On January 7, 2007 at 05:57, Alec said...
As I have line of sight I am now thinking of getting one
of those IR receivers that send IR signals to multiple
IR devices via the standard cables pasted to the front
of the AV equipment
I would definitely go with IR if you can use it. If you're an installer, I would wonder why you went with the added expense and difficulty of RF if you had line of sight.
The one place where RF is the go-to solution is where your display mucks up the IR receiver. Plasmas almost always do, and LCDs do sometimes.
Simpler technology usually means less capability but less difficulty. For instance, although we have wireless access points for computers, we're just nuts if we don't run CAT5 wherever we can. Copper is more reliable (and faster) than wireless. IR is more reliable (and sometimes faster, for instance with Prontos) than RF.
