[chbot] OT....what should it cost?

[Carl Ranson]

Hey all, some interesting points raised by various people which i'll 
address here.

First, Let me clarify what I'm trying to achieve.

I currently have a mysky box in the living room and tv's in two of the 
bedrooms.
I'm using video senders to share that with the bedroom and get the IR 
signal back.
It works after a fashion but suffers due to interference from various 
devices (wifi, cordless mouse, microwave etc).
Problems range from annoying pops and clicks to full video dropout, plus 
the IR back is unreliable.

So my main goal is to have mysky available in every room optimised for 
the following
     Picture quality
     IR controller reliability
     cost
     future proof-ness.

The mysky box is down one end of the house, but there is a central 
closet that would be a better place for it.
The mysky box is the non-HD one and doesn't have an HDMI output. Only 2 
of the 3 tv's have hdmi inputs.

I saw this at jaycar and it seemed just the thing.  
http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=AC1648

So, assuming the sky box is moved to the central point, the cable back 
to the living room is 20m (that's up the wall, over the roof space and 
down again)
The bedrooms are back to back and can be reached from underneath (most 
of the house is on piles) The run is 10m under the floor an up into the 
closet.

Ok, so its 5x coax per run, but its only 200m. Jaycar has that $1.5/m  
http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=WB2009

so back to question time.....
Is that setup likely to work in terms of picture quality?

I think the materials for that setup shouldn't be more than $400. The 
quote I've had is $2200

I'm open to alternatives provided they will give the necessary reliability.
I'm suspicious of boxes that claim to do it all over a cat5e (eg. 
http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=QC3684 ).
I don't reckon they'll give acceptable quality but let me know if anyone 
has had good experiences with those.

Thanks all for your time.
C

On 25/01/2011 10:27 p.m., Mark Atherton wrote:
> for component video (RGBHV) you may need up to 5 runs of coax.
>
> Then it needs pulling and terminating each end.
>
> is the 20m the overall run  (up, across down + tails) or point to
> point distance ?
>
> Also a 100m reel of 75 ohm coax is going to be much cheaper than by-the-metre
>
> What wall plates to you want (SCART, BNC, RCA) ?
>
> You can also get single sheathed component coax which is quite
> expensive which may be what is being quoted.
>
> what about future updates - HDMI etc, is analog short sighted ?
>
> What about the audio channels 2, 6, 8,
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
> At 06:11 PM 1/25/2011, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I'm trying to get a quote for wiring my house for multi room AV.
>> I get a distinct feeling that what I'm getting is a "go away" price.
>>
>> The longest run is about 20m and I want to do component video over that
>> distance.
>>
>> What should a suitable coax cable cost per meter?
>>
>> If anyone is experienced in this area I'd really like a chance to chat
>> off the board about it.
>> Thanks
>> Carl.
>
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