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Please Help designing a system!! ASAP!!

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Old 16-11-2009, 2:18 PM   #1
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Please Help designing a system!! ASAP!!

Hi there,
I have been asked to put together a system for our local comprising of 1 60" TV and two 42" tvs.
I need it to be able to show the same sky channel on all three, or just two while the other one shows something different, or all three show something different!

Also, the audio would need to be piped to speakers above each tv....

I hope this is clear :-)

If anyone has any ideas of which switches or whatever I need please let me know.Also, if you know anywhere where I can get a cheap 60" tv (maybe an ex-display screen -thetype you see in airports) it would be helpful.

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Old 16-11-2009, 2:46 PM   #2
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Re: Please Help designing a system!! ASAP!!

Not really enough information to answer properly yet.

What are the "different" sources? When you say show something different so you mean a different channel on Sky or a terrestrial channel or a DVD or something similar.

Is the Sky box a HD box?

There are several ways to achieve the sky part. simplest would be via RF, although this wont look great on large TVs it might be good enough.

If you have SkyHD and other sources that all have a HDMI output then another way might be a matrix switch, in this case a 4-4 switch. You have 4 inputs and 4 outputs and each output can be independently switched to watch any of the inputs.

Speaker wise. Do you intend to have independant speakers for each TV or a central sound system?
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Old 16-11-2009, 6:33 PM   #3
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Re: Please Help designing a system!! ASAP!!

Hi Jamie,
Thanks for the reply.
Different sources would be sky (not HD) freeview, pc and dvd.

Speaker wise. We intend to have independant speakers installed beside for each tv.

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