Okay, 4th attempt to reply. I don't know why these arnt going through. My apologies if ive seemed rude, I've typed this and it never actually posts?
Okay, so a switch won't be my best bet, because you think ill have issues with stereo/5.1 sound, is that correct? Even if I buy a top if the line switch? So my idea what, since I'm only watching movies on projector once a week or so, what if I just swap the cables? It will all be housed in a cabinet on the otherside of the wall to the TV and about 2m on a straight line from the projector, what if when I want to watch the projector I just swap the cable that's running into it from the TV for the cable running from the projector? Would that run into any issues? Sure, its a little unprofessional, but I don't mind..
Dual HTPCS and NAS, I don't understand how this would be similar in cost to one HTpCs- NAS run in excess of a few hundred, each HTPC is $500, how would that be similar in price? Am I missing something? A website? My HTPC design? Am I doing it wrong? Haha
I can live with a huge case and little bit of a buzz, probably not a few fans running on full but.. It will also be housed in a cabinet, so I imagine that will dull a bit of the noise as well.. The MacBook I'm running makes little noise, so I would imagine a HTPC with a lot of power, just 1or2 two terabyte drives for my data etc, shouldn't be too loud? Minimal gaming will happen on it, I've a playstation for that..
How much noise would you expect something like that to make? I'm no videophile or audiophile, so unless its something people make jokes about it sounding like a rocket taking off, I think I could live with it..
Thanks for your explanation on Infared and serial! IR is ideal I imagine, a cable running the distance seems a lot of work.. Is there a big advantage to it I'm not seeing? Or is it just a solid connection rather than invisible?
EDID, okay- so what if I hooked the TV upto 5.1? Used a digital optical cable (I think that's the right one) from the TV into the amplifier, and used the same speakers to power both setups? Would that remove my issue of EDID? Or?
For signal loss, the area I'm doing in total is about 10m, however the devices are within 5m of each other, with te cabinet that will be housing them in the middle of them, so I'm not concerned about that signal loss anymore
thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!
I'm sorry this took so long
Allex