SkyHD Box HD multifeed

slave1

Okay, here's how she lies

SkyHD box in Living room, HDMI feed to TV in Living room
RF out via splitter to Kitchen and Bedroom, both rooms with magic eyes

New HD TV on the way for Bedroom

Plan is to leave all above as is, except hook up new TV via the Component out on the SkyHD box via 15M (long run unfortunately) with Audio L+R 15M run also, leaving existing RF feed to retain magic eye remote functionaly.

Anyone out there already done this?
Any issues, specifically the HD box component strength over a 15M run

TIA

bigbob

Would a 15m hdmi cable (& hdmi splitter in living room) be a better option?

slave1

hmdi is more sensitive than component AFAIK and a long run - apart from a splitter - may also require a "repeater" thingy, v. expensive compared to component run
would give the best quality but at a serious premium

Tony

I'd go with a hdmi router as I have used this myself, you may find that only one output will work at any one time.

slave1

"should" be okay on both outputs working at the same time
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=655715
and
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=654643

would you have a ballpark figure on a HDMI router and 15M HDMI lead Tony?

Tony

Sorry I don't stock these at present

mossym

for teh cable use www.bluejeanscable.com. american based, but excellent prices for top notch cable, which it will have to be for a hdmi run of 15m . i have a 12m hdmi from these guys running for my projector and it will do 1080p no problem. i think all their cables are guaranteed to do 1080p.

Tony

interesting, he has cables up to 100 FT

mossym

maybe the guarantee to 1080p doesn't cover the whole range then, would be surprised if a cable could do 1080p at 100ft without equalization...

mossym

actually, from the webpage

The acid test of any HDMI cable is its ability to convey signal over distance, and here the Series-1 Bonded-Pair cable excels; in our in-use testing, we have run 1080p/60 video 125 feet without degradation.


so there!!

Tony

Yes thats what I found interesting

mossym

i can vouch for the quality of these guys cables as well, have quite a few of them at home, my speaker cable, sub cable, hdmi and component cables(12m as well) are all from them, they are top quality, discovered them when i was in living in the usa and have had no problems ordering stuff since i moved back here, my last purchase, a 2m sub cable was ordered on the 8th of november and delivered on the 15th

Tony

Good find thanks for the info

slave1

well for me it has to be component as I have the HDMI out on the SkyHD box occupied and I'm not going to invest in a HDMI splitter and long splitter lead, just too much bucks

thinking of something along the lines of this guy from ebay, about a ton


or from linkage above
Belden 1694A Component Video Cables, £62.20 about €90
http://www.bluejeanscable.co.uk/store/component/index.htm

or £65 ex P+P
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/15m-component-video-cable-37535.html

really would like to get these cable costs down, anyone with any purchasing history of component leads that can take 1080i over 15M???

slave1

@ mossym, when you ordered off that crowd did you use their UK site or US site and have you got caught for any duties/vat with delivery?

mossym

i used the uk site, but from what i have seen they ship everything from the us. when i bought my 12m hidmi and 12m component though i had them shipped to a friend in the usa and he sent them onto me through work so no chance of customs. my speaker cable sailed through, but that wasn't 90 euros worh.

i can tell you the component cables will do 1080p over 12m..so should have no issues with 1080i over 15, if i recall correctly 1080i takes less bandwith than 720p