Please help! New flat setup

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Hi there,

I'm a newbie at home cinema and I really could do with some help!

I'm gutting a flat and want to install a really cool media setup.

Ideally I want to have a media cupboard (in the kitchen) with my blu-ray player, Sky HD and media center player.

I want to distribute in very high quality outputs of these to the lounge and bedroom (and possibly 2nd bedroom).

How do I cable the flat for these?

I'm thinking...

1) Lounge and bedroom have seperate speakers sets
2) I purchase something like the Onkyo 808 to power lounge and bedroom speakers seperately using Onkyo's zone facility
3) I run HDMI from the Onkyo to the lounge and bedrooms

a) is this OK?
b) when in the bedroom how do I get the TV to choose the input (i.e. blu-ray or sky) if there is only one HDMI cable running to it?

I dont mind that the bedroom and lounge are not independant i.e. if Sky is channel 101 in the lounge its also on 101 in the bedroom (but I'd still like to be able to turn the channel over).

I could use the DLNA features of the TV to pipe different music through to each room as they are on seperate speaker connections I guess. Unless there is a better way of doing this.

Any help gratefully appreciated!

 

[michael hoy]

Hi,

Have alook at this there are many more out there, but this should give you some help.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. Do you know if this device can carry 3D signals any is there any loss in quality?

 

[michael hoy]

jofanon:Thanks for the reply. Do you know if this device can carry 3D signals any is there any loss in quality?

It should be capable of 3D and there should be no loss of video or audio quality within the recommended cable lengths.

It does show a 3D logo for Blu Ray and Sky 3D on the page I have linked, you need to make sure you use High Speed HDMI cables.