Can someone please help me or tell me I am screwed?

I just purchased HDMI plasma, receiver, SAT Tivo box, DVD changer, DVD-R and ran a custom HDMI cable through the wall to the back of the TV from my cabinet approximately 30 ft cable. It is not coming out anytime soon without a lot of damage to the walls.

I used fiber for sound to get support for 5:1 SRS.

Everything was going great. Then one day I decided to clean up the cable jungle behind my cabnet.

When I pushed the cabnet closer to the wall I bent the hell out of the damn HDMI cable that was run from the receiver out to the TV. The metal end of the HDMI cable broke off. P.o.S.

Luckily, ancipating something stupid like this would happen to me, I ran two component cables through the wall to my TV. For now I switch everything to component.

IS THERE ANY WAY TO REPAIR MY HDMI CABLE? I WILL FLY THE PRESIDENT AND INVENTOR OF HDMI OUT TO MY HOUSE TO HAVE THE DAMN THING REPAIRED?

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME IF I AM SCREWED FOR LIFE?

Thanks - Nelson

Almost impossible to field terminate HDMI. Perhaps Brent has a die and is willing to fly for the right price.

Alan

HDMI Hell is when the dam thing stops working in the middle of the Big game and the guy who just spent 40 thousand dollars on the system is calling you on a saturday night to fix it or else!!!!! Thats HDMI hell Good luck man atleast you still have component

Does the HDMI actually look that much better than the Component? I have one of my systems running both and have yet to see a huge increase in picture quality!

Yes.

We've tried A/B comparisons with the SA8300, and it was Night and Day better (hard to believe, but true).

It's not even a question of which is better at this point. If you want to upgrade to any of the upcoming HD capable DVD systems you'll need DVI/HDMI -- they will NOT support component for high resolution content.

Dawn

Along similiar grounds to Dawn's thoughts, if you continue to shun digital wiring due to distance we will be shutting out tons of possible content. As 1080P signals become closer to reality, whether its DVD or streaming content, it becomes increasingly clearer that these sources will only be available via content restricted formats, eg., HDMI. But as this thread points out, this is not a wire where field terminations are possible. We will need to deal with repeaters, and expensive cables that are too long by 5 meters so the goal of a neat rack will be even less possible. There may be a solution to the wire distance issues shortly and that may make possible neater terminations but it will require expensive interface boxes.

In this case, it may not be necessary to open the walls now but eventually it will be required. The real issue here is the foolish method ( which we are all too guilty of following of running wires out of walls into cabinets. RACKS, RACKS, RACKS. Screw the idea of placing equipment on shelves. If Nelson had a rack inside this cabinet he might have spent more money but his wire would not have been damaged when he tried to move the cabinet back against the wall and he would not need to open his walls and repaint. Even if he does this himself is time not money?

Alan

i think i will be using fiber everywhere the locally use fiber to dvi hdmi breakouts...that way i dont habve to del with those bullshit cables

2" conduit.

"Almost impossible to field terminate HDMI. Perhaps Brent has a die and is willing to fly for the right price."
Sorry, I will not even try.
Do you have 2 cat5 going the same way.
If so, first qtr of 2006 we will have the parts out to do HDMI over cat5 up to 100'.

Why do people making new technologies think that somehow if the ICs can get smaller, that somehow the properties of metal and wire and people's home cabinets also can allow things to get subtantially smaller without becoming worthless?

This is an admittedly large example of what an HDMI connector should have been:

Amen..
Gotta love a Burndy connector!