I think ideally you wanna have consider wires for quality and wireless for control. Meaning to retain room to room hi-fi and video quality you can't beat good CAT5 conections from a central media server, but use a WLAN to connect laptops and wi-fi enabled pocket pcs for control.
If full cabling is not an option, and you can deal with FM quality sound, you could use 2.4Ghz transmitters (www.marmitek.com) to publish audio/video to different rooms.
I've got my main media server working like a combined Tivo, CD, DVD player and Jukebox (www.gnudirect.co.uk) and am using pocket pc remote software to control the whole thing from any room (www.gnudirect.co.uk/gnuremote).
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I think ideally you wanna have consider wires for quality and wireless for control. Meaning to retain room to room hi-fi and video quality you can't beat good CAT5 conections from a central media server, but use a WLAN to connect laptops and wi-fi enabled pocket pcs for control. If full cabling is not an option, and you can deal with FM quality sound, you could use 2.4Ghz transmitters (www.marmitek.com) to publish audio/video to different rooms. I've got my main media server working like a combined Tivo, CD, DVD player and Jukebox (www.gnudirect.co.uk) and am using pocket pc remote software to control the whole thing from any room (www.gnudirect.co.uk/gnuremote).