Feb
20
Network Your Home Theater
Filed Under Equipment Cables
It may sound a bit strange but when potential clients ask me for home theater “tips” I always try to mention a network interface for their home theater equipment. In days past we thought about cables in terms of things like composite, s-video, component and eventually HDMI but ethernet cabling is rapidly becoming as important as any other cable in our home theater systems.
Whether for devices like AppleTV, Blu-ray players, game consoles, home theater PC’s, infra-red repeater systems, networked audio/video balun’s or any number of as yet unforeseen home theater devices, you can bet that eventually you’ll find that “killer app” for net connectivity in the living room.
If you’re pulling cable now (or having it done) take my advice; go ahead and add an extra CAT-5/6 cable for ethernet to that list. What about Wi-Fi you ask? sure wireless is an option and in many cases it’ll work just fine, again though I say if you’re already pulling wire, hardwired ethernet’s the way to go.
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