Electrical planning - sockets

and IPTV is still so much in its infancy that I don’t even want to talk about it anymore

at the latest when Sky activates its pairing on all cards, it will become commercially viable

I am well aware of the techniques, but first of all, fewer and fewer people want radiation sources in their homes. Then it is suitable for low voltage - there are approaches for electric cars, but it's all still in its infancy.

And today and certainly for the next years and decades, conventional wiring will be done on a large scale. But if you don't need it, that's fine

Tomorrow, classical wiring will still be done. That’s true. Everything else is speculation

You can solve a lot via radio, but those are more makeshift solutions. In new buildings, you should rather lay cables - interference, electrosmog, resource overload are just keywords.

That has little to do with stagnation or even stupidity...

at the latest when sky activates its pairing on all cards it will become commercial

So far, fortunately, it has passed me by - I have been successfully blocking it so far. If it no longer works, cancellation is imminent...

I have coaxial cables everywhere, but my HDD receiver in the living room also streams over the network to and from all kinds of devices (e.g., reads/writes to NAS or FTP, streams live/recordings to the tablet, etc.). In principle, network/WLAN in all rooms would have been sufficient. However, you then become quite dependent on one device (that’s why I initially laid coaxial cables everywhere; you never know how you might want to do it later). Otherwise, I am not a fan of wireless. Despite advanced technology, the range/transmission decreases significantly with solid construction when you are a bit farther away. It usually suffices for surfing, but if you want a lot (e.g., also retrieve data from a NAS or make a backup via LAN), WLAN is noticeably slower and more prone to errors than a wired network.

To add something on the topic of sockets. We currently live in a rental apartment with 3 sockets per room, an old building. Strangely, it has never bothered us. We have also never thought about wanting more sockets,... because we simply don’t need that many.

First of all, you can see (which I think is good): how individual the perception of all these topics is.

Great attitude from you: you know what you want, what you need, and you implement it! Perfect, because then it fits for you.

In the rental apartment, I would have been happy to have 3 sockets per room at the time. I was also happy when I finally took several boxes of these extension strips to the recycling center. They looked at me there like I was a Teletubby.

You plan something like that for yourself and your house.
Additional electrical work is expensive, I have learned that too........(but I wanted more here because my extension cord allergy has become so pronounced...lol).

Best regards
Thorsten

PS:
WLAN/LAN: In places I considered sensible (office, TV/living room) I have LAN. The WLAN only manages a maximum of 35 MBit/s here, from the cable comes 98 MBit/s (which is certainly not detrimental to TV enjoyment...).