RE: digital TV and distribution wiring - KAT5 or Coax?

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

I have always advocated running a coax to each designated TV point.

Running several CAT5 cables will allow you to use KAT5 or whatever else you
wish.

The announcement of the new boxes from PACE sounds great at first glance
but
when you look at what is available Free To Air, there is very little. The
main channels with decent content are and always will be Pay TV channels.
Whilst SKY have recently become a little more accomodating allowing you to
have additional viewing cards the same as your main card for an extra
£12
per month, that is still a lot of money and very few people could justify
or
afford  a separate SKY box in each room.

Even if they could, a condition of the subscription is that the boxes are
all connected to the same fixed telepone line. Either way, you need a CAT5
cable for KAT5 distribution or a CAT5 cable for the phone line.

Run att least one co-ax (probably little need for 2 although it makes it
easier if you have a satellite decoder) and multiple CAT5 cables.

I know I have a vested interest in people installing CAT5 cable but I think
there has been more than enough comment here about people not installing as
much CAT5 as they should :-)

HTH

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: tomdubourg [mailto:thomas.dubourg@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 January 2002 15:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] digital TV and distribution wiring - KAT5 or Coax?


Hi all

I remember a discussion a few weeks ago with someone asking whether
to install a KAT5 only, Coax only or dual Kat 5/Coax system for his
tv distribution round the house.

With Pace's latest announcement of producing digital terrestrial set
top for free to air tv at affordable prices - does this mean that
the future of Coax is secured?

I think the main advantage of KAT5 was for superior TV picture
distribution, but had the disadvantage of being able to only
distribute one picture signal.

With these affordable new set top boxes, and new tellies coming
bundled with integrated digital receivers - Coax now has the
advantage of being able to distribute an excellent picture quality
and multiple channels..

The main problem that remains is being able to distribute digital
DVD/video sources on to the same feed as the terrestrial signal
coax. Digital terrestrial signal encoder anyone?? lol

Therefore for a new TV distribution install, a dual system is still
required. Coax for digital terrestrial, and KAT5 for DVD/video.

thoughts?

(I'm soon to embark on installing a TV distribution system into my
house)

Cheers

Tom





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