...You pretty much nailed it on the head though. Lets say football games during a cookout. Could be some nite time movie parties or something like that. I agree with the coax, not even my 3rd option to transmit video signal. Unless we could get him to call the satellit company, get another reciever, and run THAT coax to the counter and then lpug that in the sat box, and come out to a projector with whatever we want. But then again, by te tme you get all that done and paid for we might as well have just bout a TV.
Right now that sounds like a much more viable way to go. It will definitely give more flexibility for options for the entire project. Based on this information, the projector I found and mentioned in the other thread definitely isn't going to work.
It being outside, it's hard to sell him on a TV due to the weather and what not, and with the construction mostly finished we have just about zero options to get some kind of weatherproof cabiet built. My freind that I do this with is a better salesman than I am so hopefully he can communicate our concerns, and offer some creative solutions.
Also, a retractable screen can develop wave problems unless its a tab tensioned screen. Seeing that this will be outside and will draw moisture (dew, humidity, as well as other factors) the screen could get pretty wavy quick. This is doable, but sit down with him and explain the potential problems and that he is going to have to make some compromises, such as having an additional satellite box installed. That may be a pain, but in the end it opens up things for a better solution.
Even so, is there a length limitation on component, or even HDMI? I'm sure there has to be.
HDMI wouldn't work anyway, becaus eI'm posotive that his receiver, nor his TV has HDMI.
He has an idea in his head on what he wants, but he's not educated enuf to really understand the challenges. If I had my way, I'd get him a nice receiver, multi zones, and at least go with component.
Either way it's not gonna be easy. But I'm always up for a challenge.
You can get repeaters for HDMI cables, so you can get some pretty long runs. Definitely save yourself (and your buddy) some money and check out
Monoprice or
RiteAV for your cables. I bought a bunch of HDMI cables and Toslink cables from RiteAV and had no problems with them at all.