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Hi Randy
I took a different approach. I have 2 monitors in my home office, and am adding a 55" smart TV in my office, another in the living room, and 4 more smart TV's in the next month or so.
I have 2 drops of Cat 6 1TB Ethernet at each TV location. One for the TV itself, and one either for Apple TV or chromecast or future use. The living room TV has a single HDMI. I should have got 2 but its not the end of the world. I'm using the AppleTV mostly to mirror my computer desktop but honestly I don't know if you need this or Chromecast if you have a smart TV.
The reason why I did it this way is so that each TV can display different content from different devices, or different content from the same device (dvr). For example, I can watch normal TV sent over HDMI from a DVR, while another TV watches other content via Ethernet from the same DVR. One TV can watch Netflix or other content with the smart TV's internal software, or from Apple TV (or Chromecast,etc).
I was going to go all wireless but the distance between devices made me wonder if it would work well enough, especially since I wanted to put the router in a closet basement. I didn't want to have any routers visible, etc, but I wanted to get the best possible speed.
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