HDMI must run more than 15 meters and stutters
Above 5 to 10 meters passive HDMI starts losing signal. For 15 meters and more you need active solutions, HDBaseT over Cat6, fiber HDMI, or SDI conversion.
Try this first
- 1Measure the actual cable route, not line of sight, ceilings and conduits add length quickly.
- 2For 15 to 70 meters, an HDBaseT extender over Cat6 or Cat6a is common, fits in one Cat6 run.
- 3Above 70 meters, or at high resolution, fiber HDMI or SDI conversion works better.
- 4Watch EDID handshake, long runs sometimes need an EDID emulator otherwise the source gets no signal.
- 5For 4K at 60Hz check the extender against that spec, not every HDBaseT unit reliably handles 4K over distance.
- 6Document which extender is on which run, that saves diagnosis time during an incident.
When to bring us in
For wide signal distribution with many runs, an AV-over-IP architecture is sometimes cheaper than many extenders. Vectel can model both.
See also
- Remote people feel left out in hybrid meetings.Parity is not luck. Camera, mic and facilitation must treat remote attendees equally.
- Camera does not capture everyone around the table.Focal length, placement and auto-framing decide whether the whole table is visible.
- We want to show both the whiteboard and the people.A content camera on the board, a people camera on the table. Two streams.
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