LCD wall mounting

[TravisT]

I've been thinking about mounting my 27" LCD in my kitchen above the pantry door angled down towards our table on the other side of the kitchen. My problem lies in where to put my satellite receiver. I was hoping that I could find a wall mount that I could hang the receiver behind the LCD (facing down), but I can't find anything. Even if I found something like this, I'm not sure how well the remote would work since the receiver is IR, not RF.

I do have a place in my laundry room where I have most of my networking equipment. I could easily set up my receiver in there and run coax to the TV in the kitchen. I still have the remote issue as well as being forced to run coax between the receiver and TV instead of component cables.

Does anyone have any good solutions for this? What are my options?

Thanks,
TravisT

[kevinw]

Do you have enough space to mount a shelf above or below the TV

[TravisT]

I could do that, but for asthetics would rather not. I would like it out of sight (mostly) somewhere. With a shelf, it would stick out much farther than the wall mounted LCD and that's not the look I'm going for.

Any other ideas?

[kevinw]

How about a pic of the space/room for ideas?

[Splicer]

Thought of a repeater???

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=electronics&field-keywords=remote%20control%20repeater&page=1

[TravisT]

That is a good idea. I actually started looking at them last night. The ones I was looking at were IR/RF repeaters, where the RF from the universal remote was transmitted to RF base station receiver where it is converted to IR to control the A/V equipment that would be located in my closet.

Couple of questions if anyone can answer them.

1. How well do these things work (RF)
2. I saw many with 6 IR outputs. Can I use multiple RF universal remotes to control different outputs, or can you only use one universal remote to control the 6 IR outputs?
3. Which brand is reputable and still reasonably priced (read: cheap :) )

Thanks, and I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow.

TravisT

[TravisT]

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[Wolfpacker96]

Travis, do you have an HD signal or SD going to the LCD? If it's SD and you're on Dish, the DVR I use (see signiture) actually broadcasts the SD out to the rest of my house. My daughter has a TV in her room that she watches that uses the same satellite receiver I use downstairs. It has a RF remote.

If you can't do this, then the repeater is the best option. I just wish my DVR had an output of HD not SD. Hopefully they'll have one of those soon. Great thing about that box is that I get two satellite receivers for the price of one so it saves me on my monthly bill and I don't have boxes all over the house.

[TravisT]

I have two output options. Currently I'm using component (RGB) outputs to my TV. Obviously if I remote mounted my receiver I would have to run 3 coax cables in wall, in addition to audio cables. If this was for a HT setup, I may be willing to do that, but it's for my kitchen so that option is out.

My other option is to run an RG-6 from the back of my receiver to the TV, which I think will be the way I go. I just have to figure out the repeater thing now.

I've done the Dish thing before with the dual tuner receiver. That works well but I'm not going to be using that for too much longer I don't think, so I'm looking for another option.

If anyone can recommend a reasonably priced RF or IR repeater that would be great. Thanks,

TravisT

[Wolfpacker96]

I know you already have a television, but this is cool...

http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/sharp-lc-15l1u-s/4505-6482_7-30893269.html?tag=prod.txt.14

I'm sure in the near future, all these coax cables all over the house will be a thing of the past. And I'm sure they will have add-ons for older TVs, but I don't think anything is out yet. If any knows of something like this please let me know. Imagine being able to put a TV anywhere in your house (well, you still need an electrical outlet of course. Now, if someone would come up with wireless electricity.....) :rockon:


well would you look at that, someone has already thought of it, though on a much bigger scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_electricity

[kevinw]

If you are using he DISH 622 or 722 you can use Component for the main tv and run 1 longer HDMI to the kitchen from the same box. Of course your channel choice would be identical.

[Wolfpacker96]

I did look around some to see if there are any inexpensive solutions, but everything was pretty high that I found. All of it was geared to set up numerous devices remotely, not just one thing like a cable box.

I didn't realize you could hook up the box with both HDMI and component, but that's cool. Doesn't help our friend here though, cause TV1 is controlled by the IR remote, not the RF and he wouldn't be able to change channels. Now, if they just made both of the remotes RF, then you could run a long HDMI (very expensive) to another room and have HD in two rooms and be able to change the channel!

[TravisT]

I think if I had a HDMI connector it would be easier to run a better signal (my receiver isn't HD) than by running coax to the TV. HDMI is great in my book, and the long cables at monoprice.com (just found that website today) seem very reasonable.

In my dream house that I will build when I get out of the military, I'd love to have a central equipment room to house all of my networking, stereo and home theater equipment, and have little to no components scattered throughout the house. I have done makeshift network rooms in the last two houses I've lived in, as well as doing the whole structured wiring thing in them also. I wish they would come up with an easy way to use a wired home network to push video feeds to TV's without the use of any other network equipment (TV that network cable could plug directly into). I'm pretty sure it has the bandwidth needed to pass the latest HD resolutions. Even fiber.

To be able to use one medium to pass all traffic (Data, Telephone, Audio, Video) would be the ideal thing. That wireless deal is cool and it sparked my intrest a while back when sony came out with one (IIRC). Wireless is just so unreliable for anything like that. Convenient but I'd rather run a simple cat5 cable through the wall and be done.

Anyway, if anyone can give me a good source for an RF repeater that would be great. I think this will be the solution to my problems. Thanks again,

TravisT