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Connections for flatscreen on wall

  • 04-04-2012 1:26am
    #1
    mayto
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    A mate getting a house built will be putting a flatscreen on a straight wall in one of the rooms. There will be power and a twin tv socket behind where the tv is mounted. He wants to be able to watch dvd's etc with the tv. A dvd player could be hooked up to the tv system with a composite to coaxial converter, so could tune frequency on the tv to get the dvd signal. How could you have the tv ready for hdmi devices other than running hdmi cable from behind the tv to another room ? Is it possible to do it cheaply with hdmi extenders? Just have a lan port behind the tv and another where the hdmi/laptop digital devices are?


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  • #2
    cnocbui
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    Sounds like a perfect recipe for a lifetime of poor video quality.

    If he's building the house, he should put trunking in the wall terminating in an AV panel and should at the very least include a built in HDMI cable and socket to the panel.


  • #3
    mayto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭mayto


    I was looking at these hdmi over cat5 extenders http://cpcireland.farnell.com/jsp/level5/module.jsp?moduleId=cpc/621187.xml . He could have a twin rj45 plate behind the tv and the two cat5/cat6? terminating with a twin rj45 wall plate to room with hdmi devices. At least you could then hook up hdmi devices to the tv and change the hdmi cat5 extender if its not good. I saw some faceplates on farnell with cat5 connection at back and hdmi output on front http://cpcireland.farnell.com/jsp/level5/module.jsp?moduleId=cpc/643762.xml . I saw a review of these saying they do not support 1080p deep colour http://www.avforums.com/forums/hdmi-cables-switches/1437425-active-hdmi-cat-5-faceplates-any-good.html#post14389919


  • #4
    zg3409
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    Cat 5 can be used for HDMI. See here:
    http://www.techtir.ie/howto/hdmi-via-cat5-cable

    You need to use fully SCREENED cat5E
    Watty is on these forums runs the above site.

    However as others have said, if building a house, run long HDMI cable from TV to another point in the room where Sky/UPC/DVD will be hidden.

    You can buy long HDMI leads, but try to keep the run as short as possible.

    Ideally for a new TV install you probably need 2 x HDMI or more. 1 x coax for Analogue TV etc. Ethernet for future "smart TV" to connect to internet.

    I would also recommend a VGA lead for connecting to a laptop and an audio lead for also sending the audio. (most new laptops do not have a HDMI port)

    You also need to consider wiring for surround sound, as the sound out of any flat screen TV will not be good.

    You could wire the speakers to the TV (depending on model) or to an amplifier connected elsewhere.


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