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Hi I'm Charles with ATX Audio Video. Many people have asked how to buy a distributed
audio video system. First you need to examine what it is you would like your audio video
distribution center system to do. You would need to decided the number of your sources,
which could be DVD player, VCR, cable box, DVR, media server just to name a few. Also
how many zones you'll have. Zones are the technical term for rooms. So if you were to
have a DVD player, a media server, a DVD or DVR and a cable box, you would have four sources.
If you were to distribute it through four rooms, you would have four zones. So you would
have a four source, four zone system. The one we like is made by Net Streams, their
product Vigilinx runs off a cat five E, which is network cable. The nice thing about this
is you can run extremely long links, up to three hundred and twenty eight feet without
any signal loss. There's also expandable versus traditional systems which require the initial
purchase of very expensive matrix switchers and patchers. But the Net Stream system is
expandable as large as you like. You can have a one hundred room home, with one hundred
sources all working together.