HD signal distribution - simple?

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manu
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 06:58 GMT
#1979279

Much of the ML/NL discussion on here seems to revolve around the inability to distribute HD signals from a master (say a 7-40) to a secondary TV in another room (say a BV11).

 

Surely the solution to this is as simple as:-

 

  1. Adding an HDMI splitter to the Sky box

 

  1. Running a Cat 7 cable between the two TV’s

 

  1. Terminating the Cat 7 at each end with an HDMI connector

 

  1. Plugging one HDMI connector into the Sky box splitter and the other into an HDMI socket on the BV11.

 

Seems like a simple and cheap way of getting HD signals on the secondary TV without having to go to the expense of getting Sky multi-room?

 

Cat 7 also overcomes any limitations in long length HDMI cables. Agreed this works for TV only, not BD or ATV etc.

 

What am I missing – anything?

 

 

 

PH
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PhilLondon
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 11:06 GMT
#1979280

How do you change channels?

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Raeuber (archived2)
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 11:31 GMT
#1979281
Every Beovision should have a HDMI OUT socket. So you could connect two Beovisions with two HDMI cables. Probably one HDMI pin could be used to send the remote commands from the first to the second Beovision. With this solution you would have access from each Beovision to any source of the other Beovision. Wouldn't this be the ideal Netlink??

Regards

Räuber
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stefan
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 13:26 GMT
#1979282

Maybe this product can help:

http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=ve810

You can extend your HDMI to max. 60m and control the device via integrated ir cable.

Stefan

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Raeuber (archived2)
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 13:40 GMT
#1979283

stefan wrote:

Maybe this product can help:

http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=ve810

You can extend your HDMI to max. 60m and control the device via integrated ir cable.

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

thanks, but I would like to control my Beovision in mainroom from my Beovision in linkroom, not other devices. As you know, if I watch a bluray in linkroom, only the integrated bluray player in mainroom-BV 7 should turn on, not the BV 7 itself. Nowadays there are HDMI cables with more than 30 meters available, so my solution would be a HDMI OUT socket on every Beovision. A HDMI matrix or a Masterlink Gateway are no options for me, I want a simple solution to watch and hear digital sources in linkrooms (without "modern streaming").

Räuber

 

stefan
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stefan
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 14:01 GMT
#1979284

It`s meant for external - 3rd party devices - not for BV integrated sources. 

So, you will control just the device in the mainroom from the "link"room. BV won`t turn on.

Unforunately, if you turn off the main BV while watching a connected source in the "link"room, this source will be turned off too....

Stefan

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Raeuber (archived2)
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 14:21 GMT
#1979285

stefan wrote:

Unforunately, if you turn off the main BV while watching a connected source in the "link"room, this source will be turned off too....

Stefan

No, not with my setup (BV 7-40 3D in mainroom, BV 10-40 in linkroom): If I watch p.e. on my BV 10 a recording on my Technisat receiver attached to BV 7 and my wife watches a Bluray on BV 7, the Technisat receiver stays on if my wife switches off the BV 7. The Technisat switches off if I switch off BV 10.

/Räuber

 

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PhilLondon
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 14:27 GMT
#1979286

That's right. If you only press the red dot button shortly, the main TV will still keep its BluRay player active as long as a link TV is using it.

stefan
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stefan
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Posted October 12, 2012 at 14:36 GMT
#1979287

Yes, sure , you are right...if you are using Beos Masterlink system.....

I`m talking about a device connected to two BVs via an HDMI splitter using Cat cable and the Aten product. This device would be controled by the PUCs of both BVs, and nothing tells the system, whether the device is used by another BV..

This has nothing to do with a Masterlink system, that we know for many years.

Stefan

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