I have a history with pretty good stereo equipment: B&K, Yamaha, NAD, Denon and so forth.
I'm finally putting together a simple 5.1 TV system, all Sony for the electronics:
TV: Sony KDL 48w590b
Receiver: Sony STR-DN840
Bluray: Sony BDP BX520
I'm a never cable/satellite customer and won't be starting it either. I have the stuff to do MHL and Chromecast into it all and I have a home brew server I can do DLNA with as well. While the components can do wi-fi, they all have network ports which I prefer to use. I'm just not sure how it's best to network these.
Can I pass the network through the receiver to the TV to populate the Guide or to stream from my server? The user manual doesn't indicate anything. I'm suspecting not.
I can pull cable to the back of the TV area easily enough, but how many cables should I pull?
My gut says to feed 1 network cable to the receiver for home network access and internet streaming from HULU and the like to use the speaker set up. And I should just connect the TV to wifi for the channel Guide data and that should do everything I need to do. Guide data will be fine over wifi.
Thanks for your insight.
I'm finally putting together a simple 5.1 TV system, all Sony for the electronics:
TV: Sony KDL 48w590b
Receiver: Sony STR-DN840
Bluray: Sony BDP BX520
I'm a never cable/satellite customer and won't be starting it either. I have the stuff to do MHL and Chromecast into it all and I have a home brew server I can do DLNA with as well. While the components can do wi-fi, they all have network ports which I prefer to use. I'm just not sure how it's best to network these.
Can I pass the network through the receiver to the TV to populate the Guide or to stream from my server? The user manual doesn't indicate anything. I'm suspecting not.
I can pull cable to the back of the TV area easily enough, but how many cables should I pull?
My gut says to feed 1 network cable to the receiver for home network access and internet streaming from HULU and the like to use the speaker set up. And I should just connect the TV to wifi for the channel Guide data and that should do everything I need to do. Guide data will be fine over wifi.
Thanks for your insight.