RE: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000

["Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry should have been a little clearer, 6 ZERO's!
But I guess even thats not much money in real terms for London housing
thes=
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days :-(

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison (Yahoo!) [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 May 2004 15:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] How to spend =A35,000
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> Wireless options, eh :-)
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> Audio is easy. Go with the Squeezebox (wireless SliMP3) and a
decentish P=
C
> (big hard drive) as an MP3 server. Not only is the music replay
reasonable,
> but the display is clear, and addressable by xAP (and I'm pretty sure
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> Ian - can you confirm?) so can display other kinds of info.
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> Consequent to this, an 802.11g basestation, obviously.
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> Videoserverwise, it's possible, but if you're on wireless, then I'd go
with
> PC technology as the playback device.
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> The bandwidth limitations mean that you won't really be able to do VOD
> (Video on Demand) for every room independantly. (that's why you need
wires.)
> As you can probably guess, I'm going to recommend VideoLan
> (www.videolan.org) for the streaming server _and_ client for one
simple
> reason... it does multicast. 802.11g will happily play 1 video channel
in
> high quality.
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> The point about multicast is that it allows the Video server to stream
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t
a
> video... but have multiple clients pick it up in sync without opening
a
> second connection to the server (and taking up double the bandwidth.)
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> Useful for watching a film, and continuining to watch it while nipping
ou=
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> to the kitchen to make a coffee, or whatever.
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> Add VideoLAN's streaming from input, and a suitable card on the
server,
and
> lo, wireless distribution of Sky/FreeView round the house over the
same
> infrastructure as your movie server uses.
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> Lighting is harder. I'd tell him to wait a few months. There are going
to
be
> some interesting options for wireless lighting control very soon
indeed.
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> Oh - and add a Roomba per floor, you know it makes sense.
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> Finally - 6 figures isn't expensive for a house any more. Round here
(one
of
> the cheapest areas within 45 minutes of London), you will not find
ANYTHING
> for under 6 figures, which, after all, starts at =A3100,000.  A studio
fl=
at
> will come in about about =A3110k.
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> Regards,
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> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:05 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] How to spend =A35,000
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> I thought this might be a fun one to throw at the group. A mate of
mine
here
> at work has just bought himself a new home.
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> Unfortunately although it's a new house he's bought it close to
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n
> so the ability to integrate any wiring is going to be difficult. For a
start
> the walls are all decorated, the floors are all polished solid oak! So
no
> hole cutting ;-)
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> BUT, he's got 5k he wants to spend on whole house audio and video.
What
> should be his top 10 purchases?
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> Can you believe a builder (A big exclusive homes one.) who's built 4
> exclusive 6 figure homes and there is not a sniff of CAT5 or
automation i=
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> ANY of the rooms.
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> CRIMINAL!
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> Rob
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