We just had a new home built. And we did our final walk though on Saturday.
Now I have to get to work.
Our TV 55" Samsung will go over the mantel. There is already an empty conduit run from behind the TV up over the ceiling and down an adjoining wall. The idea is to have the DVR, DVD, XBox, Apple TV, etc all on a stand on a side wall and the TV above the fireplace.
I ran a wire trace today and learned that the end to end length of the conduit is 26' (stupid length, why not standard 25).
Anyway, my TV has 3 HDMI ports and various others. but my DVR, DVD, Xbox and Apple TV box are all HDMI.
Now, how so I connect all this. I know I can technically pull 3-4 26' HDMI cable through this conduit, but I would need to special order them since I can find 25 and 33 and others.. but not 26.. go figure.
Also, the gang box for the wall plate is a single gang. So, short of getting cables a couple feel longer each end so I can hang the cords to the TV and the devices. whats the best way to have a nice and neat wall plate with minimum 3 HDMI ports on both end where I can just use short HDMI patch cables from wall to devices and wall to TV.
I have seen HDMI over cat 6, but it needs 2 cat6 lines pulled PER HDMI. And I can only find a wall plate for this that has only ONE HDMI port.
So, whats the best way to make this neat, and be able to hook up everything. I only have 3 HDMI ports on TV but 4 HDMI devices (I just unplug xbox and move cable to Apple TV when I need to and back).
Also, is the Optical Audio worth it? my current house I set up surround sound through my BlueRay DVD device. but new house, I will keep the DVD player, but not the speakers, my plan is to use a sound bar on the mantle with the TV.
Anyway, I have yet a lot to learn. Please any advice, or anything you suggest I read, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Gerry
