On 8/2/06, Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2. since you are running analog, the cables are EXPENSIVE > > for long ones and more expensive for high enough gauge > > ones to control the interference/degradation. > > > > > > http://www.cablesforless.com/ > helps a lot with the price of cables. I have bought from them as well, with good service experiences. I've had good luck with them in the past - their middle quality cables > are usually far better than the high quality cables that you find at > Best Buy - for about 1/2 the cost. Even small orders come out cheaper > when you factor in shipping. I will never buy cables from a retail store again :-) Unless of course, you believe all of the Monster / THX Certified / Time > correct windings BS that stores like to spout - well - then, a fool and > his money... Agreed. Oh - and I agree - having a pc in every room with a TV would be a royal > pain. I would run cables - and invest in some RF remote hardware - > something like this: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16880100402 > > for each room. > > If you run short on motherboard ports / processing power - etc - I would > put multiple pcs in the server room. You can easily share disk / > monitor / keyboard / that way - and the noise stays in one place. I was starting to think along those lines as well, after sending my last reply. I'm going to rackmount everything in the closet anyway, so a simple kvm setup wouldn't be too difficult to add. Throw 8-10 small PCs in there, each dedicated to one room in the house, and run the analog outputs from them instead of all coming from the server. -- Dave Sherman MCSA, MCSE, CCNA Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060802/029719b2/attachment-0001.htm