Comment This one's simple AND cheap: YES! (Score 1) 57
This is the preferred way to do it. I've worked on some projects building Outdoor Broadcasting vehicles which are technologically the most crammed spaces you could imagine. Think 10 kilometres of cable in 12 meters of truck....
The audio and video monitoring is almost always set up as a central matrix router feeding analog or digital video and analog audio to the different work positions inside the truck. Control of what goes where is done by custom button panels at each position. The distribution is done at line levels for audio and then levels and mono/stereo are selected at each position. Amplifiers are local, most of the time built into the speakers. If I were to build somethin like this in a house I would definitely have a central matrix controlled by some computer resource, with some audio-follows-video implemented, and audio fed via either AES/EBU digital or balanced 0 dBu analog.
Video would ideally be S-video or component.
Running destructively compressed audio like MP3 where bandwidth is not an issue (ie in a LAN or in an analog situation.) is imho stupid beyond comprehension, mainly because destructive compression sucks snooker balls through 14.4 dialup connections. There are places where you can benefit from it, yes. But not at home.
The audio and video monitoring is almost always set up as a central matrix router feeding analog or digital video and analog audio to the different work positions inside the truck. Control of what goes where is done by custom button panels at each position. The distribution is done at line levels for audio and then levels and mono/stereo are selected at each position. Amplifiers are local, most of the time built into the speakers. If I were to build somethin like this in a house I would definitely have a central matrix controlled by some computer resource, with some audio-follows-video implemented, and audio fed via either AES/EBU digital or balanced 0 dBu analog.
Video would ideally be S-video or component.
Running destructively compressed audio like MP3 where bandwidth is not an issue (ie in a LAN or in an analog situation.) is imho stupid beyond comprehension, mainly because destructive compression sucks snooker balls through 14.4 dialup connections. There are places where you can benefit from it, yes. But not at home.
