You're thinking a bit simplistically there. It's not that is a "bad"
cable per se, but somehow it isn't up to par, somehow out of spec...it
could be some hidden construction detail that you can't see but that
shows its hand when you send more data along the cable. All those other
people found theirs worked fine, but yours only works for when you send
less data. That's exactly the failure mode one would expect barring an
obvious flaw. It's a $7 cable and easy replace until you get one that
works.
On 10/14/2011 1:03 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
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
