there's three different places in the house where we're gonna have a tv or a projector family room upstairs the vr
gaming space here and the theater room and if we wanna have the capability to
play xbox games in all of those locations i'm gonna need three xboxes
multiply that problem by every other potential gaming system got your
nintendo switch you got your gaming pc and all of a sudden you've got a huge
problem with respect to cost complexity and even just power consumption
fortunately as much of a champagne problem as that might be the solution is
not that champagne and is one that might actually be applicable to you as well it
might be a six thousand dollar receiver but the feature that we're gonna use is
present on a lot of them even the one that i bought for like 100 bucks has two
zones what we're gonna do is use those receiver zones to split this xbox into
both displays so you can play xbox here xbox there pc there pc there nintendo
switch everywhere and what's really mind-blowing is that on this particular
unit we can actually take two different inputs like the gaming pc and the xbox
and then route them to two separate outputs at the same time you can even
mirror them you can switch which one has which it's it's pretty exciting just
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naturally the first thing we need to talk about in this video is Jake's
beautiful diagram of how we expect all of this to work we did this together
thank you very much so if it doesn't work you're sharing blame basically we've got our receiver we've got our
xbox going into the receiver then we run the e-arc from the screen one which is
the projector to the receiver and the regular HDMI output to the vr room tv
this should give us 4k 120 to the receiver and then can be split or
switched between these two zones mirrored and then you get e-arc back to
the sound bar and the receiver has its own speaker so we don't have to worry
about something in the theater room then the pc okay even though this receiver is
like top of the line it only has a single 4k 120 hertz input
now we have a solution to that in the long term which is just a secondary HDMI
input selector but we don't have that today so to test we're going to run the
pc directly into a 4k 120 input on both
the projector and the tv then we use er to get the audio back that's the idea we
don't know if it's going to work representing the vr room tv we're going to have this lg c148 inch and then
representing the theater room projector we're going to have the theater room projector epson
whatever it is 12 000. the models here are actually kind of important we need
both displays to have er i actually picked a monitor as one of the displays
first and then it was like oh that's not gonna work we also need our
display to have e-arc on a port that we're not gonna use because remember
it's just for the sound bar so we need like three HDMI 2.1 ports just for these
two inputs and then naturally sonos in their infinite wisdom doesn't have a single
additional HDMI input oh jesus look at the tv oh my god you're not even on the
ground oh my god oh my god thank you
you might say you jumping in to fix that makes you an arc reactor
sound bar goes into HDMI input 2
e arc which allows the sound from
yes the sound from the other 4k 120
inputs to be passed through to this sound bar is this hurting your
brain yet uh yes it's hurting my brain okay you should use monitor two because
we're not using the zones yet we're not if this plan works we don't even need to
use the zones it's confusing right monitor one and monitor two those are
both zone one what i've determined this because it said it had like three zones
it does have three crutchfield's documentation the third zone is audio
only i see remember the pc doesn't even plug into this thing so this will allow
us to mirror the outputs basically on zone one now we take our xbox series
whatever it's called that goes into 8k in that's our only HDMI 2.1 input on
this whole damn thing 5 000 receiver and
you know the best part they release like new low end receivers that have three
inputs in the time since i bought this yeah
actually it was like a week after you bought it where are you going i need the power i'm plugging this into a computer
you're a computer you're a computer now we're not done yet because this graphics
card now needs to go to both of our displays
separately from the receiver okay so we have one on either right now but we also
want to be able to have it on both right yeah
so switch the tv to
HDMI 3 which is the xbox beautiful oh
shut up was it really that easy okay what's cool about this you could have
people gaming in the theater room and people are like playing board games out
here and just peripherally paying attention to who's winning or whatever
or you could be playing a local multiplayer game like a split spring
green game or whatever and you could have each of the teams sitting in a separate zone so that they can talk to
each other like kind of have private comms between the two rooms wait hold on
what uh what about audio though because we have
audio there oh that's theater room but not here
no i don't hear anything oh zone wait it's home because they're both zone one
yes why don't we just use two zones then because then it's
not 4k 120. it would just be 4k 60. there's only one
4k 120 input but if we could select that
input on that output yeah that's what i thought crutchfield okay let's try that
then okay so we need to switch to the other zone like i said
i pulled the tv out of the monitor 2 for zone 1 and i put it
