exiled red
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I have recently bought a house and as it needs some renovations I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to setup a TV distribution system. I have done some reading around (on here an other places) and have an idea of what I want to do, I am just looking for advice on how to do it. I have almost none of the hardware as I currently live in a small flat and basically all the hardware I will be taking are a Sky box (no dish), TV blu-ray player, so will need to buy the cabling and infrastructure type stuff, which means I can be flexible I don't have a huge budget but figured that as long as I can get the cabling etc that I need installed I can add to it.
Initially I want to have they Sky box in the living room and distribute the signal from the sky channel being watched to other TV points around the house along with the freeview signal, I would like the option to put other signals on to all the TVs such as CCTV cameras, I would like to also have the ability to put more sky boxes in other rooms at a later date, also the ability to upgrade to Sky Q or similar at a later date. I have assumed that the best way to do this would be using a distribution system oer co-ax cable (but am open to other suggestions) my thoughts were to send 3 co-ax cables (2 feeds from the dish and a return) to the main TV and 2 to the other TVs as well as going this I am going to run multiple Cat5e/6 cables to each TV point so have the option to also send HD signals over ethernet and supply smart TVs etc with wired internet connections.
Does this seem a sensible approach, What is the best thing to do regarding sky dish LNB? Is a quattro the best option? What about co-ax distribution system/switch and combiners is it best to keep the RF options such as a loftbox type distribution or should I look at HDMI modulation or something else I was assuming that this would be a more expensive option. I thought that there was no need to run HDMI cables as I would use HDMI over ethernet or Cat5e/6 if I need to send a signal elsewhere are there any problems doing this?
Thanks in advance
Initially I want to have they Sky box in the living room and distribute the signal from the sky channel being watched to other TV points around the house along with the freeview signal, I would like the option to put other signals on to all the TVs such as CCTV cameras, I would like to also have the ability to put more sky boxes in other rooms at a later date, also the ability to upgrade to Sky Q or similar at a later date. I have assumed that the best way to do this would be using a distribution system oer co-ax cable (but am open to other suggestions) my thoughts were to send 3 co-ax cables (2 feeds from the dish and a return) to the main TV and 2 to the other TVs as well as going this I am going to run multiple Cat5e/6 cables to each TV point so have the option to also send HD signals over ethernet and supply smart TVs etc with wired internet connections.
Does this seem a sensible approach, What is the best thing to do regarding sky dish LNB? Is a quattro the best option? What about co-ax distribution system/switch and combiners is it best to keep the RF options such as a loftbox type distribution or should I look at HDMI modulation or something else I was assuming that this would be a more expensive option. I thought that there was no need to run HDMI cables as I would use HDMI over ethernet or Cat5e/6 if I need to send a signal elsewhere are there any problems doing this?
Thanks in advance
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