Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: Best setup or idea for my soon to be built house ? 3Feb 16, 2009 7:32 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Best setup or idea for my soon to be built house ? 5Feb 17, 2009 6:24 am Licenced Sparky and Data Cabler If "The Data Guys" is too long to type, TDG will do. Re: Best setup or idea for my soon to be built house ? 7Feb 17, 2009 6:53 am Licenced Sparky and Data Cabler If "The Data Guys" is too long to type, TDG will do. Re: Best setup or idea for my soon to be built house ? 10Feb 17, 2009 2:59 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Best setup or idea for my soon to be built house ? 12Feb 17, 2009 7:09 pm The Foxtel signal (HD or otherwise) is delivered to the Foxtel box via Coax/RG6, just like FTA (which includes HD digital FTA). It is then decoded by the Foxtel box and if your box (this goes for Foxtel as well as FTA Set-Top-Boxes) is a HD one and you want to view HD then it must be sent to your display device (TV, projector) via cables that can carry a HD signal.
Coax/RG6 carries RF (Radio Frequency) signals, and actually needs to be decoded by some sort of tuner (analogue or digital) at the endpoint (TV). Composite Video and S-Video cables cannot carry HD video signals. Component Video, DVI and HDMI can carry HD video signals (HDMI can also carry audio, all the way up to the new HD audio formats). HDMI is only guaranteed (by the actual 'big name' cable brands) to carry 1080P Full HD signals up to 7m (initial spec for HDMI was for a max length of 5m), however you can get 15m and some 20m HDMI cables, and I can tell you that I know it at least works OK over a 15m cable. You can also get HDMI repeater kits that transmit Full HD 1080P up to more than 35m via 2 runs of Cat6, successfully proven beyond even that sort of distance. P.S. You're welcome for all of the info I've provided too, especially since I seem to be the only one that actually mentioned you can't distribute HD over RG6... https://form.jotform.com/240284569218058 Please spare a moment to fill out this survey form for a project. You stand a chance to win a digital gift voucher. Legitimate… 0 2835 You must be new to the internet. You're also the only person anyone here has ever heard of washing their garage wall. I hate to break it to you, there are insects and… 6 4863 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair We purchased a 1960s property that is on timber stumps mostly, and a newer section is on concrete stumps. We had a building inspection initially and they reported some… 0 12749 |