into 4k zone 2 which is under HDMI hdmio 8k
okay so zone two says it's on the game source right now i can see all the
sources here so if we go view zone two oh what
game okay so we want aux 2. where's ox 2 it's
not there what if we let's look at the main zone what options do we have for
mainz though whoa a lot more wait
it just doesn't even let you select this use because it's 4k 120 bro i have a
workaround big but it wouldn't be 4k 120 on both oh
really but but you can do 1080 120. oh that's not
bad so i'm thinking the xbox would be on that okay i put it back in the other way
then this is just a theory too i don't actually know if this will work the best part of all this is that even if we
solve this problem we have more problems to overcome today what i did notice is
you can see like game dvd cable sat on both of them yeah so i figure if we plug
the xbox into one of those then we can just pick and choose xbox into game well
then the pc doesn't have to have separate things out to each thing it
could just use the 8k the hoodie would he win or wait on the pc nothing nothing
yeah yeah well let's do pc into the tv because
then it can arc the sound back to there and then pc into uh the ak input so that
we have sound from the receiver otherwise we're not gonna have sound on the receiver so if we take the pc
plug it into the 8k input so pc is aux
2 now and the xbox is game so we'll do game for zone 2
okay and then main zone let's do game as well let's see if we
can get okay cool it's on both right uh-huh do we have audio
well the arc is working and we have audio here
yeah okay well that's progress
so we have audio on both now and video on both and if we go into the xbox menu
what your tv doesn't support 120 hertz what yes it does Jake told me not to
power cycle everything so i power cycled everything anyway
there it is okay but will it stay is the car come on come on yeah
does the projector even support this resolution though 1080p 120 i bet it
does i mean if it does 4k 120 why would it not do 1080 120 i mean
i've seen dumber things in fact i don't even see
it having a signal right now maybe the projector doesn't like it then epson
you all got some splaining to do if it could do 4k 120 then you guys need
to enable 1080p 120 okay well hold on
this might just be like receiver being stupid
Yvonne's gonna kill me if this whole setup is just like
super complicated and stupid that's kind of what it's looking like 4k 60 xbox we
could do that if 4k 60 is fine then we just need to figure out the pc okay yeah
so we got both let's check the pc now man now the idea is not necessarily that
you would want to mirror the displays all the time so before we check the pc
should we see how easy it is to say oh um actually i want the xbox
out here or i'm actually i want it in the theater room now i go to zone one
which is my projector and i can say okay i don't wanna see that anymore i could
go back to zone two i go back to the game input and
sweet okay so that's not that bad that's actually not bad once we've just got it
built into a couple of harmony remotes or whatever those new like kickstarted
ones we'll have to try it i guess all right what if we try to switch to the pc
now though yes main zone yes main zone which is the theater room
i wish you could rename those and they weren't hard-coded on a remote but
okay cool okay now for audio yeah hold on hold on
oh god oh i stepped on the remote okay
there's our in-game audio now hit me with this man craft rave is such a masterpiece
this is awesome okay hold on but what if we want the pc in both locations
then all we got to do is go like this
HDMI one which will be done by the harmony now i need to know if this also
is crab rave
no because we passed it it's not
because the pc oh god Windows no no there's an
application there's an app oh yeah a voicemeeter yes this is outputting two
different things yes okay we gotta set our Windows output to voicemeeter input
yes and then we have hardware out that's the denon and the second one should be
lg tv lgtv
i turned it all the way to max
yeah holy it works but we're not done
for today just because we can take our different inputs and send them to
whatever outputs we want doesn't mean that this
is how we want that to go down so the projector needs to move to the
theater room the tv needs to stay here and the xbox needs to go somewhere in
between dude if this falls like this thing's done for you you know that much but
falls that way oh it's actually like see
these are cool these are the solution to having our source devices be the xboxes
or gaming pcs switches whatever else the case may be and then our displays in
completely different locations so both of the cables i'm holding are active
HDMI cables from phantom cables these can come in a couple of different
varieties copper active cables so these are
directional you got to plug the specified side into your source and the
specified side into your display and then they're going to have pretty thick copper conductors because they actually
are boosting the signal effectively to make it all the way to the other side
then you've got your optical cables these can either have an auxiliary power
input like this vivify one or they cannot but they actually convert
from copper zeros and ones to light
zeros and ones and can often go much farther like you can do a hundred foot
you could do a hundred meters you can 100 meters yeah this 25 footer is gonna
be pretty tight oh do not pull no no i'm not gonna pull out i'm just gonna go
