Motor Home (RV) System Help!

[heeman]

An old friend has just purchased a motor home and is looking for suggestions on connecting the following:

"I'll have 2 HD satellite receivers, an over air antenna, cable TV and maybe a hard drive in. I have 6 TVs, 3 wired with HDMI and 3 wired with coax. Is there a box that can handle that?"

What is the most logical way to configure this?

 

[mcad64]

I can't help but wait...what...he has 6 tv's in an RV??

 

[Zing]

Is there a box that can handle that?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say...a receiver.

 

[Akula]

So he's looking for a distribution point that can go from HDMI to coax?

The coax side is going to hurt because it won't have the HDCP capability for HD resolutions.

 

[Flint]

We should reach out to Wardsweb.

 

[heeman]

He wants to be able to access all sources on all 6 TV's even if it is getting up and manually pushing switches.

 

[Towen7]

Scalers and matrix switches exist but are not cheap or simple.

I did some searching and didn't find any that supported a coax output.

 

[Flint]

Sounds like a commercial product.

 

[Batman]

I'd investigate a Dish Hopper 3, and maybe a (I hate to say ) a plex based movie server feeding an HDMI matrix.

 

[Flint]

That is a tall order.

The OTA Antenna can be split with an amplified distribution block and fed to each TV.

Then you need a 4 x 6 HDMI matrix switch and 3 HDMI to Coax converters.

I did some hunting and the only products which come close to supporting this are very expensive. The Matrix Switch alone was well over $5,000. I did find one presentation Video Matrix Router which supported everything (except the OTA antenna) but it cost over $24,000.

This is going to be a tall order. How does a person get 6 TVs into one RV?

Here's an option - Get a HDMI 4 x 4 HDMI Matrix Switch like this first link below, then one HDMI to Coax converter like the second link below, then a composite A/V splitter like the third link below:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/945161-REG/startech_vs440hdmi_4_x_4.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/770116-REG/KanexPro_HDRCA_HDMI_to_Composite_with.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/852197-REG/RF_Link_AVS_14_4_Port_Component_Composite.html

Each of the HDMI televisions can watch any of the sources at any time, but the three composite TVs have to always watch the same source.

 

[heeman]

This is one of those fancy $300K RV's................

Thanks for everyone's help!

 

[Towen7]

Wait ... if he's got a modern RV ... those TVs with a coax run are surely HDMI compatible and the coax is simple there to feed an STB.

If that's the case than I'd get an HDMI matrix switch that uses cat5 between the switch and the set.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I...rix+switch&dpPl=1&dpID=31wW4HVJnIL&ref=plSrch