[mythtv-users] HDMI-to-CAT5 Converter

Jason Sullivan jason0x21 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 16:56:27 UTC 2008


On Feb 4, 2008 11:38 AM, Marc Sherman <msherman at projectile.ca> wrote:
> Jason Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > Possibly, but it's easier (for me, at least) to drill a hole that I
> > can pass a Cat6e cable and run that sort of thing behind the walls
> > than it is to pull a DVI cable/connector through the wall (what would
> > that be, a 2" hole?).   Some folks even have Cat6e already in the
> > wall.
>
> For $500, run that Cat5, but put a new myth frontend at the end instead
> of these boxes.
>

Now that would be a neat trick.  I've got a projector that I'm
driving, which means that adding another F/E doesn't actually solve
the "long cable run" problem, unless there's a way to sync up two
front ends so that one does the video and the other does the audio.

-- 
Jason Sullivan
jason0x21 at gmail.com


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