RE: Video....whats the word .....and then distribution!!

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have to say, I'm more than happy with the quality of decent composite
video
myself.



I use my XBox (XBMC naturally) and Tivo as AV sources (plus a media server
with Winamp as Audio only), and the Projector and two TVs as outputs.



I used to use a 4 way switch from Maplin to choose the source, and a little
4way AV distro amp from Keene electronics to boost the output of this for
routing around the house.



I actually have SCART cable in the walls to most rooms. It was kinda cool
at
the time, but it's a complete PITA to work with and I would not do the same
again. I'd prefer AV over CAT5 any time now.



The drawback of this system is that it's essentially single zone - that
suits us for 90% of the time, but I'm now planning to get a 4x4 Matrix
switch to let me route any to any, and have a couple of "zones".



I have a kitchen PC - really an old 15" TFT mounted on/in the wall
with a PC
in the cupboard behind it - I'm planning to upgrade this guy with a decent
VIVO card to let me feed the same composite signal to the Kitchen that's
being fed to the Projector in the living room.



I guess I'll have to sit down and do a "proper" design at some
point, but
this is working okay for us just now.



Ian.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
noel_pilot
Sent: 04 September 2006 15:58
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Video....whats the word .....and then distribution!!



Hmmm ok another in the series of im in my new house and I wanna do
stuff posts!!

Thinking of shifting video around the house, and even just around my
lounge.
If I'm going to put all my boxes in the cupboard and cable to the tv
and projector then it makes sense to harmonise it a bit and run the
minimum of cables.

Plus if I spec it right it means I just 'HAVE' to go out and buy a new
tv!!

So currently i have composite from the tivo into my amp, altho I know
it can do better using RGB scart I think, composite from my xbox into
my amp and when i use projector i connect it to the projector using
component, I have my freeview which i don't think will work in my new
house, my cctv will output composite i guess from my pc, and god knows
what else.

so i'm looking for a box that will take a variety of input signals
ideally and push them all out over one type of cable (if it can do a
variety then all the better!!) now if i was able to spec component as
the output then i would have to buy a new tv!! LOL only really
looking at three or four outputs max,

so can anyone tell me what one of these is called, have seen talk of
video distribution but didn't think that included the changing of
cables etc,

any specific models wihtout spending the world or am i dreaming!?!

I seem to remember that some amplifiers can kind of do this? is that
right,

thanks

Noel





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