I'm looking to add fiber to our standard video prewire, but I don't have much experience with fiber. The goal is to support fiber based HDMI extenders now and in the future.

Would a single strand of multimode fiber suffice?

What other parameters/specs should be considered?

Just do conduit.

Notwithstanding the benefit of conduit, I would still like to know the scoop with fiber.

You want to run at least dual-strand OM3 or OM4 multimode fiber within a standard single-family residence. This will allow you to use IP-based 10Gb video distribution systems, and perhaps 50/100 Gb systems, once they are released. Decide for yourself whether compressing HDMI video and transmitting it over a network is preferable to point-to-point transmission ... all I will say is that compression is how it gets into the home in the first place.

Apart from the Inneos Black Jaguar, which uses a single SC-style connector, I haven't seen a new HDMI-over-fiber product that is not network-based and uses dual-LC connectors.

Some of those products are:

Extron FOX series

Savant's Video over IP line

TechLogix AV over IP line
 
If you can swing it, I would run quad-fiber OM4 multimode to each video endpoint. If you're traveling between buildings, look into single-mode, which is trickier to work with but does not have the distance and bandwidth limitations of multimode.

(OM3 should get you up to 100Gb at up to 100m (328ft); OM4 is rated for 100Gb at up to 150m. That sounds like a lot, but consider that uncompressed HDMI 2.1 is 48Gb. So say you're sharing sources between a residence and a guest house, you could handle a whopping two separate video streams at once.)

What he said!

Thanks, PeterN, that’s great info.

Is there a particular extender you’d recommend if the goal is bullet proof 4K?

I'm partial to DM-like systems where you get both video and control down a 'single' pathway ... easier to design, install, and troubleshoot, I feel.

But I have used the Inneos piece and it worked well. Hard to argue against that.

I've got a few of these coming in to try out. 18G 4k, IR, RS-232 and ARC over a single strand.

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B- do you have fiber termination kit?

Yep, I've got the corning unicam kit.

Cool, you'll have to bring it one day to terminate an end for me.

Also, what the hell R U doing up at this ungodly hour?

I have always thought this a bit of a cop out. Conduit is there for future proofing not for what we need there right now or in the near future....we all know what a bitch it is to get additional wire through flex after we pull something else in.

We run Cleerline OM3 Multimode Duplex...the stuff just works and terminations are easy....

No, nobody should run conduit and then use it for the initial consultation. ALWAYS along side, and it should be left empty with a pull string.

Ive been reading about this new HDMI spec and it sounds like its possible that single mode wont even be able to support it.

I am poking a stick at this thread to keep it updated.

Suppliers send me notices about their fiber products which seem to be proprietary. I am more interested in pre-wiring, or pre-fibering in this case, a cable that is more generic, and can be used for more than one brand of network gear, HDMI extender, etc.

Would that be a certain brand of raw fiber that gets terminated later?

Or perhaps some standard lengths that have standard terminations??

Un terminated fiber. Easy to terminate with what you need later. Agree OM3 or OM4. I have a lot of OM3 out there and sometimes wish I had pushed OM4. Conduit always good. Whenever possible I use MM for all the in house stuff. SM between building or anything over 1000 ft. Talking to production and broadcast they are telling me they use SM for everything