Hey guys, so apparently things aren't as simple as I thought.
I have a pretty recent Acer laptop with an HDMI out.so I decided to connect it to my Samsung DLP TV which has 3 HDMI inputs. I've done it before with a 6' HDMI Amazon Basics cable and that worked fine but my laptop is a ways away and I wanted a longer cable so I wouldn't have to move it if I wanted to watch something on the TV, so I got 25' Bluerigger HDMI cable from Amazon which had great reviews (4.5 stars) and thought it would work fine. Well as it turns out that didn't go so well; it auto-detected the TV at 1920x1080 resolution but it was all messed up and had white static over the whole screen. So I stepped down and found out that it works at resolutions of 1280x720 or lower (800x600 works too). So is this an issue with the length of the cable run and needing amplification to be able to send the signal properly over that distance? I thought I'd read that HDMI could go up to 50' but apparently not! Just wondering if anyone has run into this issue with HDMI and if I might be missing something obvious.thanks guys! BINO
