HDMI CAT-5 Extreme from ComputerCableStore™. The
HDMI CAT-5 Extreme extends your
HDTV display up to 200 feet away from your HDTV source using two CAT-5 cables. It is equipped with HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) connectors and is capable of supporting
DVI (digital visual interface) equipment when used with a HDMI to DVI Adapter, providing greater flexibility and options when integrating several home theater components.The HDMI CAT-5 Extreme-S sender unit sits next to your computer, set-top box or DVD player source. Cables supplied with the HDMI CAT-5 Extreme connect your DVI or HDMI source to the send unit. The HDMI CAT-5 Extreme-R receive unit sits next to your HDTV display - up to 200 feet away. The display plugs into the back of the HDMI CAT-5 Extreme-R receiver unit. Two CAT-5 cables the sender and the receiver units to each other.
DVI, or Digital Video Interface Technology came about in 1999 as a result of the formation of the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG) a year prior. Their original mission was to create a standard digital video interface for communication between a Personal Computer and a VGA monitor. Recently, however, the consumer electronics industry began implementing DVD players, set-top boxes, televisions, and LCD/plasma monitors with DVI technology.
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data. It represents a digital alternative to consumer analog standards such as Radio Frequency (RF) coaxial cable, composite video, S-Video, SCART, component video, D-Terminal, and VGA. HDMI connects digital audio/video sources such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, personal computers (PCs), video game consoles, and AV receivers to compatible digital audio devices, computer monitors, and digital televisions. HDMI supports, on a single cable, any TV or PC video format, including standard, enhanced, and high-definition video, up to 8 channels of digital audio, and the Consumer Electronics Control signal. It is independent of the various digital television standards such as ATSC and DVB as these are encapsulations of compressed MPEG video streams (which can be decoded and output as an uncompressed video stream on HDMI). A Digital Visual Interface (DVI) signal is electrically compatible with an HDMI video signal; no signal conversion needs to take place when an adapter is used, and consequently no loss in video quality occurs.
High-definition television (or HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition TV, or SDTV). HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television (DTV) signals are used, requiring less bandwidth due to digital video compression.
- Extends high definition displays up to 200 feet from the computer
- Improved compensation for cable skew
- Eliminates equipment noise in the viewing environment
- Supports 480P, 720P, 1080I, 1080P and 1920 x 1200 resolutions
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