There is no real cable length specification, but I agree with others, likely a cable issue. The longer the run, higher quality cabling is required. I bought a 50ft length of cheap cable over ebay and had video/audio sync issues from my computer to my receiver. Bit the bullet and bought higher quality cable (Monster... still over ebay) and it works fine now. I've never used Bluerigger but used many $3 cables for short runs without any problems either.
-Rich -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bino Gopal Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 5:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] HDMI cable run length?? 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
