Distribution of HDTV (Sky-HD) around the house, CAT-5?

[V8burble]

Anyone any experience of this? I know that via RF2 and TV-links are a no no, as this will only result in SD being distributed. And I know that HDMI over more than about 10-15m is also out, so was thinking about something CAT-5.... like this possibly http://www.smart-e.co.uk/documents/datasheets/SNX-8x8.pdf

Any experts out there :bonk:

 

[Tumbleweed.]

No idea what you're talking about but it would be rude not to say

Wishing you happier, more easily explained experiences.

 

[who?]

personally I would just get another hd receiver and run another coax from the lnb.


but I dont pay sky anything.


Are you wanting to watch differnet channels on differnt tvs or just to route a single channel to multiple tvs?

 

[Flash In The Pan]

Does the Sky HD still use the regular dish/lnb setup? If it does you could replace the lnb with, say, a 4 gang one. The only problem is you'd need an hd box in each room.......

 

[markp]

I've never actually used VGA over Cat5 adaptors, but there seems to be plenty of them on the market so they must work fairly well by now! No idea how you'd switch/split signals if you wanted to run a couple of TV's from one source.
You could run 3 coax leads and do it over RGB I guess, but it's 3 cables for every one signal so won't be a cheap way to do it.
HDMI boosters are available if you want to run things a bit further without changing the connection method.

 

[mrgubby]

That box appears to be an analogue repeater / switch. If you want to pump UXGA / Audio HD content around the house that should do it nicely.

But with having to buy a receiver & transmitter combo it will be rather expensive, probably cheaper to buy a Sky mutli system

 

[V8burble]

Mmmm, it's one of those situations where I'm loathed to give Sky any more cash LOL, but I think I'm back to the situation where it appears the cheaper, and easier option to simply up the HD box count. Oh well.... there's always Freesat....