M4SPM,

You're right. You need three HD distributors. However, you usually wouldn't distribute cable/satellite box signals (at least we don't here in the US) as they are relatively cheap and people would likely want to watch different things on different televisions. So unless something is different across the pond, you'd realistically only need to do two. The Key Digital boxes only cost about $700us, which is only a few dollars more than a BeoLink Passive Kit over here.

The real pain, of course, is running 2 runs of CATV for each HDMI or VGA cables that you run! 

Scott,

Q. So, hd signal is broadcast to all tv and the control (ir) signal goes over the masterlink. cool. the b&o tv is connected to hd device by a b&o controller. can the hd device be a stb and work through the stb-c ? 

A. The device can be any peripheral you would ordinarily connect to a PUC, however, as I mentioned in the previous post (and there could be something I don't understand about STBs in Europe), we don't generally distribute cable/satellite because they're cheap and even in a two person household, people may want to watch different programming in different rooms.  

Q. Will this work if, by some miracle, the blu-ray player is integrated in the tv (think bv7) ? do they have a hdmi out option ?

A. Interestingly, no. "If" a Blu-Ray player in integrated into the next BeoVision 7, this solution will not work. Unless they alter their output options (right now it is limited to a single coax), putting the Blu-Ray into the television would preclude it from being distributed. 

Q. Does the b&o tv connected to the hd device have to be 'engaged' first or can it be launched from any tv (like with cd).

A. It can be launched from any Bang & Olufsen TV. It works on the same principle as listening to the soundtrack from a video source in an audio only link room. The television can operate while still asleep, which would happen in this case if, for example, you had an AppleTV connected to a BeoSystem 3 in your living room and you hit V.AUX in your bedroom on your BeoVision 8.  

Q. As an aside, how do you assign "dvd" to av2. is this some sort of trick with the beo4 ? 

A. If you're asking this about a BeoVision 7, you can't. DVD is assigned to the internal drive only. If you're asking this about another BeoSystem 3 based product, I believe you should be able to. I'm not in my shop right now, but I'm fairly certain most of our screens are using AV2 for DVD. I'll re-post if I find something out about this.  

Beeanowefreak,

If you're running the AppleTV (or other HDMI peripheral) into a BeoSystem 3, it will already be downscaled when being output from RF over coax. Essentially this piece, or something like it, is already at work within the BeoVision.

As an aside, you will have to run new coax anyway for either the internal distribution amp or a product like this gefen to work. You cannot have additional "traffic" on the coax runs that usually exist in homes, unless you want to give up television entirely for your AppleTV. 

I realize that this has been touched upon already, but attaching an Apple TV to each TV (and controlling it through the IR blaster) whilst at the same time using your computer and iTunes software in the background as a media server would serve your purpose (though only at 720p for the time being).

M 

True, but depending on how many tvs you want to serve, this may or may not be the lower cost option. After 2-3 tvs, the distribution amp is cheaper. It also doesn't address sources like a Blu-Ray player. 

Hey Trip,

I'm not an expert on this, I only know the B&O kit I use. But this doesn't generate any additional traffic over the Coax, it simply distributes the picture (via a beosystem 3 in my case) across the link frequency on the exisiting coax, and sends the audio over the ML...exactly the same as distributing Sky HD to any other room.

As far as I'm aware no HD signal can be sent over coax without downscaling it first...And I didn' think (and neither does my dealer) that the Beosystem 3 did this by default before sending it out...it simply doesn't send it if it's HD...If it did, then AppleTV distribution would simply 'work' by connecting it to the Beossystem, and you wouldn''t need to use the scart output from a SkyHD box to distribute the picture, you could simply use the HDMI.

I'd love to be wrong about all this as it would make my cabling life a lot easier!!...Am I wrong??

Cheers,
Freak.

Yes, this would work for any B&O television.

Edit: Provided they're ML connected to that control can move around the network 

Beeanowefreak,

I'm not sure if our being on opposite sides of the ocean affect this problem, since I think it's less an issue of the physical coax cable and more an issue of STBs. For example, here in the states, I can easily run my modem & my cable television off the same physical coax cable, however, if I want to distribute my video sources over that same network using the network of coax that's already been laid in my house (like nearly every house in the US) I cannot choose, say, channel 100 to distribute on since channel 100 already exists on that same frequency. Now, of course, I'm talking about cable TV, which in the US comes through a wire into your house.

If you're using satellite, which is popular here, but less so, it may be different. Is SkyTV satellite?

As for the automatic downscaling, I'm told that the BeoSystem 3 does this, but I could be wrong. Video distribution just arrived this year in the US and so far only in the BeoVision 7 (which is a BeoSystem 3 product here). I have only ever done video distribution as I've outlined in this thread. If it turns out that the BeoSystem 3 will only "pass through" I wouldn't be surprised.

I'd like to hear if anyone from over there has tried anything like this, because it sounds like we may have different infrastructures in place.