On October 1, 2023 at 11:17, buzz said...
It’s only a matter of time until we move to 8K and beyond, stressing copper’s bandwidth capacity. You’d need to trade the cost of running fiber vs running conduit. Of course conduit allows more flexibility. In the short term, before we develop reasonable cost fiber endpoints, conduit and/or CAT-6 will be the easiest to implement.
And we can debate the utility of running single or multi-fiber cable that may be dark for a while.
And people have been saying that we should be using Cat6/7 for almost 20 years but Cat5e is still hanging in there. For a dedicated system, I would install conduit but not for whole house- however, the building obviously dictates the ease with which this can be done.
Video generally looks very good and for many, it's the size of the TV that matters, not the resolution. The good thing is that a lot of TVs can up-convert well enough to use Cat5e and not have many problems.
