Ok, Getting back on track I just think it is important to say that we are not using The HDBaset Extenders because they will not work with (Cable company) Cisco, brand new contour boxes.

We Just installed 7 HDBaseT extenders in a job where the 7 contour boxes were to be hidden in the rack. Non of them worked. We actually had to call Zuum and ask what the deal is and they sent us HDMI Splitters to "dumb down" the HDBaseT extenders to get the contour boxes to display a video picture. I am told this would be the case regardless of which Hdbaset extender we used. Therefore, HDbaset is not reliable for every device. (yet)

Jeff, is there any way you could elaborate on this HDBAseT issue and the potential release of your new extenders with the splitters built in?

Same issue as from here:

[Link: remotecentral.com]

[Link: snapav.com]

Also don’t try ARC with HDBaseT; not supported by the Valens chipset.

NEZBO, first you should have used us! That cable box probably uses the 9300 series HDMI chipset from Silicon Image. If they used that chipset, it is known to create a clock stretching issue which will result in either an intermittent picture or no picture at all. By placing a cheap splitter between the source and the TX side of the HDBT pair, it reclocks the signal correcting the problem and all is well. This fixes 99% of these types of issues.

To address this and other requests, we will be shipping a new version of the SoloCAT HD series called the SoloCAT HD Ultra. It will have a 1X2 splitter chip designed into the the transmit side which will mirror the HDBT, along with audio return path (ARP). This new TX/RX pair will have HDMI over HDBT, bi dir RS232, our proprietary IR circuitry that will work with just about any IR blasters and receivers, 4 ports of 10/100 Ethernet and audio return path along with our power over cable design. Available at the end of March.

That's it.

Jeff

Will price be same as existing solo cat...?

Spec'ing a project tomorrow...

Sent you an email.

You know....
Ya gotta love when a mgr. actually the time to understand the market, products and usage.
As usual, Kudos to Jeff and the Zektor team.

Jeff, Just to be clear. We had 15 extenders we purchased from the company I mentioned over a year ago to try them out. We sent them all back and they credited our account and sent us new HDBaset extenders. We still love Zector.