Where do i start . the cable you guys are talking about is called Structured Wiring. and it is sold in different styles. example it can be bought 2cat&2rg6 or 1cat%1rg6 or 2cat5%1rg6 . i use the 2cat5&2rg6 because my clients tend to use it all. i wire house's with this cable because #1 IT LOOKS NEAT 2 it is all home runs no splitters in the line from source to tv means better picture and better hd. and the reason i use 2 cat5's and 2 rg6's is because the cat5 is for phone and inter net . and the coax's are for cable and sat or cctv or many other reasons. and another reason i use that one is it saves me from having to go back to the customers house and trying to snake walls to add another line . a lot of me customers use both coax's cause they have both cable and sat in their house .
now thats the deferents between us A/V guys that you electrician's think they know it all's call us loser's not a real trade,Well i can go on for ever
Im not trying to diss you guys but i hate getting shit .on the job site from you guys you give us no credit and it piss's me off. it funny how manny of you guys now say you install home theater and cctv and home automation and whole house audio and hang tv's when like 5 years ago if you ask a electrician if you could run a phone line he would laugh in your face ...
so please just leave us alone and let us do are work... :wink:
typical arrogant LV guy :roll:
Structured wiring is the term used to refer to the entire system, not the cable. The type of cable we're discussing is referred to as bundled cable or composite cable.
Of course all runs should be home run, but that doesnt require the bundled cable. Neither does installing two CAT5E's and two RG6 to a TV location. The bundled cable costs more than the sum of the cables in it, is more difficult to transport and install. It requires larger holes in the framing, and you are still going to need seperate CAT5E to run to phone jack locations, and seperate RG6 to for your dish prewire. It makes much more sense to simply stock two colors of CAT5E, and RG6. I have been in three LARGE houses under construction this last year (the smallest was $2.5mil and the largest was $11mil) and none of these used the bundled cable.
A/V is definitely a 'real' trade, and there are many good system integrators and A/V companies out there who do a great job and earn A LOT of money, but for every one of these outfits there are a few dozen other LV guys giving the entire industry a bad name.