Another A/V question...

[rivermobster]

HDMI

How long of a cable can you run?

(I saw some 50' cables at Costco)

Will spliters actually work?

(I've seen some powered spliters on Amazon)

What I want to do is have mulitple TV's in the house, be showing the same signal.

Thanks!

 

[ultra26shadow]

You can run as long as you want just make sure your splitter is powered.

 

[rivermobster]

Would something like this be ok?

Amazon.com: ViewHD 2 Port HDMI 1x2 Powered Splitter Ver 1.3 Certified for Full HD 1080P with Deep Color & HD Audio and Max Bandwidth of 10.2Gbps: Electronics@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41OBYe0aWlL.@@AMEPARAM@@41OBYe0aWlL

 

[RadMan]

I run a 50-ft hdmi and tested it against a short one, same picture, no powered splitter. Check your price against monoprice.com for those long cables and probably powered splitters too.

 

[ultra26shadow]

:thumbsup that should work if not too pricey check this one out as well http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10113&cs_id=1011301&p_id=4921&seq=1&format=2

 

[rivermobster]

Thanks all!

 

[rivermobster]

This might be an even better idea...

Amazon.com: Mediabridge - HDMI Extender over Cat5e or Cat6 Cables - Up To 60 Meters (196 Feet) - Cat5e/6 and HDMI Cables NOT Included: Electronics@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415cXg76gML.@@AMEPARAM@@415cXg76gML

 

[pronstar]

You shouldn't get degradation.
It's a digital signal, so it *should* be either perfect...or nothing at all.

 

[jarrettolson]

that mono price site has good prices. I bought from here, at the time their prices were a little less but I was very impressed with the quality (awg) of the cabling.

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/hdmi-cables/hdmi-cable.htm

 

[TPC]

Where is the market going with Blue ray?
Is it the way to roll,, or another Betamax?

 

[DaveH]

my suggestion would be to forget HDMI if you want to run a bunch of monitors.

go with componet video. cheaper, easier and you can run it further. True, its not a digital format, but if you are just looking to distribute video then utmost hi-def quality is not the single most important issue.

plus all those HDMI active splitters have issues and the monitors will not be perfectly synched.

you can run componet from standard rg-59 or rg-6 coax cheaply and trust me it works GREAT.

 

[rivermobster]

my suggestion would be to forget HDMI if you want to run a bunch of monitors.

go with componet video. cheaper, easier and you can run it further. True, its not a digital format, but if you are just looking to distribute video then utmost hi-def quality is not the single most important issue.

plus all those HDMI active splitters have issues and the monitors will not be perfectly synched.

you can run componet from standard rg-59 or rg-6 coax cheaply and trust me it works GREAT.

Well...

What i wanna do is split the signal from my FIOS DVR, to all the differernt TV's in my house. I only have 2 at this point I wanna run to, the one next to it in the living room, and on in my bed room at the other end of the house.

I was think'n the HDMI would be the easiest way to do it, since both the hi-def video and audio singnals are all in one cable.

Your thoughts?

 

[paradise]

I use this in my house: http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10110&cs_id=1011002&p_id=5704&seq=1&format=2

We have four inputs running into it (DVR, PS3, HTPC, IPOD Dock) and it outputs to two receivers ('living room + outside' and 'bedroom + whole house'). Then, from the receivers, video is sent to the TVs and audio is sent to the in ceiling speakers. What's nice about a matrix is you can have any input on any output at any time, so I can have both receivers on the IPod dock for a party, or I can play PS3 in the living room while the wifey watches TV(DVR) in the bedroom.

Everything sits in a closet out of sight in the middle of the house and we use two harmony remotes (one in the B/R one in the L/R) to control it all.

It works pretty well, but on the 50' run to my bedroom over HDMI, I did notice a little bit of degradation of signal... I think running HDMI over CAT 5 would have solved that problem though.
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[maxwedge]

If possible use RG-6 instead of RG-59, it has a fatter conductor and there should be less signal degradation of high frequency signals from skin effect.

 

[DaveH]

If possible use RG-6 instead of RG-59, it has a fatter conductor and there should be less signal degradation of high frequency signals from skin effect.
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for wide-band "catv" this is absolutley true.

for VIDEO, rg59 is fine. in fact, for VIDEO, copper shield 59 is even better. video is a very low frequency/bandwidth signal

 

[Rexone]

It is hard to beat monoprice for cables. When I recently moved my shop I bought a bunch of Cat 6 stuff that I ran for computers as well as phone system. A box I could hardly lift full of cables was only 200 and some bucks.

 

[rivermobster]

Ok so...

Can HDMI, running thru cat5, to thru a switch as well??

I'm gonna put in a 16 port switch (hooked up to one port of my router) and put drops in every room.

Would I be able to plug the HDMI into any drop, and have it come out at any other drop I have??

:headscratch: