Plug/connector sizes between TV and other apparatuses

[mointainwalker]

Hi

I'm nearing the end of a house conversion and want to put some conduit in place for later routing of cables for TV/DVD and other bits.

What are the largest plugs I am likely to need to feed through, so I can choose right size conduit now ?

I'm not likely to be choosing any unusual equipment if that's an issue.

Thanks.

 

[ChrisFrost]

HDMI has pretty much become the connector of choice for AV. Put in a bigger conduit than that though; you might need to pull on through a conduit that already has cables installed.

 

[joinerjohn]

Probably the largest plug would be the scart plug (Improbably invented a hundred years ago by that great Georgian engineer Gerald Scart)

 

[ilikewatchingtv]

Hi,

I've recently done this myself, and have managed to run 2 x HDMI cables and a red/white/yellow Wii component cable through 30mm flexible conduit. In order to do this I bought HDMI cables where the (metal) plug mouldings could easily be removed in order to minimise the plug size when pulling them through. Pulling Scart plug/s through would require a huge conduit, but if you're confident, it would be easy enough to remove a Scart plug and reattach it when you've pulled the cable through.

I would imagine that most people would want some of the following connections for their TV:

Enough HDMI cables to support Sky/Cable TV/Blu-Ray/DVD/Games console/s etc.
Enough Scart cables to support Sky/Cable TV/ DVD/VCR/Games console/s etc.
Red/White/Yellow component cable for DVD/Wii etc.
Co-axial cable/s for TV/DTV/Satellite (If TV has freesat capability inbuilt)
Audio cables for surround sound etc.
Power cable for TV (If power not fed from a devoted socket behind TV, though probably not a great idea to run power cable in the same conduit as signal cables anyway)

I guess if you wanted lots of HDMI/Scart cables, then you could run 1 cable through conduit for each, with a splitter device near the source appliances, but not sure how good these are.

Hope this helps.

 

[mointainwalker]

Thanks all. time to select the correct bit