Max distance HDMI 1080p DVD: The pros and cons of different HDMI cable standards and speeds

There are no settings to configure; just plug everything in and enjoy 1080p video and lossless audio wherever youwant it! The device is HDCP-compliant, so it is fully compatible with Blu-ray, HD-DVD, upconverted DVDs, and WindowsVista. It supports HDMI 1.3 audio bitstreaming of DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-MA), Dolby TrueHD, and Dolby Digital Plus (DD+).

ntBut as we see more and more wall-mounting of TVs and screens, digital signage and video walls becoming increasingly commonplace, the distance between source and display can quickly increase to significantly greater lengths. For instance, when running a cable from source to TV through the wall or ceiling, the length of the cable run can very quickly exceed long distances of 15-20 metres and, therefore, stretch beyond the recommended capabilities of hdmi tranmission.", "url" : " -group.com/how-to-av/videos-and-blogs/distance-of-hdmi-signal-travel", "publisher" : "@type" : "Organization", "name" : "CIE Team" }}HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), the combined HD video and audio signal standard is now the most commonly used cable interface for residential, home theater and commercial AV systems. Most commonly, a HDMI cable is used to simply connect a HD or 4K UHD Source (such as a BluRay player or your Sky TV Box) directly to an adjacent TV and so a normal 3 metre HDMI lead distance would easily cover that short distance from one device to the other on the TV stand.

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But as we see more and more wall-mounting of TVs and screens, digital signage and video walls becoming increasingly commonplace, the distance between source and display can quickly increase to significantly greater lengths. For instance, when running a cable from source to TV through the wall or ceiling, the length of the cable run can very quickly exceed long distances of 15-20 metres and, therefore, stretch beyond the recommended capabilities of hdmi tranmission.

HDMI Category 1 - also referred to as Standard HDMI cables will easily reach up to 5 metres without any problems and in ideal conditions will transmit over distances of up to 20 metres.But remember! - before running any longer cable distances through walls or ceilings, etc - test your system first! Use the exact Source-Cable-Display (plus any additional devices such as video switches, splitters etc) to confirm the system works befor installing.

For a signal that needs to travel further than 5 - 10 metres, a higher grade Category 2 (or High Speed) cable is recommended and will successfully achieve a signal distance of up to 15-20 metres.It is also designed to support transmission of 4k UHD, 3D and Deep Colour video signals.

It isn't really possible to give exact capabilites of each cable type, due to the wide range of factors that can affect signal transmission. Quality of cable and manufacture will affect signal capabilities, for example, as will the resolution (and, therefore, bandwidth) of the signal you're transmitting. Environmental factors can also have a significant affect on signal inteference and distance of transmission.

However, there are some general guidelines on HDMI cable distance limitations; the below diagram gives the comparative range of each cable standard, as well as distance capabilities of alternative Ethernet cable and over-IP transmission options such as video-over-Ethernet cable, HDBaseT and SDVoE (video-over-IP technology) which allow for HD, 4k UHD audio video signals to be transmitted over longer distances.

CIE have some great advice and information on repeaters as well as extending your transmission to distances of up to 100 metres, over Ethernet cable in our HowtoAV video - CLICK HERE TO WATCH NOW

Practical Issues and tips: Most CableTV set-top boxes use HDMI 1.0. The maximum output for this spec is 1080p at 60Hz with 8-bit color depth. Regardless of any display of higher version of HDMI you may have, the source will always limit the maximum bit-depth potential. An HDMI 1.0 device can still pull 8 channels of uncompressed PCM audio and as is perfectly fine for most users.

Abstract: To be plain, this update was a complete disaster. First of all, nobody asked for HDMI 1.3, except perhaps the companies behind the new high definition audio formats. Of course TrueHD and DTS-HD, the lossless audio codec formatsused on HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs could be decoded into uncompressed audio by the players. This makes 1.3 irrelevant for audio. What made HDMI 1.3 such as disaster was the increased bandwidth requirements - which hit an already suffering cable market with new requirements for digital signal transmission. Before HDMI 1.3, it was almost impossible to get a non-active copper HDMI cable to pass 1080p at distances greater than 50 feet. After HDMI 1.3, with the addition of Deep Color, that distance shrank to less than 20 feet, causing industry-wide failures on installed cabling systems.

Expensive active solutions started coming on-board to alleviate some of the problems within several months but even today there is a large amount of consumer confusion regarding cable certification and how far a signal will travel over copper cables. The spec also mandated that HDMI 1.3-compliant displays (sinks) which took advantage of high frequency content (Deep Color) must implement built-in cable equalization to help compensate for cable losses through copper cables. Thanks to several companies dedicated to certifying their products for specific distances, this issue is slowly becoming more manageable. The first product on the market with HDMI 1.3 was the PlayStation 3 gaming console.

Additionally, when we fed the J-Tech system a native 1080p/24 Blu-ray signal, it sent the signal to the TV as 1080p/60, and in doing so it created choppy motion that was unwatchable. You can easily get around this problem by setting your player to output 1080p/60 instead, but the Aries Home+ does not have this issue.

Standard is the most basic (and slowest) HDMI cable you can get. It has a bandwidth of 4.95Gbps, which is enough to send a 1080p signal to your TV, but not much more than that. Standard HDMI cables are rare to find in stores, but if you find an unmarked cable in a bucket somewhere or hooked up to a home theater system that hasn't been upgraded in five years, it might be Standard. These don't support 4K video at all.

All signals, digital and analog, degrade over long distances. How they degrade depends on the strength of the transmitter, the sensitivity of the receiver, and how much interference the carrier picks up in between. It's this last part where cable metrics begin to matter. The longer a cable you plan to run, the better you need to insulate it. Even then, at some point, it needs an active component to amplify or repeat the signal to get it all the way to its destination. As a general rule, that point is around 50 feet. You can get longer cables without active components, but they won't be able to handle the full 4K60 HDR signal.

If your components are three, six, or even 15 feet from each other, you should be fine with regular cables. If you're running long cables between, say, a projector and a closet full of home theater components across the house, you need to make sure your cables can handle that distance. For commercial and high-end home installations that use long runs, you should seriously consider an extender system that either amplifies the signal so it can travel further along the HDMI cable or sends the signal over Ethernet for most of the distance, switching back to a shorter HDMI cable once you run the easier-to-manage Ethernet through your walls or ceiling.

To test these cables, we connected each one to a Murideo SIX-G signal generator(Opens in a new window) and a TV capable of displaying 4K and HDR 10 content. The Murideo can output test signals at a variety of resolutions, frame rates, and color depths, so we could confirm whether each cable could actually carry those types of signal. We displayed a full-color test pattern at 1080p60, 4K24 both with and without HDR, 4K60 both with and without HDR, and 4K60 with HDR and 4:4:4 uncompressed color sampling. Although we used seven different signal types, we found no change in signal fidelity between non-HDR and HDR signals at different color depths and sampling rates for each resolution and frame rate combination. The chart here has been truncated to reflect that.

To our considerable surprise, every cable we tested worked with every test signal, with two exceptions. The Monoprice 75-foot Commercial Series Standard Speed HDMI Cable could carry a 4K24 signal both with and without HDR, but once we moved up to 4K60, the signal failed. The Zosi HDMI cable (a brand that primarily sells home security cameras) we ordered from Amazon, which specifically said on the product page it's only intended for up to 1080p, also failed when we tried to send a 4K60 HDR signal with 4:4:4 color sampling through it. But even then, the cable managed to handle a 4K60 HDR signal with compressed colors well enough; it was only when we bumped up the color sampling that the screen flickered and blacked out.

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