Re: Cable feeds to TV?

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tracey,

I've run the following to my Sony X3500 LCD:
1x coax (for freeview & "magic eye" control of Sky box)
3x cat5 (might've been 4x, can't quite remember...)
2x HDMI
1x VGA
1x stereo audio / 3.5mm jack plug

And they're all run in a duct :-)

Not all are being used but I figured the quantity, and combination,
would cover most eventualities. Apart from the screen we have no other
av kit in the room - it's all hidden away in the upstairs wiring
closet.

HTH,

Tim.


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Peter and Jane
<pandj.munnoch@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Tracey
> I will leave others to say how many cat5e's, hdmi's etc, but while you
ar=
e at it how about a length of duct or rigid tube? I did this, sort of
jokin=
gly saying if fibre optic or whatever became a standard I could cope. Blow
=
me down hdmi came along before we had finished building. It is now in the
d=
uct.
> Rgds
> Peter
> =A0----- Original Message -----
> =A0From: Tracey Gardner
> =A0To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> =A0Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:40 PM
> =A0Subject: [ukha_d] Cable feeds to TV?
>
>
> =A0When I first started planning the house that I am in the final
stages =
of
> =A0building, LCD and Plasma screens were only things in the science
ficti=
on
> =A0books and TVs were large CRT jobs which occupied the corner of a
room.
>
> =A0I provided plenty of CT100 coax and CT5 into what I thought would
be a=
ny
> =A0probable TV location.
> =A0However as we have reached the stage of deciding what furniture we
wan=
t in
> =A0the living room and LCD/Plasma have become the norm, it has become
obv=
ious
> =A0that any TV/screen will not be located in the corner of the room.
>
> =A0I have one large wall which will accommodate a nice large screen
but
> =A0unfortunately it is a location that I had not anticipated putting a
sc=
reen
> =A0in! :-)
> =A0Luckily this wall is an internal cavity wall as it was built to
lose a=
soil
> =A0pipe coming down from the first floor, so I have the capability of
bei=
ng
> =A0able to drop/fish cables down the empty cavity.
>
> =A0What I would like to know is what cables I need to be catering for.
> =A0I will need power and an antenna feed/s, I don't have at the
moment, S=
ky but
> =A0would like to allow for that in the future.
> =A0I will also need to allow for a feed for a DVD player/recorder
which w=
ill be
> =A0accommodated in the corner of the room adjacent to the screen.
Again I=
can
> =A0feed the signals to the TV/screen via the cavity.
>
> =A0What other cables do I need to allow for?
>
> =A0Thanks
>
> =A0Tracey


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