Recently upgraded the projector in my theater room. It's not a fully 4K model, but it's one of those faux 4k units. Anyway, the previous projector had no issue playing HD content over a 60 foot run of good quality standard HDMI cable.
Why is it so long, you ask? Well, the geniuses that built the house and wired the speakers put the speaker wires out in the front of the room, under where you'd mount the screen as opposed to in a closet or in the back of the room. They did run an ethernet cable, to where the projector should be mounted. For a while, I was using a HDMI/ethernet kit with poor results. Ended up just buying a solid HDMI cable and running the damn thing along the wall and up to the projector. House was also built in about 2006, and instead of smurf tubing everything, I think the actually ran the wired through the boards and stapled them. I suspect this because previous fishing attempts were wildly unsuccessful.
Moving on.
So now, with the new projector, I'm getting periodic errors when "4k" or HDR is being used. I'm guessing this is a bandwidth problem and it's just sending too much info too great a distance for the standard (if quality) HDMI cable I had previously been using. It looks fantastic when it's working, but the random "searching for 4k source" error is frustrating me.
Enter fiber optic HDMI. Before I shell out $150 for one of these things, I wanted to ask if anyone here had any experience with these, or if I should be looking in a different direction.
Why is it so long, you ask? Well, the geniuses that built the house and wired the speakers put the speaker wires out in the front of the room, under where you'd mount the screen as opposed to in a closet or in the back of the room. They did run an ethernet cable, to where the projector should be mounted. For a while, I was using a HDMI/ethernet kit with poor results. Ended up just buying a solid HDMI cable and running the damn thing along the wall and up to the projector. House was also built in about 2006, and instead of smurf tubing everything, I think the actually ran the wired through the boards and stapled them. I suspect this because previous fishing attempts were wildly unsuccessful.
Moving on.
So now, with the new projector, I'm getting periodic errors when "4k" or HDR is being used. I'm guessing this is a bandwidth problem and it's just sending too much info too great a distance for the standard (if quality) HDMI cable I had previously been using. It looks fantastic when it's working, but the random "searching for 4k source" error is frustrating me.
Enter fiber optic HDMI. Before I shell out $150 for one of these things, I wanted to ask if anyone here had any experience with these, or if I should be looking in a different direction.