Question HDMI to CAT5 advice please

[KiwiDG1]

Hi There,

We have recently moved into a new house and during the build, the electricians screwed up the HDMI cable and to fix it they will probably have to open up the walls, which they are trying to avoid. In order to avoid this, they installed a "HDMI to CAT5e/6 with LAN/IR/RS232" box, which connects our HDMI inputs (SkyTV and laptops etc) to the main tv. Apologies if this all sounds super vague as im not an expert here, but does this converter setup decrease the High Def feed? (i.e. direct HDMI to TV vs HDMI to CAT5 converter thing to tv... is there a difference in the quality of Video and audio definition?).
Any help is hugely appreciated and happy to give more detail if needed.

Cheers

 

[Joe Fernand]

HDMI over CAT - is often the best way to deliver an HDMI signal over a 'long' cable run, anything over 8m being 'long'.

HDMI over CAT Extenders - come in many forms, some will pass HD through unmolested whilst others will apply some form of compression (which may or may not cause visible artifacts).

Which Extender set is installed and are you seeing anything very obviously wrong with the video image?

Any plans to go to SKY Q or any other UHD Source or Display?

Joe

 

[KiwiDG1]

Hi Joe, Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately this is all new to me and the only info i can give you is this... hope it makes sense..

HDMI from sky box to "HDMI to CAT5e/6 with LAN/IR/RS232" transmitter
then through Cat5 into wall.... CAT5 back into a "HDMI to CAT5e/6 with LAN/IR/RS232" transmitter on the back of the tv
then out of the transmitter into HDMI cord and into tv.

make sense?

 

[Joe Fernand]

Connectivity - sounds correct.

HDMI over CAT Extender - do you know the Make and Model number, some extenders use compression others not.

Joe