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Wiring a house to make XBox available in multiple rooms
Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:21 am
Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:21 am
In design phase of new house.
Would like to have access to XBox in 3 areas.
Play/rec room above attached garage (would like to have kinect there)
Living room (about 35 ft from play/rec room)
Son's bedroom (about 70 ft from play/rec room).
Is this possible or should I just buy 2 more XBox(es).
Would like to have access to XBox in 3 areas.
Play/rec room above attached garage (would like to have kinect there)
Living room (about 35 ft from play/rec room)
Son's bedroom (about 70 ft from play/rec room).
Is this possible or should I just buy 2 more XBox(es).
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Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:23 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
Are you wanting to have 1 central xbox that will be accessible from three different tv's?
Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:24 am to sicboy
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Are you wanting to have 1 central xbox that will be accessible from three different tv's?
Yes.
Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:28 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
Somebody else could probably answer the more technical side of this better, but the problem I'm seeing is controllers. Wireless ones only have so much range, and unless they make extensions for them, the wired ones are only so long.
ETA: When I say technical, I mean I don't really know if you can have a splitter for the box to 3 different tv's. I know I've had one for one tv and other devices, but don't know if it works the other way around.
ETA: When I say technical, I mean I don't really know if you can have a splitter for the box to 3 different tv's. I know I've had one for one tv and other devices, but don't know if it works the other way around.
This post was edited on 4/10/12 at 7:29 am
Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:31 am to sicboy
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Posted by sicboy
Somebody else could probably answer the more technical side of this better, but the problem I'm seeing is controllers. Wireless ones only have so much range, and unless they make extensions for them, the wired ones are only so long.
That's the kind of info I'm looking for.
Such as:
Can I run hdmi to all.
Is there a way to hook up to a whole house entertaiment center.
Are there boosters or wired remote sensors for multiple rooms?
Probably cheaper to buy more systems.
but having it be "whole house" sounds cooler. Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:42 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
Probably. Plus, if you want to play in one room and someone wants to play something else in the other, you'll be fine. However, you'll have to have separate XBL accounts if you want to go online on the other ones.
Posted on 4/10/12 at 7:49 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
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Can I run hdmi to all.
You can with an HDMI switch. You would probably need a high end switch though, otherwise you might notice input lag.
Biggest issue will still be the controllers.
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:11 am to SG_Geaux
My ps3 is wired to two rooms and my controllers work fine but it's only one room over and it's Bluetooth
I have an hdmi matrix switch I bought from monoprice
I have an hdmi matrix switch I bought from monoprice
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:25 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
70' is too long for HDMI, I believe.
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:28 am to Schwartz
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70' is too long for HDMI, I believe.
What if controller is in living area 35 ft to each. Can kinect be run 35ft to be in play room?
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:34 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
With all the wiring and shite you might as well just get 2 more xboxs. They're only 199 these days.
Why would you absolutely need to have it in all 3 rooms? Why couldn't you just go to the room it's in and play it...?
Why would you absolutely need to have it in all 3 rooms? Why couldn't you just go to the room it's in and play it...?
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:37 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
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In design phase of new house. Would like to have access to XBox in 3 areas. Play/rec room above attached garage (would like to have kinect there) Living room (about 35 ft from play/rec room) Son's bedroom (about 70 ft from play/rec room). Is this possible or should I just buy 2 more XBox(es).
This is silly for multiple reasons:
1. Cost benefit analysis fails.
2. Not looking future forward for next gen tech
3. Better options
There are a few console streaming services out there that will let you mirror your console to another loaction, a la slingbox, so I'd start there. I'd also consider OnLive. Lastly, just buy two more Xboxes. Much cheaper.
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:46 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
I only see this being really beneficial when the new systems come out and are as high as camel pussy but then again wiring is so expensive I am not sure if the cost offset each other.
This post was edited on 4/10/12 at 8:47 am
Posted on 4/10/12 at 8:49 am to T Ba Doe Tiger
I wired every room in my house to where I just have a pigtail ethernet cable and I can move my XBOX around. I designed my entire house with electronics in mind.
Posted on 4/10/12 at 9:57 am to stout
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high as camel pussy
What does some camel pussy cost?
Posted on 4/10/12 at 12:40 pm to Rick Rickles
apparently not as high as giraffe pussy but higher than goat pussy
Posted on 4/10/12 at 12:51 pm to Rick Rickles
I meant Giraffe. My bad
Posted on 4/10/12 at 1:00 pm to stout
I ran a 50 ft hdmi cable from my xbox to the other living room so i could watch hbo go on 2 tvs
Posted on 4/10/12 at 3:18 pm to robzillaaa
The controllers are only part of (but a big part) of the issue. It's going to make more sense use multiple XBox systems.
However, I'd suggest multiple runs of Cat6 to each location from a central location in case there is technology in the future that makes use of them for gaming. At the very least it would give you a central location to distribute video via powered HDMI baluns which are more reliable than trying to push HDMI over recommended lengths without boosting the signal.
Running the Cat6 also gets you ready for whatever comes after HDMI because something certainly will at some point. I'd do a minimum of two runs to each area from the central location and if it were my house I'd probably run four.
Cable and runs are cheap when the house is being built. Very expensive and intrusive after.
However, I'd suggest multiple runs of Cat6 to each location from a central location in case there is technology in the future that makes use of them for gaming. At the very least it would give you a central location to distribute video via powered HDMI baluns which are more reliable than trying to push HDMI over recommended lengths without boosting the signal.
Running the Cat6 also gets you ready for whatever comes after HDMI because something certainly will at some point. I'd do a minimum of two runs to each area from the central location and if it were my house I'd probably run four.
Cable and runs are cheap when the house is being built. Very expensive and intrusive after.
Posted on 4/11/12 at 1:59 am to sicboy
This almost sounds like a good idea. You can def have one system running to multiple tvs or monitors. But you will run into the controller problems, and the fact that the system is in one central location, you have to go to it to switch disks out. I would def do it if it was for me. I wont have to keep moving mine from my bedroom to living room. But if you are doing it for multiple people and uses, id buy another one.
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