HDMI Baluns with IR control

[bored-of-coding]

I'm looking for HDMI Cat 5/6 baluns that also do the IR signal .. I can only find two, the cheap(er) one seems to have a really obtrusive IR sender / receiver, but the other is twice the price ..
Has anyone any experience of these, or any recommendations?
thanks

http://www.mustavit.co.uk/p96225/HDMI_(1080p)_Cat5...

http://www.lektropacks.co.uk/view_product_standard...

[Plotloss]

Generally speaking, HDMI blauns are VERY cable dependant.

If you've already terminated your horizontal cabling with RJ45 sockets it will be touch and go whether they work.

[bored-of-coding]

what should they be terminated with? I've got cat5 cable installed, but I could change the plugs I guess ..

[Plotloss]

Straight to plugs, not via sockets.

[bored-of-coding]

got you .. I should have read your post properly!

[Tuna]

Plotloss said:

Generally speaking, HDMI blauns are VERY cable dependant.

If you've already terminated your horizontal cabling with RJ45 sockets it will be touch and go whether they work.

Useful information, though as our house is flood wired with cat5 (no plates on yet!), I can't see myself leaving flying leads at every outlet.

Is the state of the art getting better with respect to HDMI transmission, or is this going to be the way things remain for some time?

[LocoBlade]

There's also the Marmitek Megaview 61 which is about £100, not sure what the IR receiver is like for that model.

[bored-of-coding]

lektropack assure me you can use a switch .. but if it doesn't work I guess they'll just tell me my wires are crap

[LocoBlade]

They don't transmit the data by IP so you certainly won't be able to put them through a network switch, it would need to be a direct cable connection from one end to the other.

Edited by LocoBlade on Wednesday 2nd December 21:36

[Plotloss]

Tuna said:

Plotloss said:

Generally speaking, HDMI blauns are VERY cable dependant.

If you've already terminated your horizontal cabling with RJ45 sockets it will be touch and go whether they work.

Useful information, though as our house is flood wired with cat5 (no plates on yet!), I can't see myself leaving flying leads at every outlet.

Is the state of the art getting better with respect to HDMI transmission, or is this going to be the way things remain for some time?

Its only HDMI that is like this, so you can terminate everything else with sockets.

There are however solutions in the marketplace that can use one Cat5 and aren't termination dependant, one using a clever idea and the other utilising IP, which can be sent through a switch, albeit a managed switch.

Edited by Plotloss on Wednesday 2nd December 21:29

[bored-of-coding]

LocoBlade said:

They don't transmit the data by IP so you certainly won't be able to put them through a network switch, it would need to be a direct cable connection from one end to the other.

Edited by LocoBlade on Wednesday 2nd December 21:36

they say different ?

Lektropacks said:

Lektropacks Technical Support wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for your enquiry.

DDC stands for display data channel, it is necessary to use 2 CAT6 cables for the product to work. It can work through a switch.

Edited by bored-of-coding on Thursday 3rd December 09:54

[Plotloss]

I suspect they mean a HDMI Switch rather than a Network Switch...

[bored-of-coding]

good point, I'll check

[ecuboss]

Plotloss said:

Generally speaking, HDMI blauns are VERY cable dependant.

If you've already terminated your horizontal cabling with RJ45 sockets it will be touch and go whether they work.

Indeed they are - I can just about run 720p through cat5e over 15M - 1080p just wont sync - of course it was too late by time I had plastered the walls, so I ended having to run a full hdmi lead round.
Funnily enough I also just hanged the wires straight out of the sockets, because I could tell that putting face plates on would result in no picture. If you can, run HDMI leads and avoid baluns - or use good quality cat6 or better - forget cat5 tbh.