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Tools of the Trade / Re: CCTV Monitor

« on: Jun 25, 2008, 12:35 am »

I once used a similar system in a high school auditorium.  I ran composite video out of a camera into a box that connected to the school's CAT6 network using a standard ethernet cable and broadcasted on a defined TV Channel.  On the monitor end, I used the regular coax jacks and, where there weren't coax jacks, ran an ethernet cable to another box that had a coaxial connection.  I could then tune into the channel on which I was broadcasting anywhere in the school.

...there was a piece of equipment, a black bar, that connected via a coaxial jack into the school's cable system and broadcast whatever was hooked into it on a specific TV channel throughout the school...

I am not sure what kind of equipment could broadcast into a cable system with a coaxial connection...I am only vaguely familiar with this method of using the ethernet (of which the cable system was a part).  I am quite sure that this was not the exact same equipment I was using, but here is a start: http://www.broadatacom.com/site/products/products-4.html.  Hope that helps!

Zane