Hi All,
First of all apologies to what may seem a commonly asked question, however I'm getting confused on what I require and potentially over complicating matters.
Am due to move shortly and as the house will be the "forever home" I'm looking to do things properly, but on the flipside everything I do will need to be cost efficient.
Currently reside in a 2 bed house, TV in lounge has a SKY HD box and a PS4 connected, master bed has another TV and another SKY HD box. We don't require 2 boxes going forward as we're either in the same room watching the same program or shes in the bedroom watching TV whilst I'm on the PS4.
The new house is a little bigger and is having multiple Cat6 runs to each room with a patch panel and Cisco 3750 at the core. I would ideally like to centrally locate all my AV sources with the switch and patch panel and distribute to 4 TV's (lounge, kitchen, playroom and master bedroom), I don't see the point of having multiple SKY boxes when they aren't actually used, we just need to be able to watch SKY from each room. Is a matrix like the HDanywhere 4x4 mhub the way to go or are there options on a budget? Inputs would probably be 1 SKY box, a PS4 (see concerns below about that!) and a media hub.
Can the PS4 be centrally located, read a number of articles about poor bluetooth range which may be problematic so I may need to place this directly into the lounge.
The new lounge will also have a SONOS playbar and sub, are there any things I should worry about using audio/video distribution?
If I could get pointers on the the above questions and guidance on best solution for my needs that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
First of all apologies to what may seem a commonly asked question, however I'm getting confused on what I require and potentially over complicating matters.
Am due to move shortly and as the house will be the "forever home" I'm looking to do things properly, but on the flipside everything I do will need to be cost efficient.
Currently reside in a 2 bed house, TV in lounge has a SKY HD box and a PS4 connected, master bed has another TV and another SKY HD box. We don't require 2 boxes going forward as we're either in the same room watching the same program or shes in the bedroom watching TV whilst I'm on the PS4.
The new house is a little bigger and is having multiple Cat6 runs to each room with a patch panel and Cisco 3750 at the core. I would ideally like to centrally locate all my AV sources with the switch and patch panel and distribute to 4 TV's (lounge, kitchen, playroom and master bedroom), I don't see the point of having multiple SKY boxes when they aren't actually used, we just need to be able to watch SKY from each room. Is a matrix like the HDanywhere 4x4 mhub the way to go or are there options on a budget? Inputs would probably be 1 SKY box, a PS4 (see concerns below about that!) and a media hub.
Can the PS4 be centrally located, read a number of articles about poor bluetooth range which may be problematic so I may need to place this directly into the lounge.
The new lounge will also have a SONOS playbar and sub, are there any things I should worry about using audio/video distribution?
If I could get pointers on the the above questions and guidance on best solution for my needs that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan