[Cialug] OT: In home video distribution

[Nathan C. Smith]

That is true.  Gefen is a company that makes some great ones.  The Gefen ones, at least the ones I am familiar with are point-to-point and do not actually use Ethernet or IP.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of James Shoemaker
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:39 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: In home video distribution
> 
> 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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