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Steve Stone[_5_]

On 11/9/2015 9:31 PM, wrote:
Hello all.
Finishing my basement.
My wife wants a 50+" tv on the basement wall ..."whenever I'm done." We're NOT trying to make a "media screening room" with perfect seating and acoustics. Just a big tv with some comfy sofas.

My question is, is it worth the effort to extend the cable tv wire to this location from the main floor tv/cable/dvr box? Or are today's tvs and perhaps a dvr box upgrade so fantastic that I can just as well do everything via my local wifi network in the house? I haven't stayed current with the latest A/V tech and I just don't want to go through all the trouble to run the cable wire for nothing.

Depends on what the source of your TV content and the load on your WiFi
router as well as the quality of your WiFi router.

Many consumer WiFi routers can not handle much more than 10 - 15 devices
at once. Once you figure in all the iphones and ipads and computers and
other connected gear you get to that quantity in a hurry.

My main TV has a few runs of RG-6 coax running to it, one for DirecTV,
one for a roof antenna, one to feed output from another video source
upstairs back to this set in the family room. WiFi is also available to
play shows stored on a router connected 2TB hard drive.