Digital Coax
Digital Coax
Is it worth running digital coax cable(50ft) in-wall? What's equipment support digital coax?
I'm doing in-wall cabling running for toslink cable (50ft) to 6.1 surround sound for PS3.
HT receiver, dvd, cable, will be concealed in the back wall.
Toslink, HDMI's (for PS3, laptop etc) will be on the left side of my sofa.
All of my equipments have HDMI's.
Toslink cable is not coax cable it is a fibre optic cable. It also shouldn't be longer than about 40 feet.
It is good to plan ahead but from what I've learned, realistically things are always changing and you may not of thought of everything.
I think the best way to handle the problem of running in-wall cabling is to simply run plastic pipe(s) so that you can do whatever you want and change it over and over.
Since you would run only low-voltage cables you could use any cheap plastic pipe or conduit.
Good luck.
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