TV & Ethernet traffic on one cable?

mayoman1973

I read that to stream HD movie over your home network that you would need dual cat6 cables, one for audio and one for video?
Is it not the case that the signal from my ariel carried on a coax cable contains several Muxs which each contain multiple HD channels. So why can we not do the same thing with cat 6?
In short is there any way to have just a single cable run that will carry network traffic and also a TV signal?

whizbang

I think the audio and video may be referring to a way to extend the length of a HDMI lead ??

If you are streaming over network, 1 cable, or even wireless is good enough.

If you are trying to distribute a digital TV mux around the house, there are adapters available, but quality is very suspect. Coax is the only way.

maki

Are you asking whether you can receive both network data and a tv signal directly into the network port on your computer?
If so, the short answer is no.

You could transmit a tv signal over ethernet with some sort of hdmi to ethernet adapter, but once it gets to your computer the network controller is going to dump everything it receives because it only knows how to handle properly formatted TCP/IP data, and not the garbled mess of bits it's just received.

whizbang

Your final option is to install a TV receiver that can stream over network, with remote control, but you all have to watch the one channel together!

Khannie

http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_1_4/hec.aspx