Prewire Question

[ctribble]

I was talking to a local home theater store and he recommended running RG6 Quad 3 GHZ cable for my plasma display. Does anybody know what cable to run? I assume that RG6 Quad 3 GHZ is not cheap! In my family room I am putting a plasma but everywhere else is just CRT T.V.'s so I don't need to run expensive cable! Can I just run my feed from outside to distribution box in RG6 Quad 3Ghz and from distribution box to cable box where my plasma is going to be? Then run regular RG6 everywhere else.
Thanks
C.T.

 

[JohnA]

The thing that you need to think of is the future....Will you/could you have a plasma or LCD somewhere else in the house? I'm using RG6 Quad in my home to limit the EMI/RF interference. This is what I used:

http://www.jscwire.com/jsc_ss.taf?p=3602

It can be found for about 71.50 for 500 feet...so $.14 per foot.

Hope that helps some.

 

[BMXTRIX]

C.T. - RG6 is just standard coaxial cable.

Here is a mile of it for about 200 bucks:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=67879&item=5764421887&rd=1

RG6 can be used to carry component video, s-video, composite video, audio signals, digital audio, and computer signals to any television you want. It is VERY inexpensive, and very good cable. It is rated by the cable company for HDTV, so you it will pull full bandwidth HDTV programming across it to any TV in your home.

No concerns on your part - wire your home with RG-6. The quad shield may add a little to the cost. But, this is stuff you can get at your local Home Depot today for a very reasonable price and online for even less. The labor of doing the wiring will cost significantly more than the cable itself.