RE: KAT5

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

Err haven't we been here before with egg cartons on the walls for sound
deadening? :-))

I have had the honour of being with Phil in both his bedroom and his garage
with the lights off, bugger should not have mentioned that!

B.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 October 2001 00:08
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] KAT5
>
>
> > So I could use a Sender per device located in the Home Cinema
> > room to transmit to several receivers in different rooms, via a
loft-
> > based patch panel.
>
> Yup...
>
> > Not having seen this cool equipment before, I'm still trying to
> > visualise it all in my head.
>
> Sure ... no worries.
>
> > And then in each room I'd need a TV with multiple input
> > connections so it can be connected to each KAT5 receiver. I then
> > toggle the TV input to choose what I watch. Is that even vaguelly
> > right?!
>
> Not quite ... you route each source into the switcher either
> directly or by
> a KAT5 transmitter. Each room or "zone" in your house that
you
> want to watch
> in has it's own KAT5 receiver. The switcher sorts out routing the
> signals to
> the right rooms.
>
> > Rules out my spare portable TV at the moment then as it only has
> > a single SCART.
>
> Nope ... that's perfect!
>
> > Just shout at me, all, when this gets too boring for the list
> > members and I'll take it to email.
>
> Rule number 1 : No one shouts at anyone here ... stupid questions are
only
> stupid when they're not asked. We all start from nowhere and we all
learn.
> The guys on this group taught me everything I know (or at least
> gave me the
> incentive to look).
>
> > BTW, why in the garage? I've often wondered why people convert
> > their garage, but I guess it gets thing out of the house. It's
just that
> > the garage always seems a little exposed to me. In my garage,
> > along with the car & motorbike, if I had Private Ryan doing
his war
> > thing, people walking past on the street would likely know about
it!
> > NOT what I'd want. Luckily my Home Cinema room is at the back
> > of the house so it's just the neighbours that know it's on, if
> > anybody, and not every joe walking past.
>
> My garage is 17ft long x 9.5ft wide x 7.5 ft high ... it has a
> door in from
> the house and no windows. It is below my bedroom so if I'm
> watching a movie
> I'm not disturbing anyone except myself. I will be insulating the
garage
> door (probably with a sandbag wall) to stop the sound escaping and so
from
> the outside you shouldn't hear anything much. I can finish the walls
how I
> want (the missus wouldn't like carpet underlay battened to the walls
to
> deaden reflections in the living room) and I can have the place
completely
> dark - I can also do the electrics how I want and arrange kit and
speakers
> to be in the right places rather than having to look what SWMBO calls
> "nice".
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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