whole house audio / visual advice please

[wsoppitt]

help please guys / girls.
I am rewiring my house and want to include a system so that I can watch movies / listen to music in any room from a central computer or harddrive and also create mood lighting.
How would I wire for this ?
I have attempted this and would like some help before I plaster.
each media point has 3 x cat5e going to a central point ( hub )
each media point has 3 x coax going to loft
10 x coax between loft and central point ( hub )
4 core speaker cable from each room via single backbox next to light switch to hub
cat5e cable from each light switch to hub
cctv cables from external points to hub
each light switch is wired seperatly in 3 core back to hub
hub is to house all mains / consumer unit and telephone incomer aswell as all data/cat5 and 10 x coax.

Does this sound like overkill or have I missed something?

 

[telectrix]

sorry mate, beyond my skill level. i'd just leave doors open an strategically place a few mirrors.

 

[Silly Sausage]

sorry mate, beyond my skill level. i'd just leave doors open an strategically place a few mirrors.

Like Alan Partridge :smilielol5:

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

help please guys / girls.
I am rewiring my house and want to include a system so that I can watch movies / listen to music in any room from a central computer or harddrive and also create mood lighting.
How would I wire for this ?
I have attempted this and would like some help before I plaster.
each media point has 3 x cat5e going to a central point ( hub )
each media point has 3 x coax going to loft
10 x coax between loft and central point ( hub )
4 core speaker cable from each room via single backbox next to light switch to hub
cat5e cable from each light switch to hub
cctv cables from external points to hub
each light switch is wired seperatly in 3 core back to hub
hub is to house all mains / consumer unit and telephone incomer aswell as all data/cat5 and 10 x coax.

Does this sound like overkill or have I missed something?

Are you talking about streaming media (DLNA) or something?

A bit more clarification might help.

 

[TJ Anderson]

Seems pretty well covered. I Have HDMI, CAT5 & Coax at every TV point. HDMI does SKY HD, Coax for Remote & Terrestrial overlaid. You can run HDMI over Cat 5 if you wish.

 

[telectrix]

HDMI being some new-fangled thing that won't fit in any of your gear, so you have to bin it all and buy new stuff.just so the manufactured pop music "bands" sound even crappier. worse than bloody car manufacturers.

 

[shanky887614]

bassically cat5 from each room to one point.

a media server goes through your router anyway so that will work for you.

 

[TJ Anderson]

HDMI being some new-fangled thing that won't fit in any of your gear, so you have to bin it all and buy new stuff.just so the manufactured pop music "bands" sound even crappier. worse than bloody car manufacturers.

Come on.... don't tell me you have not bought a new telly in the last 12 years

 

[telectrix]

never bough a new telly in my life. my dad bought one in 1973. a decca with valves for the line output stage. kept the living room warm as well.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Come on.... don't tell me you have not bought a new telly in the last 12 years

Tel's got a garage full of old tellies from his Rumbelows days

 

[telectrix]

Tel's got a garage full of old tellies from his Rumbelows days

haha. thereby lies a tale. worked for them 1972/73. morris 1000 van was my company vehicle. 3 tellys in the back and the front wheels were off the road.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Betamax is as far back as I can remember lol

 

[telectrix]

once had a philips 2000 VCR. them and betamax were stuffed by thorn who made vhs under the brand name ferguson and others. they also owned a large proportion of the retail and rental outlets and so killed off the competition's superior quality machines all for the sake of their corporate profits.

 

[driverman]

Blimey, Thought I was the only one who had a Phillips 2000! You could record on both sides of the tape.

 

[Anthony S]

Blimey, Thought I was the only one who had a Phillips 2000! You could record on both sides of the tape.

They were a pile of sh*t you couldn't get films to watch on them and when the VHS came out they were £500 all those years ago must been 35 years I reckon.

 

[TJ Anderson]

When I was a kid we had VHS but we also still had a Betamax with the remote..... on a lead

 

[driverman]

They were a pile of sh*t you couldn't get films to watch on them and when the VHS came out they were £500 all those years ago must been 35 years I reckon.

I had no probs with it, recorded well and a wide selection of films to hire. Possibly in the 80's. Was bulky compared to todays machines!

 

[Silly Sausage]

haha. thereby lies a tale. worked for them 1972/73. morris 1000 van was my company vehicle. 3 tellys in the back and the front wheels were off the road.

I vaguely remembered you mentioned in the past that you used to fix TVs, Rumbs was just the first place that came to mind!

 

[Anthony S]

I had no probs with it, recorded well and a wide selection of films to hire. Possibly in the 80's. Was bulky compared to todays machines!

35 years was just 1980 I reckon lol was not mine though, the old man bought it with a top of range telly off someone who came down from North with them. The pair were worth about £1,200 all them years ago, he paid about a monkey I think.

 

[Anthony S]

once had a philips 2000 VCR. them and betamax were stuffed by thorn who made vhs under the brand name ferguson and others. they also owned a large proportion of the retail and rental outlets and so killed off the competition's superior quality machines all for the sake of their corporate profits.

All those buildings used to exist in Enfield, Brimsdown all them years ago and I worked in a few doing my time using conduit, trunking, tray, micc, swa etc