to take a second look at what i am dealing with and after poking around i notice that whoever did the original install used HDMI cables. Here are the reasons no one should use HDMI cable's for video routing till all the hardware manufacturers get on the same page with HDCP Compliance.
1. hardware for HDMI is way to expensive
2. HDMI doesn't look any beter than component video
3. there are no fire rated HDMI cables so you can not install them leagally in a wall or celling. unless you do you own terminations. store bought cables are not legal.
4. HDCP compliance between manufacturers sucks. it is not worth the headaches.
Coax is the most cost effective solution, if anyone tells you differently they have not done enough installs to know what they are talking about.
so now i have to come up with a soultion an to top it off the installer used 2 driverack pa's and ran two of the outputs into the inputs of the other. why the hell would you use a DRPA in a sports bar. for the same price you could have installed a biamp nexia SP and had twice the amount of in's and out's. the proper solution would have been two nexia pm's. you would have ton of in's for the cable box's/video matrix switcher and be good to go.
The question now becomes do i install a HDMI matrix switcher (expensive) or repull all the cable and install a component switcher(expensive but not as expensive). that headache over i had to shoot down to the boys at HK (39&9th)
To talk some business. seems like the mini Danley system we installed there is working like a champ. So i head down to sidebar to pick up the last of the tools there. 4:30 and i get to leave the city. Rock On.
What the hell is this.
i hate traffic almost as much as i hate fixing someone else's screw ups. so end another day of running round the city.
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