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This one pertains more to my commercial applications, but has uses in residential areas as well.

For years now there has been a debate on type of wiring to use for high definition.  HDMI or Component?  The answer has never been clear cut.  HDMI does have a nicer, crisper picture, but it is not without it’s problems.  Signal loss over long runs, digital distortion, and very expensive.  Component, although cheaper, requires 3 cables for video and 2 for audio.  Not such a big deal in a home theater, but imagine in a sports bar with 52 hi-def tv’s and 10 hi-def projectors.  That’s 5 wires per tv ALL joining up at the same point.  Therefore in a small area, (usually cluttered with the bar staff’s purses and papers and coats and such) you have 300 some-odd wires to terminate, sort out, and hopefully maintain some semblance of neatness.  This has been no easy task, I can tell you.

Most flat panels today are equipped with an ATSC tuner.  Anyone with an antenna knows what this means.  HI DEF!!  An off air antenna can provide you with networks, in high definition, all through a single coaxial cable.  (RG6 please!)  This is useful enough, but so much hi def content isn’t available on antenna (TSN, Sportsnet, ESPN, the Score, Discovery Channel,  A&E etc.) that people are still stuck with their cable boxes and satellite receivers to receive all their programming.  This brings us right back where we were.  HDMI and Component.

Well kids, there is a new player on the block.  A company called ZeeVee has come out with a device that will distribute any component signal over a single coaxial cable in glorious 720p!  There is a model that will do 1080p, but it carries a much higher price tag and good luck finding a BlueRay player that will output 1080p over component cables!

What does this mean?  It means one coaxial cable stretched around a sports bar.  It means waitstaff not having to figure out what an “input” is.  It means a much neater install.

I think my job just got a whole lot easier!

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