[Cialug] OT: In home video distribution

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Tue Dec 1 11:39:01 CST 2009


Tim Perdue wrote:
> I wondered if any of the other geeks have found a good solution to 
> in-home HD Video Distribution.
> 
> I have a HD DVR in the basement and would like to pipe this to my other 
> HDTVs scattered around the house, but only have an ethernet jack 
> available at each TV, not HDMI or Component wiring. I do have a HAVA 
> (slingbox like), but that would require a PC at each HDTV in order to 
> view the output.
> 
> What would be nice is another hava-type box that can receive the stream 
> and put it on the TV. I haven't pulled up anything like this on google yet.
> 
> Having an electrician out to run component jacks everywhere is a 
> possibility, but it would be slicker to do something over ethernet.
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    I think they make adapters to send HDMI over cat 5.  Likely not cheap.

James


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