Plan A Home Theater Room

Plan A Home Theater Room

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I'm adding a family room and want to run wire, while the roof and walls are open. I am running 14 or 16G speaker cable for surround sound, speakers, My question is what do I have to run from the location of the media center television for the location. I am planning for cable television, DVD, and Wii or Xbox 360. As for 46ish inch Samsung LCD TV. Currently, I have the "cable Cable TV and the cat 5. What else should I run? Thanks

SHORT ANSWER: Add HDMI cables and component cables to run certainly depends on how you will wire each device that you mentioned ... but in a perfect world, this is what I would do: 1) Keep the "wire cable" also known as coaxial cable. Make sure it says "RG 6" cable, not the old "RG 5". 2) Keep the cord Cat 5e (Cat 5e or Cat6) are well. Do not use yellow Cat 5e cable, long story. 3) I suppose all the other devices in your media center - your Xbox360, DVD, etc - all will be connected a true home theater receiver before the receiver in turn pass the signal over your TV. If that is true, and the receiver is new (<1 year of age), then all you need is an HDMI cable to pass along all of those signals. HDMI is both audio and video for digital sources. Increased receiver can not upconvert other video signals via HDMI, though, so he had to run a component (red-blue-green) cable, in addition to covering the best of the Wii, an input, video camera, etc. .. And a matching pair of RCA (white-red) for audio not. If you are not using a receiver, I'd say it's a good time to get one ... otherwire going to run a hell of a lot more cables: Xbox 360 - Blu-ray/PS3 HDMI - HDMI Wii - Component cable (if any) - HDMI DVD player with luck - component video + RCA - RCA (yellow) or s-video + RCA (red-white) camcorder, etc. .. ???? Look what I'm saying? Good luck - hit me again if there is more.

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