theatre room roof projector wiring ideas ?
 

Just chasing some ideas for wiring up a theatre room with projector

Need some ideas of a quality way of hooking up a projector mounted on the roof at back of the room with video source at front of the room.

Now what makes this task slightly harder and a once off thing is the room is going to be on the bottom floor of the house and once the roof plaster board goes in ill never be able to get into that section of the roof again. Being that there is a 20cm gap then concrete slab for top story.

So I need something that is easy to get a cable of some length and that retains the quality. Obviously im only going to run the one cable to the projector and then just select the source

Now am thinking DVI/VGA or HDMI.

now thing that makes it slightly more difficult to choose a cable type is how they are ran through the walls and if they have plates on the wall to plug into or one continuous wire to the unit ??

Just need some ideas please any one wired there house up with a projector

Thanks.

actually just thinking about it a little more!

is the one cable going to be enough ?

units that will need to run through are going to be

foxtel
dvd player,
settop box,

maybe xbox or ps

so probably going to have to run a few cables thats ok i guess.
they could all fit on a standard plate .

just gotta make sure projector has enough inputs

I would recommend running one or two cables shielded in the ceiling to the projector and use a switch box next to the appliances before the signal heads into the wall. I would recommend using a DVI or HDMI for a digital cable and maybe a single composite cable for low quality analog signals. although I probably wouldnt bother with the analog cable.

These days pretty much every thing is digital so you may as well run the best quality signal cable you can.

If you are running an amp you'll only need to cable from the video out of your amp to the projector, because the amp does all the video switching with your DVD etc.

You can buy multicore cable (for video) and either run this in the slab through conduit when it is getting poured, or under the dropped ceiling as you said.

I'd also run the cabling for rear speakers at the same time.

You can PM for more info / ideas if you want, I did this shit for 3 years.

yeah amp switching sounds good. ill have to look into what sort of video outs the amps have. some amps have hdmi dont they.

i was also thinking a conduit through the roof and down the wall to a plate. but i still may have trouble feeding it through once its in.

And leave a draw wire in just incase... You can never be too sure you wont want to change something in the future...

guess i could use retic pipeing bit larger as not to get plug ends stuck while trying to draw and put some strong draw wire in there with plate on the wall ?

can you go wireless??

yeah but the quality is no where close to what cables would be.

Running the retic pipe as a conduit is a great idea.
Another idea, depending on how big your room is, is to put all your audio equip behind or beside where you will be sitting. This way there are less problems with all the cabling aswell you wont see all the flashing lights from amps, dvd etc. when watching a movie.