- Aug 12, 2001
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Hi, I'm a complete amateur at this so have some questions about running wires in walls and relocating sources to another room.
For years we have had a 67" Samsung LED DLP on a console that contained a full tower HTPC, a Blu-Ray player, a DISH satellite box and two large UPSs, one for the satellite box and the other for the rest.
We just bought a Vizio 80" LCD and mounted it on the wall with a recessed mount (from Monoprice). So it is flush against the wall other than the thickness of the power cord and HDMI cables running to the console.
Now I want to remove the console and put everything on it in a nearby office. The cable runs will be close to 40'. The only cabling options I'm aware of are either redmere HDMI cables or HDMI over Cat6 and am trying to decide which is best. The HDMI over cat6 solutions I'm looking at have a wall outlet at each end with 2 Cat6 sockets inside the wall and an HDMI and IR extender socket on the outside. Since it takes two cat6 per device, I would need to run six Cat6 (or 7) cables for 3 HDMI outlets. It would be "nice" to have HDMI and IR outlets but those would have to be recessed into the wall just like the TV mount to keep the plugs from keeping the TV from going all the way back to the wall. I don't want them to the side of the TV because I don't want any visible wires. My concerns are will having so many Cat6/7 cables run (in addition to AC) make it a nightmare to run them in the walls and also the additional connections between source and TV because of the patch cables between the outlets and devices.
With the redmere HDMI cables, I would need to string fewer but would need another solution for the IR. I can't find any wired IR extenders that are rated for the distance other than some very expensive powered stuff. On the plus sides, in addition to fewer cables to run there would be less connections since the cables would run directly between the devices. BUT in the room with the HTPC, Satellite, etc it would be considerably messier with cables coming straight out of the wall. At the TV end that doesn't matter because the three HDMI cables will come out f the recessed mount and thru its built in cable management system.
There are IR extenders that can piggy back on the HDMIs but that would seem to result in the same number of connections as with wall sockets since the piggyback devices are basically a very short extension to the ends of the HDMI cables with a place to plug an audio type cable in for the IR.
The places that sell these things can't provide information that would tell me how stiff they are which would certainly affect which are easier to run.
If it matters, I have the wall behind the TV open. Its a bathroom that's being remodeling. The rest of the runs will be straight shots beside other existing wires.
What do you think of these options or other options I'm not aware of.
Cost is always important but not a major factor unless an option is 2 or more times as expensive as the alternative.
TIA
For years we have had a 67" Samsung LED DLP on a console that contained a full tower HTPC, a Blu-Ray player, a DISH satellite box and two large UPSs, one for the satellite box and the other for the rest.
We just bought a Vizio 80" LCD and mounted it on the wall with a recessed mount (from Monoprice). So it is flush against the wall other than the thickness of the power cord and HDMI cables running to the console.
Now I want to remove the console and put everything on it in a nearby office. The cable runs will be close to 40'. The only cabling options I'm aware of are either redmere HDMI cables or HDMI over Cat6 and am trying to decide which is best. The HDMI over cat6 solutions I'm looking at have a wall outlet at each end with 2 Cat6 sockets inside the wall and an HDMI and IR extender socket on the outside. Since it takes two cat6 per device, I would need to run six Cat6 (or 7) cables for 3 HDMI outlets. It would be "nice" to have HDMI and IR outlets but those would have to be recessed into the wall just like the TV mount to keep the plugs from keeping the TV from going all the way back to the wall. I don't want them to the side of the TV because I don't want any visible wires. My concerns are will having so many Cat6/7 cables run (in addition to AC) make it a nightmare to run them in the walls and also the additional connections between source and TV because of the patch cables between the outlets and devices.
With the redmere HDMI cables, I would need to string fewer but would need another solution for the IR. I can't find any wired IR extenders that are rated for the distance other than some very expensive powered stuff. On the plus sides, in addition to fewer cables to run there would be less connections since the cables would run directly between the devices. BUT in the room with the HTPC, Satellite, etc it would be considerably messier with cables coming straight out of the wall. At the TV end that doesn't matter because the three HDMI cables will come out f the recessed mount and thru its built in cable management system.
There are IR extenders that can piggy back on the HDMIs but that would seem to result in the same number of connections as with wall sockets since the piggyback devices are basically a very short extension to the ends of the HDMI cables with a place to plug an audio type cable in for the IR.
The places that sell these things can't provide information that would tell me how stiff they are which would certainly affect which are easier to run.
If it matters, I have the wall behind the TV open. Its a bathroom that's being remodeling. The rest of the runs will be straight shots beside other existing wires.
What do you think of these options or other options I'm not aware of.
Cost is always important but not a major factor unless an option is 2 or more times as expensive as the alternative.
TIA