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Hi there
I have a BV7 and share analogue tv to my bedroom beovision 3.
I am working on putting down my kitchen floor and will run some cables below.
I am stuck between a rock and a hard place, if i upgrade my BV7 one day i loose the ability to have analoge dist round my house and i know this can be overcome by spending a fortune on HDMI switchers and sending a HD signal around the house with various other devices.
my current plan would be to buy a BV6 for the kitchen TV and access SD signal from the main TV but this may change one day as i might put in control 4 or a newer TV.
what cables should i put in place just in case
I will currently put in:
CAT7 for a Masterlink
CAT5E for network just in case.
What else should i run in to try and future proof the point where the tv will go.
Eclipse 65V1-32Beosound M5Essence MK2BLI
What are the signals you want to distribute now and into the future ? Will your wants and needs change ?
I am finding that ours are.
Free to air TV has declined some much that we now only watch two channels and never bother with the advert supported channels.
Even for the two we do watch we often revert tp catching up on sessions with AIrplay from apps (each channel has its own).
Even our cable supplier's value is waning now that we are using the Apple TV for the series or movies we like.
So what I am prompting you to question is whether you are seeing a change in your viewing habits, and whether than change will be satisfied by a wireless distribution system such as Airplay.
And a "final" thought, if you are not bothered by lag, you could think about the experiment I had of using EyeTV live capture to relay the main room signal wirelessly to an EyeTV app ....
BeoNut since '75
Great reply, thank you it prompted me to think about what I really want to achieve.
Right now I want SD dist around my house and don't care about HD nor can I afford to replace all of the TV's and buy a HD matrix etc.
In the future I may want a HD signal but it's not important for the kitchen and bed rooms as they are only used now and then.
With this in mind all I really can buy is a newer BV7 so I don't loose the BS3, I currently have a MK4 and bearing in mind i want to keep a BS3 I can replace my panel and get a MK6. A MK6 would give me 3d, 3d output to my Beemer & 200Hz and some other stuff I suppose.
I know I would need an adapter as my Beemer cable is DVI and the mk6 uses hdmi.
The beovision 7 3d glasses communicate with the tv, if I used a Beemer would the glasses still work or do I need different ones?