My guess is cable is too long to handle the bandwidth. From what I read it gets very expensive to do > 15ft and still have a class 2.
Check out blue jeans cables, they have a great writeup on what & why. On Oct 14, 2011 2:15 AM, "Bino Gopal" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > >
