The cable guy came this morning and I made his life very easy. I decided to try a technology option to avoid running the cable around the perimeter of my bedroom and punching multiple holes in the horse-hair plaster walls. I picked up a 2.4 GHz video relay device from Radio Shack and hooked it up last night. The results were not great.
The video signal quality to the TV is fine, the remote control relay works flawlessly, but the sound quality is noticeably poorer than having a direct connection to the cable box. Tomorrow night I'll try a few different combinations of connections, but I'm not too optimistic.
The other, possibly more discouraging outcome is that my cordless phone cannot be plugged in at the same time as the video relay being turned on. When I turned on the relay devices a horrible static burping noise started errupting from my TV. I then realized that the cordless phone and the video relay work on the same frequency: 2.4 GHz. Fudgebuckets!
I moved the phone with the hope that if it was out of the direct path of the video relay transmitter and receiver, the interference would become negligible. Alas, no. I unplugged the phone, moved it two rooms away, and the burping noises resumed. Double fudgebuckets!
So I think this means I'll revert to my hard-wired phone until I find my old 900 MHz cordless phone. *SIGH*