here for safety yeah if you just want to go there and hold it then i can pull on it and here i'm gonna move the projector
over wait hold on is this speaker wire long enough here can you plug
well we have more anyway plug that in for me will you uh yeah sure oh sorry
brandon i'm gonna keep walking you guys total tangled
no no wait stop okay just stop oh god the pc uh yeah where are we gonna put
that here everything just goes here this is the projector output and then this
one needs to go to the tv cool feature and this has become more and more common
on receivers since the chromecast came out we've got a usb port back here but
it's not for firmware updates or anything like that it's just a little five volt power source
so if we have something like a powered optical HDMI cable
boop we can power it like that okay HDMI out
here into the game
yeah and put this is all it takes and now i got game
this boy goes here
for the uh 4k 120 input there we just need another
long one to go from the pc to the tv i don't think this is going to reach
Jake's brother we'll just move the tv i'm running i'm running out of cable
boys so this is input one whatever you
want oh i'm so thirsty i forgot my water bottle if only i had thought to shop on
lttstore.com i would have a water bottle and there
are so many different colors available editor like photoshop
yeah i was gonna say thanks editor for all your hard work all these different colors can you put this water bottle in
my hand what no i bet you you can why are you going to be like that keep that
out of here he's wasting your time which is wasting my money because he thinks
it's funny i have no idea what's going on i need the remotes i'm just going to
take your word for it i'm turning on the projector it's just working oh wow
you see i'm a drift god bro you ever played a projector on a black screen
like that before man once we actually have light control in here this is going
to be amazing and not a black wall great okay let's check the tv did we ever
actually turn the pc on that's a good question we should probably check that
computer didn't post i think it might just be confused about not having a
keyboard and mouse and stuff though oh you it up i did
i did okay well let's check the projector while you fix that i i just finished
giving you guys a tech tip about how these active cables are directional so
you have the display end plugged into the pc what i want is the
source end while he fixes that let's check the projector
hey it works look at that
i don't have a keyboard and mouse to like mess with it but it works well i can help
left more left a little bit more oh the tiniest bit left hey click i
don't know why it's not working oh there's like a an edge prompt
okay oh how did you do that escape right
right right right right right right right up up up up up up up up up up up click
it's working
am i doing it right all right let's go check the tv this is fantastic as
expected we're able to use the receivers multiple inputs and outputs and this is
actually a feature you might be able to find on a receiver for a couple of hundred bucks on craigslist even if it
doesn't support the latest standards or one you already have and we're able to
take whichever input we want and send it to whichever destination we want the
only hiccup we ran into is that we can only have one of our sources be 4k 120
hertz until better receivers come out and you buy
another one for six thousand dollars Jake gets a great deal on a formerly six
thousand dollar receiver i'm on to you but we still have one more problem to solve while moving HDMI over long
distances is no problem we could have that xbox in the basement and a tv up on
freaking the second story we could have a tv on the space station if we had a
long enough fiber he's not wrong what we can't move around easily is the wireless
xbox controller signal and this is kind of ironic because microsoft actually
makes a usb dongle that allows you to connect four xbox controllers to it that
you could extend with an optical usb cable to wherever you want
but the issue is that dongle is only pc
compatible so the last thing we need to test is can we actually reach the xbox
in the mechanical room from both the vr gaming space and from the theater room
you feel that what do i feel oh i think it might actually be working your tv has
to restart itself oh my to update the term
oh wow look at that do you want to throw it in a split screen gaming mode and i'll head over to the other room this
game doesn't have a split screen i'll go to the other one then the airforce 7
whatever had it now this is approximately where it end up and this
is pretty far from the xbox
through at least two walls a bmw m1 okay
sure it's great Jake it doesn't matter what car we're driving we're just trying
to find out if the controllers are gonna work properly it matters to me
he's taking him on the inside ah you pushed me off the track you ass oh this
thing drives like see you later oh you suck any
perceptible leg well i mean it's an xbox so yeah but well right but i mean other
than that yeah it seems fine it seems fine to me too compared to playing on a
racing wheel on a computer this is like this is dog
well okay that's not the point the point is it works the point is it works yes
for bonus points do you want to try this upstairs in the family room do we don't
have a long enough cable i think we can go straight to the family room i think
it's right there what time let's just go right there oh it's 5 30. which is time
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