Data (Internet) to the Television
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 1:16AM From the most basic perspective, if you are not specifying or installing data cabling to your client's television locations you are doing them a disservice! At a minimum provide (1) RG-59 (prefer RG-6) coaxial cable and (1) Cat5e cable from the respective service points to each television AND DVD location.
With the continued progress, changes, and competition in the entertainment distribution and content landscape, many if not most flat panel televisions and DVD players come with provisions to connect them to the internet. Similar to satellite cable boxes that utilized a phone connection to update access cards, televisions and DVD players can update firmware, pull weather information, stream YouTube videos, Netflix or any number of offerings depending on the brand purchased. For example, Sony's 2010 Bravia models have Yahoo! Widget Engine to pull down Amazon Video on Demand, YouTube, Slacker and other web-based content and Panasonic's Viera series televisions offer VieraCast.
Do not bring cables to the DVD only and believe it is sufficient. We will discuss additional provisions for wall mounted and built in televisions in another posting.
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