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[quote][i]Originally posted by stubs[/i] Hmm, I still dont see the point in spending so much on cables TBH. We used to do £100k+ installs involving media servers, full HD distribution, home automation, muli-room audio, lighting control etc.. etc.. and never used £100 HDMI cables. Ideally, the best practise it to allow your AV amp to control the source switching, so you should only need 1 feed from the amp to the TV. When it comes to allowing for future expansion (or faulty cables), we used to run a couple of coax to to each screen to allow for antenna connection & IR signalling, and also built-in freesat for the Panasonics... then a few runs of cat5 to take HD over a set of baluns.... and the main feed from the AV amp would come down 5 core AV component cable (made to length on-site). Another advantage of custom made cables is that if for some reason a connector is damaged, it's much easier to repair/replace than a fiddly HDMI connector. This was plenty of cable and we rarely used it all unless one of the sparks on a job cut through any of the cables. I'm not having a go, but just saying for any future installs you do, you could save yourself a packet.. I used to have the same way of thinking about paying lots for decent interconnects. Until I got involved in the big installs, and realised that interconnect cables have a huge mark up and are heavily pushed by most high street "hi-fi specialists" Looks nice though :) [/quote]
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