Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 5Mar 23, 2014 1:32 pm paulw11 The other option is to feed your signal into a DTV-modulator and make it a channel over your antenna cabling. Hi Paul, This seems like an option that has grabbed my attention... sounds like something I am interested in. Are these DTV modulators reasonably inexpensive and rather easy to install? Behind my PC I also will have a antenna socket so if it simply requires that then I am half way there I believe... Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 6Mar 23, 2014 1:41 pm It is a lot cheaper than it used to be. If you are happy with standard definition and composite or s-video input then they are less than $500. If you want HDMI input and HD output then between $900 and $1500 - This is the cheapest HD modulator I have seen so far - Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 7Mar 23, 2014 2:10 pm oh wow, i wasn't expecting a price that high.. the wife will kill me if I spend that much on this leisure item haha! Even the standard def is a little pricey for me. I will have to put this idea on the back-burner if it is more than say $200 (I already have all cables, its just devices/adapters now). I am on another forum and they have insisted that there is a 1 in 3 out HDMI splitter that can run all 3 at once... but nobody has produced a link... I need to persue this avenue for the tv broadcasting I think. I will have to ask around a bit I think.. Cheers Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 8Mar 23, 2014 2:13 pm I think this is what I can install in my roof space... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1147174696 I will look into it. Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 9Mar 23, 2014 2:34 pm Yes, but don't put it in your roof space. Depending on where you live, summer temperatures can rise to 50 degrees or more, which will definitely have an impact on its operating life. Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 10Mar 23, 2014 2:42 pm Yeah I agree with the roof. I was just thinking a central location. Just scaling off my plans, it looks like if I put the adapter in my server cabinet (in garage) the longest cable will need to be 15m long, which after reading around seems to be the limit before noise gets into the mix. Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 11Mar 24, 2014 7:33 pm Bitek have some nice hdmi splitters which will do ir over hdmi as well. In terms of audio you can purchase some cheap 25-50w 2 channel amps that will be enough to drive some in- ceiling speakers. Connect the audio out from the TV to the input. Connect the power cable to a cheap power board which have master and slave outputs, so when the TV turns off it will cut the power to the 2ch amp. Re: Need suggestions/help wiring AV in new house 12Apr 14, 2014 8:28 pm The guys at The Cable Connection have these in stock and they are local .... makes it easier to try out the scneario and return it if it doesnt work out! [url] http://www.thecableconnection.com.au/TC ... 58E16.html[/url] Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hi, Looking to add an ensuite to one of the bedrooms and make it a Master BR. Please see the attached current floorplan. Need suggestions on what's the best way to do… 0 7341 hi guys. Please be nice. First time home builder in Qld. I would like some feedback please on whether I should build my granny flat first before my main house at the… 0 4596 Suggestions please for acrylic rendering Color to match austral brick urban one pepper. Pic for reference. Thanks 0 5071 |