Distributing Digital(HDMI) video to 3 displays

[Shane Martin]

My friend asked me how I would do this and I'm a bit stumped.

He has the following devices and wishes to distribute the video to multiple devices in his house.

Sony HDMI Upconverting 400 DISC DVD Changer
HD Directivo with HDMI
Media Center based PC with DVI/HDMI

distributed to:

2 plasmas
1 Front Projector.

[Clive]

The new iScan VP-30 maybe a little overkill but the signal distributed will be of great quality.

[Shane Martin]

The VP30 only has 1 output

It needs to be 3 unless something else needs to be in the chain.

I was thinking:
Instead of the changer: take the media center PC and combine it with a networked HDMI dvd player and go that route for pictures, audio and video. Then wait for the whole house dvr from Directv. He may not be willing to wait on the whole house solution though. This might work provided that the networked HDMI dvd players will upscale regular dvds to 720P via HDMI.

[aud19]

That's one route, otherwise you're going to have to find a multi-output HDMI/DVI switcher....

Another option is whole-house gear. I know Netstreams is supposed to be coming out with whole-house IP based AV (including HD) streaming but I don't know if it will be available in time...?

Otherwise you may have to check with the big boys (Creston, Elan etc) in whole-home though that can and will get very $$$ very quick...

[Clive]

Some kind of switching can be done here