Well, I guess what's interesting about it being a "bad" cable is that it does work perfectly fine at lower resolutions (i.e. pushing less bandwidth) and only has problems when you up the res...which is a weird failure mode if it's just a "bad" cable (so it made me think the cable was fine and it was just too long) but I don't know all the failure modes of HDMI so I guess I'll just process a return and see how the replacement fares.
Thanks guys! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 4:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] HDMI cable run length?? There are some 227 people on amazon who claim the cable works over 25' feet. The odds are he just got a bad one and just needs to replace it. On 10/14/2011 7:03 AM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >>
