Timeline for Can power outlets and HDMI wall-jacks be installed with right-angle bends to accommodate very thin walls?
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| Feb 19, 2021 at 18:32 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Giffyguy heh, never say never! Boomers are crafty when they want to touch something they shouldn't be touching. I'm glad I could give you a good reason to actually use the adapter though. Good luck and it sounds like you guys have done a great job of planning all this! | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 18:29 | comment | added | Giffyguy | @MonkeyZeus Oooh, good point regarding the ease of replacing just the adapter. Thankfully, my church has dedicated volunteer A/V staff (including myself). We aren't industry pros, but I hope we know enough to not force an HDMI cable into the jack upside-down. XD We handle all the setup/takedown, so the boomers don't have to be responsible for breaking things. We also run the live production, which involves PTZ camera feeds, audio mixing for choir/organ/orchestra, playing pre-recorded videos, and broadcasts to YouTube/Zoom. Basically, nobody else will be touching these jacks without supervision | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Giffyguy Additionally, in my experience parishioners don't really respect sensitive equipment anyways so if they break the port by forcefully inserting a cable upside-down then at least they're only breaking the adapter in the wall and not ruining an entire 25 foot extension. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 18:20 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @Giffyguy You're welcome, I honestly think you have nothing to worry about with the right angle adapter. Think of it as just another point of failure rather than a point of signal degradation. As long as you're installing the latest version (HDMI 2.1) then you should see no issues unless the adapter is damaged or of horrible quality and not built to actual spec. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | Giffyguy | This is good information, thank you. We've accounted for some of these details. For example, we will use 2x8 HDMI distribution amplifiers with ethernet management ports (final hardware not chosen yet), and the HDMI cables in the walls will be running for lengths of 150+ feet, with boosters and/or repeaters as needed. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 17:48 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @dandavis Sounds like you were trying to have the cable do things outside of it's specc'd range. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 17:16 | comment | added | dandavis | Jerky, blocky, hard to read text, visible artifacts, edge contrast was exaggerated. It was much worse than just upscaling effects from a lower resolution, which the monitor actually does a decent job of. I couldn't believe it at first, but a co-worker also had the exact same reaction/chain of events with his identical monitor... | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 17:08 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @dandavis It looked terrible how? The old HDMI cable was underspecc'd for the new monitor resolution and color features? | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 16:31 | comment | added | dandavis | re: "a digital signal not analog so the signal will either work or not work, period" That's not quite true for HDMI, ethernet, and other active interconnections with compression and error handling baked into their protocols. It is true for some formats like SPDIF and MIDI, but not HDMI, where you can get degradation before severance. To wit; when I got my new huge monitor at work, I first used the old cables, and it looked terrible. We almost returned the monitor but new cables fixed it. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 14:34 | history | answered | MonkeyZeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |