Hdmi long cable
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Glordit
Neo Zeon
Ellies. About ~R500, sadly you won't get any longer than 10m
apparently you'll need a repeater of sorts. Unless your TV has a RJ45 plug.
Glordit
Neo Zeon
I used to have a 10m HDMI from my PC to the TV on the other side of the room, problem is what people would trip over it quite often as it just reached the TV.
Easiest option.
Get a Raspberry Pi, use it with RaspBMC set it up as a HTPC and just stream media across a network to it. Will cost about R700 for the Pi, HDMI cable and a SD Card. Then the only cables you'll be worrying about is the network cable, which is easier to work with.
Only problem I have found with the Pi is that it is not powerful enough to play 10 bit encoded X264, although that won't be a problem it is mostly used by some anime fansub encoders.
Easiest option.
Get a Raspberry Pi, use it with RaspBMC set it up as a HTPC and just stream media across a network to it. Will cost about R700 for the Pi, HDMI cable and a SD Card. Then the only cables you'll be worrying about is the network cable, which is easier to work with.
Only problem I have found with the Pi is that it is not powerful enough to play 10 bit encoded X264, although that won't be a problem it is mostly used by some anime fansub encoders.
Ike_009
Assassin of Accountants
Don't an HDMI cable longer than 10m, you will suffer from image loss since the cable isn't designed for long distances. Either run a cat6 cable or keep your length to 10m and if you do go for a 10m HDMI cable then don't go cheap as you will suffer signal loss then.
Ichigo
New member
Whats the best HDMI cable 1.3, 1.4 or higher for 3d?
reactor_sa
New member
3D requires 1.4 or higher
Ichigo
New member
Oh ok so my 1.4 one is alright then.
Dunno about cheap but wireless might be a option, don't really know where to buy these local
but im sure my uncle google should be able to assist
HDMI Wireless 1080P HD AV Video Transmitter & Receiver