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You may just want to compare the Quality of picture you can get with a 1080i or 1080p when directly connected to tv with your HD singal (BD PLAYER or SATBOX) to the picture that gets scaled down to s-video and goes through that configuration and then rescaled back to HD.
just my 2 cents
Tim
Well if you want a totally clutter free environment... and some people do for sure... then centrally locating all MD's & the Core/AV Amps etc is certainly one way to go. We do installations like that sometime when our customers really dont want any equipment other than the screens in each room/zone. We would then use multiple CAT5's to each screen;
- 1 x CAT5 for USB
- 2 x CAT5 for HDMI (using HDMI over CAT5 converters)
Then you would have your MD's in the rack with the Core and use a USB to CAT5 + HDMI to CAT5 transmitter per MD and a CAT5 to USB & a CAT% to HDMI Receiver at each screen. You then can have a small unpowered USB Hub behind each screen and attach your MCE Tranceiver for IR remote control, a wireless keyboard and a USB-RS232 interface into the screen (if it has RS232 control capability). This gives you everything you would have if you distributed the MD's behind/under the screens but does away with the clutter. Downside is a lot more cable to install and a big rack. But if thats a trade off your happy with its works very nicely. Its a testament to how flexible and powerful LinuxMCE is that you can achieve this.
Hope this helps.
Andrew
Andrew Thanks the the information i need...
but your just the person I need to speak with.... I was had no idea about linuxmce before last month... Im stilling the framing process but not for long before we drywall.... SO Nothing is in stone.... Can you please help me set this up.... Before i get started ... I was just going with a russound multi zone multi room system... because of the cost you get all those keypads and the system to do like 12 seperate video source and a bunch of audio zones for like 10,000... all the other system like linuxmce are really like 30,000k or more to do a house my size got alot of quotes so were like 150k so... i kinda wasn't doing anything inot this realm of home automation till I found linuxmce now... IM HOOKED... but what would you recommend please if you could build you dream setup...
Thom,
I want to become a contributing member to LinuxMCE. The challenge however, is that the original changechannel.py craps out with an error message if you enter 4 digits. I am not sure how to create a template to send 4 digits to a script that only accepts 3 digits. I will do some research on how to create the device template.
Questions
1. To whom should I post the device template once complete?
2. Please advise on how to get around the digit restrictions in changechannel.py
As an FYI, there is a driver issue with pl2303 in the 2.6.22-14 kernel that I still need to address. Please see http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7242.0;topicseen
Thanks
