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Question

PC video in (hdmi or dvi) and Tv cable out

Feb 2, 2015 3:01AM PST

Hi,

I'd like to link my computer to 5 TVs in my house but I don't have the slightest idea what device/aparatus can do this.. Could someone give me some examples of how this can be done. Price cheapness should bear in mind.Thanks!

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Frankly the industry designed this to never happen.
Feb 2, 2015 3:15AM PST

HDMI employs HDCP and with HDCP 2.2 it's even harder to crack. You could try HDMI splitters and matrix boxes but I would be guessing if that will get what you want. Some folk want to store video on the PC, play different titles on each TV and what a mess of solutions.

Even the cheapest splitters tend to be a few hundred bucks.
Bob

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PS. The fire hose?
Feb 2, 2015 3:31AM PST
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It's not that bad
Feb 2, 2015 4:50AM PST

No, Bob, the sky is not falling Wink

Sure, you have to sometimes deal with occasional hiccups, but extending a PC throughout the home is not difficult, provided you can wire it all up.

Yes, an HDMI matrix splitter may be used to achieve this task. Most content from a PC is not encrypted either, so it's really trivial to send it along to a display elsewhere. It's mostly content from cable & sat boxes that starts to get odd if your goal is widespread distribution throughout a home, including controlling it all from each individual point.

To the OP> HDBaseT is still not a bad way to go. Most importantly, cheaper is rarely better when video distribution is concerned. Wired is always better than wireless too.

Search through some recent threads in this subforum about similar topics. I recommended a few options not too many weeks ago.

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Simple solution
Feb 3, 2015 4:11PM PST
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That is almost always a non working connection. Plus
Feb 3, 2015 11:31PM PST

Plus it would be non-HD. At best it would be 480p but should be old 480i.

It would be cheap, bad looking compared to HD.
Bob

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Not usually
Feb 4, 2015 12:55AM PST

Once you make the jump to HD, integrating PCs in the mix you have to expect some amount of cost in order to upgrade to such a system.

Only if we were still in 1998 would such devices help you out.