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After reading numerous review and questions; I decided to help everyone out with what I have figured out.
Sick of seeing all those cables going from your TV to you equipment.
I got the following Vizio wireless HDMI kit.
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Hook up the base unit to your equipment:
CD/DVD player
Cable or dish box
an Apple TV- $99.00
Hook the receiver unit to your TV via one HDMI cable and now you can stream all you music, movies, netflix, pictures etc to your TV which doesn't have to be in the same area as your TV wirelessly. I used heavy duty velcro to connect the receiver unit to the top/back of my TV so it is out of site. The unit sends via radio frequency so it doesn't have to have line of site to transmit data to your TV.
NOTE: you must put your equipment in an area that you can point your remotes to as this still sends data from the remotes via IR but no more cable running up/through the wall to your TV.
Cost:
Vizio HDMI wireless kit- 149
Apple TV- 100
Total cost: $250 bucks!
Audio:
Here's where it gets fun.
For each room buy one of the following:
Apple airport express: 100 new or 70 bucks for a refurb unit through Apple web site:
Sony bluetooth speaker set: (I bought mine at Costco for 149 each with a 30 coupon so 119 each.) Sony RDP-X60iP iPod + iPhone Bluetooth Speaker Dock
I bought 5 of each.
One for the patio, kitchen, master bedroom, living room, and play/game room.
When you setup each airport; name it the room it is in.
You then plug via a 3.5mm stereo cable from the airport express to the speaker system.
Now when you play music from your iPod, iPhone, Android phone, tablet, iPad, laptop, or computer in iTunes; if you click on the little arrow in the bottom right corner- you can select each or all of these devices.
Each one also has it's own volume control in iTunes.
Will it rival a system with in wall speakers and a big amp- NO
Will it sound great and blow your friends away with the functionality, coolness, and save you a bundle - YES!!!!
When you have all speakers playing and the crossover from all them; it sounds GREAT!!!!
I have 5 rooms and spent less than 210.00 per room for airport and speakers.
TV setup was 250.00.
So for 1300.00 I have a wireless system that rocks and uses no wires.
If you have bucks then I would recommend getting one speaker setup for the patio that is the Bose Soundlink.
It is $299.00 and has rechargeable batteries.
Then you can move it around the patio without being plugged in for large areas.
NOTE: you can only play to this device when unplugged from the Airport via bluetooth which means it is the only device playing on your system from your device.
Hope this helps everyone!