Connecting six televisions to two satellite feeds, a FiOS TV feed, and a camera feed.

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Hello guys,

I'm in a new construction house and six televisions are to be placed throughout the rooms. At each point where a TV is supposed to go, there are two coaxial feeds. All of the coaxial throughout the house trace back to a central location, where there are currently three splitters setup. Two separate splitters are for the two different satellite services we have, that both require receivers and the other splitter is for our FiOS feed that goes to our FiOS TV receivers. We were thinking about purchasing a fourth splitter for our home camera system feed, but we realized we might need a better solution with the house only being wired for two coaxial sources at each entertainment point.

We're looking for a system that will allow us to input all of these sources into one device, and then broadcast all of them through one coaxial feed to one third party receiver at the point of each TV, that will be used to interact with and control the sources all located in one location. In the future, this solution will need to be able to expand into or be compatible with our house-wide audio hook-ups.

This is how I believe it could work out, but I am open to any streamlined solutions.

Thanks for all of your advice in advance, and let me know if you need any clarification of our setup.

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Hello guys,

I'm in a new construction house and six televisions are to be placed throughout the rooms. At each point where a TV is supposed to go, there are two coaxial feeds. All of the coaxial throughout the house trace back to a central location, where there are currently three splitters setup. Two separate splitters are for the two different satellite services we have, that both require receivers and the other splitter is for our FiOS feed that goes to our FiOS TV receivers. We were thinking about purchasing a fourth splitter for our home camera system feed, but we realized we might need a better solution with the house only being wired for two coaxial sources at each entertainment point.

We're looking for a system that will allow us to input all of these sources into one device, and then broadcast all of them through one coaxial feed to one third party receiver at the point of each TV, that will be used to interact with and control the sources all located in one location. In the future, this solution will need to be able to expand into or be compatible with our house-wide audio hook-ups.

This is how I believe it could work out, but I am open to any streamlined solutions.

Thanks for all of your advice in advance, and let me know if you need any clarification of our setup.

Read more: Connecting six televisions to two satellite feeds, a FiOS TV feed, and a camera feed. - Home Theater Forum and Systems - HomeTheaterShack.com

So, you're saying that the electrician or someone's helper wired the place, right? Is there any way to feed more cables to the TV locations, or is everything closed up? If it's not possible, it's gonna be a PITA to really have all of the media content work flawlessly and easily. Each location should have at least one Cat5e/6 feed. The main feed can be for whatever provider the user wants- if it's RG6, it will be fine for cable tv, satellite, U-Verse or off-air broadcast. Splitters also need to pass DC in most cases, if PPV is wanted. Cheap splitters won't even pass the video well, so be prepared to upgrade some parts. If you want the same programming at all TVs at the same time, you may need some kind of matrix. For security cameras, you'll need to combine the video signal with the satellite, antenna or cable TV feed and you'll probably need some kind of modulator to assign a channel.

 

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So, you're saying that the electrician or someone's helper wired the place, right? Is there any way to feed more cables to the TV locations, or is everything closed up? If it's not possible, it's gonna be a PITA to really have all of the media content work flawlessly and easily. Each location should have at least one Cat5e/6 feed. The main feed can be for whatever provider the user wants- if it's RG6, it will be fine for cable tv, satellite, U-Verse or off-air broadcast. Splitters also need to pass DC in most cases, if PPV is wanted. Cheap splitters won't even pass the video well, so be prepared to upgrade some parts. If you want the same programming at all TVs at the same time, you may need some kind of matrix. For security cameras, you'll need to combine the video signal with the satellite, antenna or cable TV feed and you'll probably need some kind of modulator to assign a channel.

We wired the place ourselves, but would rather not bust through walls again to wire more. We do have Cat5 at each point, as well. Thanks to some of your info, I believe we've found a solution with our current setup.

Thanks!

 

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We wired the place ourselves, but would rather not bust through walls again to wire more. We do have Cat5 at each point, as well. Thanks to some of your info, I believe we've found a solution with our current setup.

Thanks!

Do you have to send the camera feed through the cabling, or will you be using a DVR with network connection? If you will have this and your computer is new enough, it may have the Intel chip that allows you to use Netgear's Push To TV. It wirelessly connects to a laptop with this chip and has an HDMI output that goes to the AVR or TV, so you can view whatever is on the monitor.

http://www.netgear.com/ptv

 

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We wired the place ourselves, but would rather not bust through walls again to wire more. We do have Cat5 at each point, as well. Thanks to some of your info, I believe we've found a solution with our current setup.

Thanks!

It would be interesting what solution you are using. I've never heard of a HD solution which would work at all.