I'm working on more of a permanent install for several TVs in my home. It finally occurred to me that having a PC at each TV for Windows Media Center adds too much to the cost of my install. In all, I'll only have four TV's so why not share two PC's?
What I was thinking about using instead is two mini-ITX PC's in a 42" Leviton can. Each PC would feed into the 1x4 HDMI extender below. I haven't decided on a brand of TV yet, so feel free to comment on that too. What I'd like to get are TV's with a published text based IP protocol to where one could use a socket connection and control the TV or receive status changes from the TV when any of it's buttons are locally pressed.
I saw that new HDMI extenders and splitters are out that use HDBase-T signals. Could HDMI splitters and extenders finally be reliable? I've never used an HDMI splitter, but can a splitter distribute protected content over some number of displays? If so, what happens to the other displays when one display is turned off?
Here's the 1x4 extender and splitter combo I was looking at over at Monoprice:
http://www.monoprice...&seq=1&format=2
What I was thinking about using instead is two mini-ITX PC's in a 42" Leviton can. Each PC would feed into the 1x4 HDMI extender below. I haven't decided on a brand of TV yet, so feel free to comment on that too. What I'd like to get are TV's with a published text based IP protocol to where one could use a socket connection and control the TV or receive status changes from the TV when any of it's buttons are locally pressed.
I saw that new HDMI extenders and splitters are out that use HDBase-T signals. Could HDMI splitters and extenders finally be reliable? I've never used an HDMI splitter, but can a splitter distribute protected content over some number of displays? If so, what happens to the other displays when one display is turned off?
Here's the 1x4 extender and splitter combo I was looking at over at Monoprice:
http://www.monoprice...&seq=1&format=2