Why We Don't Default to a 4×4 Video Distribution Matrix

When a house has more than a couple of TVs, how the video signal gets distributed around the property matters just as much as which TVs you buy.

A video matrix is what allows any source — Sky box, Apple TV, a games console — to be sent to any screen in the house, controlled from a single system. The trouble is, matrices are sized in fixed inputs × outputs, and that number needs to match the actual scale of the house, not just be picked off a standard price list.

A 4×4 matrix gives four sources and four screens. That sounds like plenty, until you count up the actual TVs in a modern family home — lounge, kitchen, family room, master bedroom, guest rooms, a study — and realise you've run out of outputs before you've covered half the house.

At that point, some rooms simply can't be part of the system, regardless of how good the rest of the design is.

We size matrices around the property as it actually is, not around a default spec. It's a bigger line item up front, but it's also the difference between a system that reaches every room you want it to, and one that quietly can't.

Our go to video matrix has always been HDA. not only are they the best on the market, the service is second to none, and they are also local to us, only being in Malvern.

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