the stored movies in these rooms? What do I need to wire
for right now before the drywall goes up? Thankyou for your input. Gary

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Frank Olson - 02 Dec 2008 05:31 GMT

> Why don't you just run RG6 coax from the basement to each room you'd
> invision having a TV? Each run should be a homerun. No breaks or splices.

I'd run HDMI cable everywhere, along with a CAT 5.
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5023

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B Fuhrmann - 02 Dec 2008 13:04 GMT

What kind of flexibility do you want?

One movie sent simultaneously to all TVs or allowing each TV to decide what
to watch when they want to watch it?

Sending a video signal via RG6 or HDMI will get you one program (two if you
run a dual system) into every TV.

To allow the people to watch what you want, when you want, you would be
talking setting up a video server onto a network (wired or wireless, I would
think that wired is better) and have a network player in each room.

I haven't started looking seriously at this yet but know that some of the
PVR software will work that way, using a local processor to display the
video that is recorded (including TV programs via a receiver card in the
server) on a local display.
I was hoping that a very minimal (footprint) computer could be set up with
that really only needs the screen display and a pointing device to access
the menus for the video system (OK, and a keyboard when you want to check
email from that room).
I don't know but expect that there will be some sort of premade receiver for
this available that is less flexible and smaller than a computer.

I did happen to see an ad for a TV recently
(http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=39754
59&sku=S223-5094)
that had a wireless network connection for receiving video from a server
built into it.
I was thinking that this could lead to a server and possibly the network
receivers to put next to non-wireless TVs.

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> Why don't you just run RG6 coax from the basement to each room you'd
> invision having a TV? Each run should be a homerun. No breaks or
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> need to wire for right now before the drywall goes up? Thankyou for your
> input. Gary

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Gary - 06 Dec 2008 05:01 GMT

> What kind of flexibility do you want?
>
> One movie sent simultaneously to all TVs or allowing each TV to decide
> what to watch when they want to watch it?

> Sending a video signal via RG6 or HDMI will get you one program (two if
> you run a dual system) into every TV.

I have the RG6 in place now.

> To allow the people to watch what you want, when you want, you would be
> talking setting up a video server onto a network (wired or wireless, I
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>> do I need to wire for right now before the drywall goes up? Thankyou for
>> your input. Gary

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