HDMI Question

[speedrcr78]

I have a second 722 upstairs that I dont use very often. I would like to run an HDMI cable from that reciever to a HD TV downstairs that is currently connected to the TV SD port of a 622 that I have downstairs. The approximate length between the 722 upstairs and the 622 downstairs is no more than 150'. I have seen products that will put the signal over cat 5 or 6 I believe. Is this a reliable and good way of trnasmitting the signal?? I used to do Phone/Network cable installation and I have a pretty good knowledge of running and terminating cable. Any help or website references would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Greg

 

[TNGTony]

131FT HDMI to HDMI 24AWG CL2 Rated cable w/ built-in Equalizer (Gold Plated)
HDMI cables, DVI cables, HDMI wall plates and HDMI switches.

 

[8bitbytes]

You might want to get two 75 foot 22AWG cables from Monoprice and put an HDMI amplifier in the middle. That's a loooooong way for HDMI. You could get an HDMI over fiber cable but that would be several hundred dollars easily. Component on the other hand is fine at that distance.

 

[iwannarock1]

Why not just switch the 2 receivers? Then you'll have the bigger hard drive connected to the TV you use the most??

Also......probably cheaper to buy an external hard drive and increase your storage space than to get a 150 foot HDMI cable, and lose picture quality over that long run anyways

 

[Skibum]

Run component before HDMI at that distance... You likely really won't notice any difference. Anything over 35' or so in HDMI will need amplification and all that.

 

[Andrewwski]

Use component.

Re: Cat 5. You can use a balun on each end of a cat 5 run to send component through one Cat 5 (UTP).

There are HDMI baluns also but they require 2 cat 5's, one must be shielded.

Just use component, either through a few RG59's with compression fittings or cat 5 with baluns, the latter being more expensive.

 

[whatchel1]

Source

Use component.

Re: Cat 5. You can use a balun on each end of a cat 5 run to send component through one Cat 5 (UTP).

There are HDMI baluns also but they require 2 cat 5's, one must be shielded.

Just use component, either through a few RG59's with compression fittings or cat 5 with baluns, the latter being more expensive.

Can you give sources for the Cat 5 baluns. I like cat 6 better than 5.

 

[haertig]

That's quite a far distance for HDMI from what I've read. You might be be able to get it to work, but maybe not. It would cost a lot.

You might want to check out a SlingBoxSolo (or SlingBoxPro) + cat5 + SlingCatcher setup. The SlingCatcher is not available yet, but I think it's coming pretty soon. The connections allow HD, but since the SlingCatcher is not out yet there are no reviews of the quality of that HD.

Sling Media - SlingPlayer for TV
Sling Media - Connections
Sling Media - Slingbox SOLO Connections
Sling Media - Slingbox PRO Connections

 

[Andrewwski]

Can you give sources for the Cat 5 baluns. I like cat 6 better than 5.

One of these will do the trick. There's many other brands, such as Gefen, out there too.

MuxLab VideoEase - VGA Balun

Cat 5, cat 6, whatever. It all works fine. I use cat 5.

 

[kwindrem]

131FT HDMI to HDMI 24AWG CL2 Rated cable w/ built-in Equalizer (Gold Plated)
HDMI cables, DVI cables, HDMI wall plates and HDMI switches.

Blue Jeans Cable sells an HDMI cable they've developed in partnership with Belden. They say it works at 125' for 1080p60 which is twice the bandwidth of 1080i. Don't know if you'd get 250' at 1080i but 150' should work fine. It's their Series-1.

HDMI Cables from Blue Jeans Cable

It's pretty expensive and they only list lengths to 100' so you'd probably need a custom.

You could join two 75' lengths and there are active repeaters that might help if you run into trouble.

There are also fiber solutions for long runs.

Or like others have said, run analog component. RG-6 would be good for those long runs. Terminate with F connectors and adapt to RCA.