Viewing content in multiple rooms?

[elitist]

Not sure if there's a thread somewhere (here, another site, etc), but I'm curious about setting up a "media hub" and being able to watch my movies at different locations (living room, bedroom, etc).

Would you need a PCH for each room? And if so, could you stream the video from 1 computer to each of them?

Any comments, links, etc welcomed.

Thanks!

[jimbo]

Yes and yes. You'd have to either have network cables connecting, use a fast enough electric outlet thingy bridge, or be using a wireless-n bridge to wireless-n router to stream HD though.

Should work fine though.

[titow]

There's a variety of ways you can do this.

1). You can get a receiver with multiple video outs, or a component/HDMI splitter and feed your NMT into that and then output to your various TVs (will need to buy cables to make run from receiver/switcher to TVs).

2). I just have the NMT in my living room with my other home theater equipment. It is hooked up to my plasma via HDMI. I then have a 30ft component cable hooked to the NMT running to my bedroom TV. So, I can view movies from the NMT in the living room (via HDMI) or in my bedroom (via component). I just have to tell the NMT what video output to use (depending on which TV I'm watching).

3). I know there are other ways, but some other people can chime in if they have a better solution.


As far as the computer streaming question, whatever TVs you have the NMT hooked up to will play the streaming media. In my case I have two TVs, but you could theoritically hook it up to as many as you wanted. The more TVs you have you just have to deal with long cable runs and splitters or recievers.

[epete]

titow Wrote:There's a variety of ways you can do this.

1). You can get a receiver with multiple video outs, or a component/HDMI splitter and feed your NMT into that and then output to your various TVs (will need to buy cables to make run from receiver/switcher to TVs).

2). I just have the NMT in my living room with my other home theater equipment. It is hooked up to my plasma via HDMI. I then have a 30ft component cable hooked to the NMT running to my bedroom TV. So, I can view movies from the NMT in the living room (via HDMI) or in my bedroom (via component). I just have to tell the NMT what video output to use (depending on which TV I'm watching).

3). I know there are other ways, but some other people can chime in if they have a better solution.


As far as the computer streaming question, whatever TVs you have the NMT hooked up to will play the streaming media. In my case I have two TVs, but you could theoritically hook it up to as many as you wanted. The more TVs you have you just have to deal with long cable runs and splitters or recievers.

My favorite method is to place the TV in a central location and simply cut holes in your walls, floors and ceilings. You can also position mirrors. With the volume up all the way you can watch from every room in the house. :lol:

but seriously, I have an ethernet jack located at each television location. This way i can connect a PCH to each television. All content, to all TVs comes fron a single PC source.

[titow]

epete Wrote:My favorite method is to place the TV in a central location and simply cut holes in your walls, floors and ceilings. You can also position mirrors. With the volume up all the way you can watch from every room in the house. :lol:

but seriously, I have an ethernet jack located at each television location. This way i can connect a PCH to each television. All content, to all TVs comes fron a single PC source.

Not sure why you would have to cut holes in floors and ceilings to run wire. Every remodel box I've done and seen goes in the wall and the wire runs in the wall. Not the ceiling (unless doing speakers) or floor. Regardless of if he's running video cables, cat5, or any other wire, he's going to have to cut holes. I would assume he doesn't have a cat5 jack at each tv so he would have to place in a remodel box for it (or whatever cable he wants to run). It all depends on his setup, but your making it sound like he won't have to do any work for an ethernet jack. He'll have to do the same amount of work (running wires or cables).

[Goose4all]

titow Wrote:

epete Wrote:My favorite method is to place the TV in a central location and simply cut holes in your walls, floors and ceilings. You can also position mirrors. With the volume up all the way you can watch from every room in the house. :lol:

but seriously, I have an ethernet jack located at each television location. This way i can connect a PCH to each television. All content, to all TVs comes fron a single PC source.

Not sure why you would have to cut holes in floors and ceilings to run wire. Every remodel box I've done and seen goes in the wall and the wire runs in the wall. Not the ceiling (unless doing speakers) or floor. Regardless of if he's running video cables, cat5, or any other wire, he's going to have to cut holes. I would assume he doesn't have a cat5 jack at each tv so he would have to place in a remodel box for it (or whatever cable he wants to run). It all depends on his setup, but your making it sound like he won't have to do any work for an ethernet jack. He'll have to do the same amount of work (running wires or cables).

well.. you got him totally wrong.. he wants to cut holes in the wall to actually see the one TV from all his rooms. so he do have 1 tv and can look through the walls to this.

[epete]

Goose4all Wrote:

titow Wrote:

epete Wrote:My favorite method is to place the TV in a central location and simply cut holes in your walls, floors and ceilings. You can also position mirrors. With the volume up all the way you can watch from every room in the house. :lol:

but seriously, I have an ethernet jack located at each television location. This way i can connect a PCH to each television. All content, to all TVs comes fron a single PC source.

Not sure why you would have to cut holes in floors and ceilings to run wire. Every remodel box I've done and seen goes in the wall and the wire runs in the wall. Not the ceiling (unless doing speakers) or floor. Regardless of if he's running video cables, cat5, or any other wire, he's going to have to cut holes. I would assume he doesn't have a cat5 jack at each tv so he would have to place in a remodel box for it (or whatever cable he wants to run). It all depends on his setup, but your making it sound like he won't have to do any work for an ethernet jack. He'll have to do the same amount of work (running wires or cables).

well.. you got him totally wrong.. he wants to cut holes in the wall to actually see the one TV from all his rooms. so he do have 1 tv and can look through the walls to this.

Correct, sorry for the poor quality humor. Running CAT5 cable to jscks throughout the house did require some careful hole cutting as well, but I am happy I did it.

[elitist]

I should have pointed out that my home is wired.

I have ethernet jacks everywhere. Hell, there's even one in the closet.

To use this method (and keep my house clean without cutting holes and running wire), do I need to get a PCH for each room?

Also, can I watch 2 files at the same time (2 different locations)?