First, I am building a man cave in my shop. I am almost finished with the framing and about to begin wiring. I have had this loose plan in mind for how the A/V would all work but wanted to make sure before going too much further.
When I dug the electrical for the shop, I went ahead and laid 2 Cat6 and 2 RG6 drops in conduit from the house. We have DirectTV satellite service with one DVR and two mini receivers for a total of 3 satellite sources. I am also planning on adding an OTA antenna to the mix.
I plan to wire 4 spots for TVs with power, cat6, RG6, and HDMI back to a central box in a wall. None of those HDMI runs are particularly spectacular and are relatively short(20ft max). Initially I will probably only have 3 TVs but that gives me some options for placement. I am taking the mini receiver and TV from the master bedroom for one source, no problem there. I would like to extend the other two using and HDMI -> TCP/IP. There are a few options on Amazon for these extenders but I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with them or has any recommendations as to how good they are.
Gofanco
MiraBox
J-Tech
TreaLin
Since all these HDMI connections would be in a central location I was considering one of these HDMI 4x4 switch matrixes. The thought being I could use the 4th output to run to an AV receiver to switch the main audio and connect a streaming device to the 4 input. Plus be able to swap sources between TVs easily. Anyone have any experience with something like this?
TESmart 4x4 Matrix
Gofanco 4x4 Matrix
Now about splitters. Most of those HDMI extenders don't have a built in splitter and reviews on splitters seem pretty mixed. I have another HDMI drop I need to run to our back porch, which will be off of the DVR in the family room as well. That one will require a splitter so I was wondering what recommendations anyone may have for one of those things.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
When I dug the electrical for the shop, I went ahead and laid 2 Cat6 and 2 RG6 drops in conduit from the house. We have DirectTV satellite service with one DVR and two mini receivers for a total of 3 satellite sources. I am also planning on adding an OTA antenna to the mix.
I plan to wire 4 spots for TVs with power, cat6, RG6, and HDMI back to a central box in a wall. None of those HDMI runs are particularly spectacular and are relatively short(20ft max). Initially I will probably only have 3 TVs but that gives me some options for placement. I am taking the mini receiver and TV from the master bedroom for one source, no problem there. I would like to extend the other two using and HDMI -> TCP/IP. There are a few options on Amazon for these extenders but I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with them or has any recommendations as to how good they are.
Gofanco
MiraBox
J-Tech
TreaLin
Since all these HDMI connections would be in a central location I was considering one of these HDMI 4x4 switch matrixes. The thought being I could use the 4th output to run to an AV receiver to switch the main audio and connect a streaming device to the 4 input. Plus be able to swap sources between TVs easily. Anyone have any experience with something like this?
TESmart 4x4 Matrix
Gofanco 4x4 Matrix
Now about splitters. Most of those HDMI extenders don't have a built in splitter and reviews on splitters seem pretty mixed. I have another HDMI drop I need to run to our back porch, which will be off of the DVR in the family room as well. That one will require a splitter so I was wondering what recommendations anyone may have for one of those things.
Thanks in advance for your advice.