Re: Audio Video Distribution Questions

["E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<vnegri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1129921331.926467.21450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I know there's a way to convert an a-bus signal into line-level rca for
> audio. I could probably do that to get audio to the TV. Now my question
> is with video. I would have to hook the coax to the back of the TV to
> get the cable feed and then use some form of converter to change the
> rca outputs from the CAV6.6 into coax or ethernet to be sent to the
> room and then convert it back again... right? Then in order to switch
> between live TV and the CAV6.6, I would have to use the input selector
> on the TV. What converter should I use?
>
> My other option is to convert A-Bus to rca audio in the distribution
> closet and then push those signals with the video out from the CAV6.6
> into an RF Modulator (if this is the correct way). I could take the
> output from the RF Modulator and use a combiner with the cable feed to
> send a signal over RG6 to each room. But this way, I would have to
> purchase a separate RF Modulator for each zone.
>
> What is the best design to get live cable and a signal from the CAV6.6
> to each room if I don't want to have in-wall speakers? Please detail
> the different converters I would need to use to utilize the RG6 and
> Cat5e runs to each room (I think that's where I'm stuck).


If you're using RG6 to send just a composite video signal (not modulated
audio/video), then all you need to do is crimp RCA connectors to it instead
of Coax, or get some screw-on Coax/RCA adaptors. IE, turn the RG6 into a RCA
cable, connect one ende to the vid out of the CAV6.6, the other end to the
Vid IN of the TV. You'd then connect normal modulated cable signal to the
coax in of the TV. Your AV input would be the CAV, your cable input would be
cable tv.