New house set-up ideas

audi-matt

audi-matt

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Haven't long been in my new house, so my setup was quick knowing il be decorating in February and putting the TV on the wall etc

Now I'm very limited on space, so want my TV on the wall, with a cabinet below with my ps4, (tv amp in the future) and my PC


I'm on my phone ATM so il try and post a pic up of my current situation and how I want it


Few questions has any one used these ?
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=111384184684

And similar items for speaker cable/ Ethernet / ETV

Below where the TV is going to be on the wall has about 1000w x 450d x 500h (mm)
So can't have a long wide cabinet like I wanted :(
But I do have a spare corner on the other side of the room. Which brings me to the idea of using the above

A few examples of the cabinet I want are
http://m.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/art/10269125/
http://www.theplasmacentre.com/tv-s...tands/paris-blk-flat-packed.html?bp=149&menu=

And this
http://m.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/spr/49021553/
But that part of the website is down ATM


I have a 37 inch Samsung lcd TV atm which is about 8 year old but is still really good, and because I have a small living room, I don't want go out and buy 55inch like what the man in me is telling me to do.
So I'm going to buy a TV wall bracket that can support up to a 55", mount the 37" and see how big that looks and gauge it from there what size my new TV will be, although I won't be buying a new TV until later in the year along with the amp and speakers


Ive looked through the picture thread at the top and seen loads of ideas too

Main questions are :-
Would you have your ps4, amps, Sky boxes Etc far away from your TV
And would you use the av socket for the walls?
 
There's really no problem having all of the gear elsewhere in the room so long as you consider three main things:

1) the work involved to bring signal cables from one side of the room to the other (TV aerial /sat dish leads, telephone for Sky, HDMI to the TV, optical if required for TV audio, network cable for the next TV with smart features, IR relay cable)

2) if you haven't yet had Sky installed, your free Sky installation won't generally include the guy ripping up floors and chasing walls. As standard, the dish downleads go on the nearest accessible outside wall.

3) control. You need to relay IR signals from the TV (the focal point for your remotes) back to the cabinet

None of the above are insurmountable obstacles. But all need to be considered before you commit to the plan.


As for the wall plate you show.... You're going to have to hollow out quite a depth in the wall to accommodate all these cable tails without risking breaking a connection. Depending on the capabilities of your AV amp, you'd be better off forgetting the wall plate and just bringing the cables up inside trunking buried in the wall and then out via a 2G brush plate in a standard 45mm deep backbox. Make the cable connections direct to the various devices and then push any surplus cable back down the trunking in to the void under the floor to make the job look neat. There's fewer joins which is a big plus as far as HDMI goes, and you won't be tied to the connections of the wall plate.
 
The sky thing was just an example really, but yeah I do realise the work involve and I am capable and confident about doing it.

The walls have a 1inch hollow cavity to them behind the plaster board so trunking is easy.
I've seen them brush plates too, and they're cheap.

My mate is a sparky so he is going to put a plug socket up behind the TV aswell

So it's really just the case of buying long enough cables to suit?
The wall plate is showed can be customised too, as I was thinking just having an hdmi with an Ethernet one, eg 4hdmi ports

I understand the ir thing too as you don't really want to pointing the remote to somWhere else in the house, would be quite annoying so that idea might not go down well

Ive been talking to the missus and think she want one of the above cabinets, with everything inside and no wires.
So really I've over thought this far too much lol
Just got carried away as I do lol

I suppose this means more money on a better tv or amp
 
Looks like a lot of wires going to the tv to me.
Wouldn't it need only 1 hdmi if the all the other inputs go to an av receiver?
Or am I being a bit dense here?
 
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Yeah mate that's correct

My heads all over the shop at the minute

Il just run the one hdmi, power, and an Ethernet up there then.
Il use the brush plates still though incase I have to run anything else

Thanks mate
I would have went and spent money I didn't have to there
 
You can run a single HDMI only if your current AV receiver converts all signals to HDMI output. If it does then great. If not, then anything that doesn't output on HDMI will need a video connection to the TV.
 
I currently have an old style amp that dosent have hdmi, but the speakers are good.
The old amp dare I say it still runs scart! I rarely used it in the old house as I lived with my folks.

I've been looking at new amps with hdmi input and output.
Seen a Yamaha rxv477/ 677 which I may PPP to rocher sounds some time to look at

The priority is getting the new cabinet, tv on the wall and then decide on the amp.

Il be getting the bracket tomorrow, but it will be 2/3 weeks before I start.
 
audi-matt said:
I currently have an old style amp that dosent have hdmi, but the speakers are good.
The old amp dare I say it still runs scart!
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Alarm bells ringing here!!!!

Does your "old amp" have a disc tray for DVDs by any chance?
 
No mate it dosent
How come alarm bells are ringing ? Lol

I had to run it via a scary to rca cable and it let me have the sound from whatever the TV was playing, I know not everything was 5.1
 
Need help!!

Where do I stand with connecting my PC to the amp, I know il use hdmi, problem solved!!
But it's ran via the graphics card. I wanted an upgraded sound card, so how would it be connected?

Does a sound card sync with the graphics card and just use a hdmi as normal?
Or do I run a hdmi cable to the TV and disable te sound then run a toslink or something to the amp?

Or do I even need a sound card ??
I mainly use the computer to play films and music so this is my main source of media.
 
audi-matt said:
No mate it dosent
How come alarm bells are ringing ? Lol ��
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So few proper AV receivers were fitted with SCART rather than phono/S-video connections because they take up so much real estate. Off the top of my head I can think of only a couple of models that has SCART.

Alarm bells because it's far more likely that anything fitted with SCART wouldn't be an AV Receiver at all. It's more likely to be the head unit/disc player of an all-in-one home cinema kit. That then has repercussions with speaker impedances that then has further repercussions when the owner tries to use the old speakers with a new AV receiver.

audi-matt said:
I had to run it via a scary to rca cable and it let me have the sound from whatever the TV was playing, I know not everything was 5.1
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If the only connections were analogue phonos then I can tell you for absolutely certain that nothing was in true 5.1!! lol. Analogue phono only carries a stereo signal. For audio, SCART is only compatible with analogue phono. There's no means to carry either optical or digital coax via SCART, so no opportunity to carry and decode Dolby Digital.
 
Hi mate

Yeah it was a home cinema kit but didn't come with a DVD player or anything, just a 5.1 system that you can connect everything too it.
(It's about 8 year old but hardly used)

I only used a scart because that was I could listen to anything that was played through the telly, and in all honesty mate I was about 16when I got it lol

It's in the spare room atm, so il have a quick look and see what other connections are available.


Does anybody know the best way to connect my PC to a new av amp?
For the best sound can I use a sound card or just stay with the hdmi gpu port ?
 
Can't beat a TV on a wall with no çabinet underneath

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Check out cinema number two for ideas :)

Before wall speaker install

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