multiple HD Direct TV connections

[VST_Man 1]

I have a client that had multiple HD LCD Flats installed with 5 HD Direct TV receivers feeding them. I'm not a audio & TV guy but I do know enough to wonder at what i see.............the owner paid for HD connections to his LCD flats but all the connections are a single RF (F connector) connection to each LCD. In my eyes, it's not a true HD setup because you can't get past 480i via this connection. you need to go HDMI, component, or DVI to get higher.

 

My questions are;

 

- how is a "sports bar" usually wired to handled this many LCD's?

- how does one handle the limititations on cable types to get higher HD? I know you can run 3 RG6's for component, along with RG6 for L&R audio, to get past 150ft. and that you can use special boxes to push HDMI distances.

- Whats the best way of setting this up? Put the receivers closer to the LCD's?

 

oh, and the installer really blew me away when he had the owner place taped cardboard over the IR on the receivers to keep the remote from working on all 5.................a quick remote RF change/setup and that problem would go away.

 

and the ceiling mounts.....he actually took 1/2 threaded rod and bent it to create "U-bolts" and then bolted the LCD's up in this manner. Very tacky. LCD mounts were bent from over torking, poor alignment of the "u-bolt", ect.

 

I'd like to unscrew this for the owner but I don't want to step into someone else do do. Owner is cool with me so do do is pretty much stinkless now. it is what it is, right?

 

is there a good web site out there that engineers this type application with decent descriptions?

[CollinR 0]

What ports are available on the STBs and LCDs?

 

If you have a VGA ports I would just do that.

[Lolo Wolf 0]

Hello VST, here are some reads, Pro AV online my favorite source of industry news for installs, perhaps some of these sites may intrest you as well the highdeff forum has helped in the past on some tricky mod work... http://www.highdefforum.com/ http://www.atsc.org/standards/a53.html http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/2007/08/2007_hdtv_technology_review_part_1_introduction_toc.php http://www.proavmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1781&articleID=588504 (check article on multiple HD displays using video 16X64 Knox video matrix)

[scorpion 0]

Here is one of my favorites!

 

http://www.cable-electronics.com/pdf/comp.pdf

[VST_Man 1]

Thanks.have any of you run into this type of unprofessional install? I'm just mystified at how crapy it looks and even more with the 480i connections when it is capable of higher?

[Lolo Wolf 0]

VST, just started to expand into HT work on a custom basis, have moded a lot of cctv systems for customers... mostly for gated entrys inhouse all TV monitoring and due to the upgrades to digital cable systems have spent a lot of time researching new tech to stay on top of it, found that Gefen http://www.gefen.com/index.jsp carry a excellent line of products you may want to look at... in so far as that mickey mouse install that you will correct Im sure once you clean it all up you will be offered more work from other owners....my drinkin days are over but man Ive seen a lot of real bad setups done by "professionals" in bars/clubs hell spent a week in a cancer center last year, my oncologist got me a great private room with a panasonic Plasma tv with a picture so bad I crawled outa bed to find that the tv feed was a slip on F connector