A) A common home theater application is distributed audio and video, or sending a single source to multiple destinations. Typically, this will be the audio and video from a DVD player or VCR sent to multiple televisions located throughout the house. In such applications, the Intelix AVDA-8 or VGADA-2 is typically used as distribution hub.

B) Another common home theater application is routing audio and video from a VCR, DVD player, or satellite to a remote projector or plasma. Traditionally, this could become an expensive, cumbersome task if the AV cables were not already installed--especially when sending the high resolution signals associated with HDTV and DVI. However, baluns allow you to transmit audio and video--including hi-definition--over a single, inexpensive Cat 5 cable that is easy to run or hide.

C) Audio transmission also frequently factors into home theater applications. In many cases, the audio is disassociated from the video. In other words, a DVD player source transmitting both audio and video will send audio to a receive and video to a monitor, such as a plasma. The beauty of baluns is that a single Cat 5 cable typically supports both the audio and video signals.