I have a media niche that has a power port, phone jack (for a DBS receiver) and two cable jacks installed by the builder. Presumably one for cable and one for satellite. Due to the location of the niche and the fact that it has a "bar top" as opposed to being connected to a wall that goes up to the attic, it would probably extremely difficult or impossible to run any additional cables to the location of the existing 2 cables.
Based on these photos, do you think there is any feasible way to fish 2 additional RG6 wires down in to that media niche?
I have a dual tuner DirecTivo that requires 2 cables as well as a cable hookup for basic economy cable I signed up for to get a discount on the high speed internet. Occasionally I watch the cable to see community access channels or to watch a third live program while both tuners are recording.
I am going to get rid of that big CRT and get a 37 inch plasma that will go into the niche on a wall mount arm with the audio and video components on the floor of the niche. That will get rid of the clutter and open up space for more seating. Plus, the room is rectangular and we will be able to sit further back from the screen if we use the niche. That love seat is now only about 4 feet from the 36" CRT and it would be at least 8 feet away from the new plasma that's going into the niche if the seating were against the window and facing the niche instead of facing that wall.
2 additional cables were fished through the wall for the DirecTivo on another wall behind the tv in the photo and it looks really ugly since there is no place to hide the DirecTV cables running back to the niche and I'd like to get rid of that cable run without giving up either DirecTV or the basic cable. Even if the cables were run under the carpet, they would have to come back up somewhere to get into the media niche.
I currently use one of builders 2 cable connections in the niche for cable tv to the tv set and the other to feed the signal from the tv set back to a bedroom to use as a "mirror" for the DVR. The cable line to the bedroom TV also is shared with a cable modem.
When the plasma goes into the niche, we will need access to 2 DirecTV cable inputs plus a line for the cable tv, plus a line mirroring the output of the TV to the bedroom all within the niche.
Is it possible to make 4 cables out of the 2 ports in the media niche (via a diplexer or something) so I can get all the functionality I need without running new cabling?
What will be the neatest way to get speaker wire near the window for a subwoofer and the rear channel speakers?
Based on these photos, do you think there is any feasible way to fish 2 additional RG6 wires down in to that media niche?
I have a dual tuner DirecTivo that requires 2 cables as well as a cable hookup for basic economy cable I signed up for to get a discount on the high speed internet. Occasionally I watch the cable to see community access channels or to watch a third live program while both tuners are recording.
I am going to get rid of that big CRT and get a 37 inch plasma that will go into the niche on a wall mount arm with the audio and video components on the floor of the niche. That will get rid of the clutter and open up space for more seating. Plus, the room is rectangular and we will be able to sit further back from the screen if we use the niche. That love seat is now only about 4 feet from the 36" CRT and it would be at least 8 feet away from the new plasma that's going into the niche if the seating were against the window and facing the niche instead of facing that wall.
2 additional cables were fished through the wall for the DirecTivo on another wall behind the tv in the photo and it looks really ugly since there is no place to hide the DirecTV cables running back to the niche and I'd like to get rid of that cable run without giving up either DirecTV or the basic cable. Even if the cables were run under the carpet, they would have to come back up somewhere to get into the media niche.
I currently use one of builders 2 cable connections in the niche for cable tv to the tv set and the other to feed the signal from the tv set back to a bedroom to use as a "mirror" for the DVR. The cable line to the bedroom TV also is shared with a cable modem.
When the plasma goes into the niche, we will need access to 2 DirecTV cable inputs plus a line for the cable tv, plus a line mirroring the output of the TV to the bedroom all within the niche.
Is it possible to make 4 cables out of the 2 ports in the media niche (via a diplexer or something) so I can get all the functionality I need without running new cabling?
What will be the neatest way to get speaker wire near the window for a subwoofer and the rear channel speakers?
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