Hi All,
I’m hoping someone here will be able to give me some advice on my home Tv and Telephone system setup. We’ve basically been getting our house completely redone and have taken the opportunity to add at least 2xCAT5e and 2xTV cables to each and every room with all the cables terminating in the attic.
Now that we are getting close to the end of the build I would like to find out what is and is not possible (I should probably have done this before we started!!!). We would like to have cable TV in all the rooms, we are currently with VirginMedia ex Telewest. My initial idea was to have the main cable come in to the attic and from there split it to the different rooms. This would mean having a decoder box in each and every room we want to have cable Tv in, which could be a bit on the expensive side. Is there a better way of doing this? I was hoping to add some PVR functionality too. I was wondering if I could set up a PC to handle the incoming TV signal and then use that to distribute it to the rest of the house, but wasn’t sure if that meant everyone would have to watch the same channel.
As for the Telephone system, I would like to know if I can use the new CAT5e cables to add a phone to every room (it wouldn’t be every room most likely 3 rooms + 1 fax machine).
I think these are all my questions for now, any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks
Davinder
I’m hoping someone here will be able to give me some advice on my home Tv and Telephone system setup. We’ve basically been getting our house completely redone and have taken the opportunity to add at least 2xCAT5e and 2xTV cables to each and every room with all the cables terminating in the attic.
Now that we are getting close to the end of the build I would like to find out what is and is not possible (I should probably have done this before we started!!!). We would like to have cable TV in all the rooms, we are currently with VirginMedia ex Telewest. My initial idea was to have the main cable come in to the attic and from there split it to the different rooms. This would mean having a decoder box in each and every room we want to have cable Tv in, which could be a bit on the expensive side. Is there a better way of doing this? I was hoping to add some PVR functionality too. I was wondering if I could set up a PC to handle the incoming TV signal and then use that to distribute it to the rest of the house, but wasn’t sure if that meant everyone would have to watch the same channel.
As for the Telephone system, I would like to know if I can use the new CAT5e cables to add a phone to every room (it wouldn’t be every room most likely 3 rooms + 1 fax machine).
I think these are all my questions for now, any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks
Davinder
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