Video Distribution:
A Visual Feast
Electronic Home designs and installs whole house video distribution systems. From CCTV to HDTV, we do it all.
We have a very visual society so it is only logical that our need to get video from one place to another is growing. Front door/gate and baby cams have been driving that need for years, but the digital age has brought on other needs. Video and PCs are converging changing the way we get information and even our shopping habits! Pay-per-view movies and new video-on-demand services are creating demands for even more flexibility in our home electronics. We offer a variety of solutions!
Who needs video distribution? You might surprised. Video distribution is used to add convenience, security and peace-of-mind to your life.
The most common form involves CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) signals. I am sure everyone is familiar with having a camera at a gated entrance, door, swimming pool or a nursery. Checking on who is coming to see you or watching the kids play while you work is invaluable. Newer technologies even allow you to do this from your office or anywhere in the world via the internet!
More people are also seeing the value of sending a Bluray / DVD, satellite, CATV or VCR signal to multiple rooms in the house. This allows you to finish up a movie in the bedroom while others continue to watch it in the theater. If you are entertaining, you may want the kids to watch a program in the playroom while the adults watch in the living room enjoying conversation without all the background noise.
The most basic form is to create in-home channels that any TV in the house can tune to (this is called "modulation"). RF and infrared repeating systems allow remote control of these devices. This is the easiest and most cost effective method, however, with the higher resolution devices available today such as Bluray / DVD, satellite, HDTV and the convergence of Video and PCs, you may want a more sophisticated system.
Home Automation Systems are allowing the integration of many audio/video subsystems giving greater control and feedback. Matrix switching devices allow higher quality distribution by using baseband, S-Video, Component, RGB, SVGA and, more recently, HDMI signals. Newer technologies allow these signals to be distributed over much greater distances than in the past, making high quality whole house distribution a reality. The same technologies are also allowing us to physically locate these sources about your home adding convenience.
If you read our industry magazines, you may have read about the up and coming "Analog Sunset" which is a scheduled obsolescence of High Definition signals being output to analog connectors. If this was simply a technical issue, we wouldn't have a problem, however, some aspects have become political and the government has added their two cents complicating things even more. There are many informative and enlightening articles on the subject, but many more that are simply false and misleading. The best part is that you don't have to worry about it as we offer technical solutions that aren't affected by the politics or timelines Future proof your home now and save the agony and expense of having to redo things in the next year or two or three.....
Call Electronic Home today to discuss your particular needs. Changes in this arena are fast and furious; you never know what is possible!