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In response to "Wait, I would be a consumer install wouldn't I? Do you have knowledge of any of this stuff?" by pmb

If your house is wired for audio and video, you're probably looking at professional level switching equipment.

Posted by Mop (196 lbs) (aka rburriel) Sep 2 '11, 15:45

3 years into my job, these people still throw out terms at me I don't understand. "Do you want SDI or NTSC?" "Uh..."

I've got a pretty nice consumer hook-up in my home, but it's all on a couple of shelves off to the side of my TV, with cables dangling everywhere, hooked into a receiver. I don't do multi-room, and if you're looking at multi-room (especially for video), you're gonna pay for it.

Otherwise, get yourself a $900 receiver, run HDMI to everything in sight, plug in the speakers, and you're golden.

Mop

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Interestingly, everything I'm reading suggests that for multi-room tv switching, hdmi is not really reliable and you really should use component - pmb Sep 2, 15:49 5
- You're screwed with component if any of your signals are HDCP encrypted (which they will be). -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 2, 15:57 2
  - And HDCP is? (and you see how shallow my knowledge base on this is). -- nm - pmb Sep 2, 16:03 1
    - HDCP is encryption that is carried by digital signals over HDMI. - Mop (196 lbs) Sep 2, 16:18
- The newer hdmi is better. The prior standard doesn't have as much bandwidth. - David Sep 2, 15:53 1
  - We ran into this in the museum meeting room. Ideally we'd have had the input panel at the back of the room and the projector mid-way between there and - MojaveMeg Sep 2, 15:57

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