I now have plans for most aspects of my upcoming install including heating, lighting, security, communications etc but I've left the most complex two pieces of the puzzle til last. I'm talking about whole house audio and video which I realise warrants as much planning as the rest put together.
At the moment I'm running a media centre server in my home office which is connected to an xbox 360 with A/V receiver in the living room and also an xbox 360 in one of my housemates bedrooms. There is a dual freeview tuner in the server which works well for the most part with very few viewing conflicts appearing (only been tempted to add another tuner card once).
What are other peoples thoughts on windows media centre? my only grumble is the fan noise on the xbox 360 is awful and not ideal for movie watching in the living room.
At the moment I'm thinking of putting a different media centre extender in the living room but this is not really feasible for the rest of the house (kitchen for instance) also I would like audio/video in the bathroom at a later date and audio in several other locations in the house.
Also the media centre approach does not allow for synchronised playback in different zones.
Where do I start?
At the moment I'm running a media centre server in my home office which is connected to an xbox 360 with A/V receiver in the living room and also an xbox 360 in one of my housemates bedrooms. There is a dual freeview tuner in the server which works well for the most part with very few viewing conflicts appearing (only been tempted to add another tuner card once).
What are other peoples thoughts on windows media centre? my only grumble is the fan noise on the xbox 360 is awful and not ideal for movie watching in the living room.
At the moment I'm thinking of putting a different media centre extender in the living room but this is not really feasible for the rest of the house (kitchen for instance) also I would like audio/video in the bathroom at a later date and audio in several other locations in the house.
Also the media centre approach does not allow for synchronised playback in different zones.
Where do I start?
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