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phatch

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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.
 

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Can I pass the network through the receiver to the TV to populate the Guide or to stream from my server?
Ethernet doesn't work point-to-point like that. Ignoring wireless (which you could probably do, but I like to stay wired too), just run one cable to the general location and put everything on a hub or switch.
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.
This would work fine if you just intend to stream audio. However, I don't think any receiver handles network video, so for video you'll probably be coming through your Bluray player. Wireless BR will still probably work, but if you were going wired for more predictable connection speed, then do what I said above.
 

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Thanks for the answer. Time to look in my parts bin and see how I want to solve it.
 

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