Originally Posted by VirusKiller
I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting. I have to connect three 3.5mm female sockets to three RCA female sockets. Why on earth would I want to bring RJ45 and baluns into the mix?
I was observing on a slow mobile connection in the middle of nowhere so didn't read the whole thread in its entirety - the bits that I had read made me assume that you could not fit an extra set of digital outputs within the box so were going to use stereo jack plugs. My suggestion would have been to go RJ45 like speakerlink or a VGA connector as per smartlink sticking with a solution that is either a known entity or a possible future M standard.

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