Thanks for all of your contributions! I learned some things.
Some notes: - I wasn't sure about max HDMI cable length before; then I found this article at PC Mag: https://www.pcmag.com/news/slaying-the-cable-monster-what-you-need-to-know-a... - I was in fact thinking of HDMI-over-twisted-pair rather than HDMI-over-Ethernet - In hindsight, I don't really want to have to plug in more powered devices to accomplish my goal and for <= 50' probably passive cable is the way to go - Curse you, Adam, for reminding me about Princess Auto; now there are suddenly 5 things on my shopping list - Oh well - my birthday is coming up - Princess Auto's 50' HDMI cable is rated for HDMI 2.0, which should be more than good enough for my need
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 3:40 PM Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
On 2023-03-09 Adam Thompson wrote:
I remember a thread about HDMI length limits here in the distant past; I think Trevor has successfully run 1080p over 50' cables but possibly with not quite 100% reliability?
Adam remembers correctly: I did many installs with DVI over 50' cables at "normal" rez's (like anything under 2550x1440). And a couple of DVI-HDMI cables (they exist) at 50' too. Since DVI/HDMI is almost the same thing signal-wise, I would expect HDMI/HDMI at 50' to be fine too. Never tried 100'.
Since a 50' HDMI cable is fairly cheap compared to an active HDMI/ethernet repeater, start with the cable. Heck, maybe even 100' will work, let us know!
If you have to go the active repeater route, I would expect everything designed for that purpose will work perfectly fine. There will be a tiny delay, though, with all those conversions (few ms?). Might be enough to bother a hardcore gamer.
(You think stringing HDMI through walls is tough, try DVI!!) _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.ca https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable