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Question about AV cast technology.
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Posted by: timckelley

I posted here before with questions about distributing video to other rooms, and at one point I bought a digital modulator but had to return it because it was defective. Since then, I've stumbled on posts here about AV cast technology. But I'm a little confused by it. It's explained at http://crossbarmedia.com/

It looks like you could position your various video inputs in separate rooms, as long as you put a media caster between each device and a coax port. So for example, I suppose I could put a media caster between my TiVo and the coax port, and tune it to some channel, say, channel 80. But the coax needs to enter the TiVo, not the media caster for TiVo to work correctly. Does this mean I'd need a splitter, and send one coax to TiVo, the other to the media caster. And then have AV cables go from the media caster to the TiVo? Then, I suppose the media caster will tune the TiVo's output to channel 80, and send it back into the wall, merged in with all the other channels. Does this sound right?

The next, maybe more important question has to do with the cable caster component. They say you replace the splitter where the cable that comes to the house splits to the various rooms with this cable caster. But in my case, my house doesn't use a splitter per se. My house has built in On Q technology, and has a 3 x 8 enhanced video module. (See http://www.onqtech.com/pdf_lib/Prod...hancedVideo.pdf )

I'm wonder if this module will already do everything the cable caster does, including enabling transmission of the IR signals from the remotes thru the cabling. I emailed the AV cast people and they don't know the answer.