Can i see some photos please?

[ahreno]

I'd like to see some picture of your home theater wall plates. Like where you feed in the wires for your in wall speakers... where your receiver feeds into the wall for your projector... where your video distribution comes out of the wall...

I'm trying to get a grasp on how this all finishes out so i know where to put things.

Thanks!

 

[Sacedog]

Well, here are some of mine. This is inside of my HT furniture cabinet, which is built into the wall, so I was able to terminate inside of it. Some of the plates are cut of at the bottom, as the shelf got in the way.



From left to right and top to bottom:

- Russound VM1 component video distribution
- 2 RG6 / 2 composite video / Elk temp sensor wire / 4 Cat6 data / 3 Cat5e for serial or infrared
- 3 RG59 for r/l and digital audio
- 3 spare Cat5 (blank cover)
- Russound 7.1 HT plate (wired to speakers in HT room)
- Russound 7.1 HT plate (wired back to wiring closet)

I put the two 7.1 plates in, so that I could plug in my receiver locally, or if I ended up locating my receiver in the wiring closet, I could just cross connect these here to run the speakers from the receiver in the wiring closet.

I just moved in 4 weeks ago, and have not had a chance to hook much up yet. What is hooked up is Comcast HD DVR, Sage TV HD200, Wireless Access point (the HT room is smack in the center of the house, so I thought I would get the best coverage here), and my 6 in-ceiling HT speakers.

 

[ysualum]

Well, here are some of mine. This is inside of my HT furniture cabinet, which is built into the wall, so I was able to terminate inside of it. Some of the plates are cut of at the bottom, as the shelf got in the way.

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From left to right and top to bottom:

- Russound VM1 component video distribution
- 2 RG6 / 2 composite video / Elk temp sensor wire / 4 Cat6 data / 3 Cat5e for serial or infrared
- 3 RG59 for r/l and digital audio
- 3 spare Cat5 (blank cover)
- Russound 7.1 HT plate (wired to speakers in HT room)
- Russound 7.1 HT plate (wired back to wiring closet)

I put the two 7.1 plates in, so that I could plug in my receiver locally, or if I ended up locating my receiver in the wiring closet, I could just cross connect these here to run the speakers from the receiver in the wiring closet.

I just moved in 4 weeks ago, and have not had a chance to hook much up yet. What is hooked up is Comcast HD DVR, Sage TV HD200, Wireless Access point (the HT room is smack in the center of the house, so I thought I would get the best coverage here), and my 6 in-ceiling HT speakers.

Sacedog,

Sorry to sidetrack, but could you explain how you use the VM1 and the SageTV, specifically what components/inputs you have going into each. I'm going to have a CAV6.6 setup and was trying to figure out if I need to have both the VM1 and Sage.

Thanks

 

[Sacedog]

Sacedog,

Sorry to sidetrack, but could you explain how you use the VM1 and the SageTV, specifically what components/inputs you have going into each. I'm going to have a CAV6.6 setup and was trying to figure out if I need to have both the VM1 and Sage.

Thanks

I don't use both. I installed the VM1 wallplates for final inspection, but will be taking them out, in order to sell an otherwise sealed unit (you wouldn't be interested, would you ). You could use them together, is you wanted a centralized sage PC, and then use the VM1 to distribute component video straight from the PC. The downside to this, is that you would only be able to watch one thing at a time, and it would cost more than seperate Sage extenders for all the tvs. The VM1 would be handy if you had multiple HD sources that you wanted to distribute, but I found that Sage pretty much does everything I need it to (it was an expensive lesson). So, I would probably recommend going with extenders, unless you have other HD sources that you want to distribute.