HDMI extender recommendations

[Mark Valenzuela]

I’m looking for a reliable HDMI extender to send video from QLab over a 250’ Cat5e cable. Doesn’t need to be 4k or have any other features. (I’d be thrilled to find one that uses an ethercon connector, but I don’t see any of those.) 

Amazon is awash with them, ranging from $16 to a couple hundred. Which ones are you all using and recommending? 

Thanks,

Mark

[Sam Kusnetz]

On May 20, 2024 at 10:03:16 AM, Mark Valenzuela <m.z...@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m looking for a reliable HDMI extender to send video from QLab over a 250’ Cat5e cable. Doesn’t need to be 4k or have any other features. (I’d be thrilled to find one that uses an ethercon connector, but I don’t see any of those.) 

I have used HDbaseT extenders from Altona in the $300-$500 per pair range and gotten good results.

Only one data point, but that’s what I’ve got.

sk

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[Jason Dino]

AV Pro Edge has some great options. Reach out directly if you have any questions. 

Jason 

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[Henri Chalem]

I used this one no expensive.

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[Mark Valenzuela]

Thanks for the replies!

The AVPro Edge and Atlona options that I can find readily available look great, but the cheapest of the two starts at over $400 USD. Any recommendations that would be readily available to purchase in the US online that might hover in the $200 range? 

And should I only be considering extenders that use HDbaseT? 

[Sam Kusnetz]

At $200 I would be worried about reliability.

Gefen is a reputable manufacturer that’s sort of no-frills, so basically you can use the price of a Gefen extender as a low water mark.

Monoprice makes an HDMI extender for 99 bucks. Do we trust it? I don’t! But maybe it will last as long as you need it to?

If you can use SDI instead of Cat 5e, look at Blackmagic Design’s micro converters. Very reliable, very petite, about as cheap as you can trust. But they are SDI only, which means broadcast resolution only.

-sk

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[sftechguy]

I've used HDMI extenders from SewellDirect.com with good results. The only caveat is that an interruption in the signal at the transmitter side causes the receiver side to output an error message.  They may have fixed this in more recent revisions.

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[Ron Ho]

Did you think of using wireless HDMI? Works pretty good.

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[Sam Kusnetz]

On May 20, 2024 at 11:42:12 PM, Ron Ho <hor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Did you think of using wireless HDMI? Works pretty good.

Some wireless HDMI works well, some doesn’t. All wireless HDMI, even at the very highest end of the price range, has latency and potential for interference that is much greater than using a wire.

I enthusiastically encourage only using wireless when you absolutely need it.

For wireless video, I like the Teradek Bolt. It’s only somewhat expensive, easy to use, and quite reliable.

Sam  

[matthew...@gmail.com]

I use the  StarTech ST121HDBTDK in all of my projection projects where the projector isn't next to the computer. It's nice, small, and portable product which has been reliable for me for the last 5 years or so. Whats nice is that if your projector can use HDbaseT as an input, you don't have to use the extenders receiver, you can just plug in the cat5e cable and it works. For the extender base and remote, its a little pricey in the mid $300s. But if the projector can take a HDBaseT signal, they sell just the transmitter base for ~$170. 

Matt Gist

[rosario calvagna]

Hi, I would try one of these

https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ey1or9v

Very stable connection. Maybe a little fragile

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