9870...Cheaper way to do this?

In terms of cheaper there are cheaper options out there. Things like the AVO-V3AD which you can find at avovercat5.com. They're about $90 a piece. They'll let you send component and sound over cat5. What they won't allow you to do and I haven't seen anything else nearly as well integreted as the AA solution is also deal with router IR, handling splitting and stacking all in one unit. The AA option allows you out of the box to send signal to two locations at once (more if you stack 9871s), route IR commands back to the source location and push both analog and digital audio. Again, you can definitely recreate all of what the AA system does. I'm not sure you can do it for much less by the time you bundle in everything together. And certainly you won't be able to do things as cleanly as the AA system allows.


Ben

I was just wondering, if its really worth $599 for the 9870 kit. A HDTV tuner. If you have comcast, an additional HDTV tuner is $5.00/month. it would take 5 years to equate, n by then technology would advanced more.
Can anyone who has experienced 9870 kit, tell me how is the clarity on it. is there any reduction or is it the same as having an additional box.

thanks
Sanjay