Component over Cat5

[Scud]

Hi Guys;

I am thinking of purchasing a Component over Cat 5 transmitter. I am hoping to distribute a component signal from one room to another. Has anyone tried something like this? I was just wondering if you have noticed any drop in the picture or sound quality. I am requiring good video quality and would not want to lose quality. There is something like this; http://www.svideo.com/videobalun1.html or http://catalog.belkin.com/digitalsignage/cat5e.aspx or http://www.ness.com.au/catalogue/files/Nes...e_2009_p86b.pdf

Please let me know what you guys think, im hoping there wont be much quality loss.

 

[Dave X10]

... I am hoping to distribute a component signal from one room to another.... I am requiring good video quality and would not want to lose quality.

How far is it... "from the one room to the other"? For component you can use coax for maybe 50 feet (or more). Then just use the "F" connect to RCA adapter. I did that in my Home Theater.

 

[Scud]

well the thing is, i already have a component cable running from my lounge room to my back room which is about 20meters. I would then want to use the component to ethernet adapter from that back room and run it about another 20meters.

 

[Scud]

anything?

 

[electron]

There is really only one way to find out It should work, but there are so many variables such as quality of hardware, cable, resolution, is there anything nearby which can cause interference, etc. I'd buy one from a store with a good return policy.

 

[ctwilliams]

I have been using one of the svideo units (link) for over a year. I have the cat 5 going through a patch panel and even that does not seem to effect it.

As fas as I can tell it looks great (720p and 1800i) and looks identical to other tvs using hdmi. Total distance is about 50-60 feet using your standard cat5e cable.....

CT

 

[jautor]

Hi Guys;

I am thinking of purchasing a Component over Cat 5 transmitter. I am hoping to distribute a component signal from one room to another. Has anyone tried something like this? I was just wondering if you have noticed any drop in the picture or sound quality. I am requiring good video quality and would not want to lose quality. There is something like this; http://www.svideo.com/videobalun1.html or http://catalog.belkin.com/digitalsignage/cat5e.aspx or http://www.ness.com.au/catalogue/files/Nes...e_2009_p86b.pdf

Please let me know what you guys think, im hoping there wont be much quality loss.

Note that some of those products are transmitting video only, no audio or IR... And the inexpensive solutions that do will require 2 cat5 cables.

I've used the CE Labs Cat5tx / Cat5rx products in my house, with no detectable difference in quality.

There's a number of these products, though, so the short answer is that as a technology/solution, yes, HD-component-over-Cat5 works without quality issues, but YMMV depending on which product you actually buy.

Jeff

 

[George M]

+1 on the CE Labs Cat5tx / Cat5rx

GM

 

[trouble]

I have been using 3 of the units from Radio Parts (in Melbourne) Link and they are pretty good. The only issue is that the come as a wall mount socket (like a power point) with the 3 component RCA plugs and also the IR transmitter port. But as i had the house cabled up already, i just took them off the wall socket and hide it behind the TV. Also it only uses 1 cat5 run to do the component and IR. But i didnt pay $149 for the set, i paid $110 from memory as we have a dealer account with them.

Paul

 

[zaccari]

I've been using CELabs and I must say I'm impressed by how well it has worked for over a year now. It has an IR component but I never played with that so you'd be on your own there.

Russ...

 

[jautor]

I've been using CELabs and I must say I'm impressed by how well it has worked for over a year now. It has an IR component but I never played with that so you'd be on your own there.

Russ...

The IR portion works, just know that it's completely passive. You need an IR receiver on the 'RX' side with its own power. Essentially, the Cat5TX/RX is a pass-through for an IR emitter - the emitter on the TX side, and an input to the RX side that will drive the emitter...

Not as nice as having the IR receiver engine built-in, but if you've already got an IR repeating solution at the RX side, it works fine.

Jeff

 

[MixNut]

Hi Guys;

I am thinking of purchasing a Component over Cat 5 transmitter. I am hoping to distribute a component signal from one room to another. Has anyone tried something like this? I was just wondering if you have noticed any drop in the picture or sound quality.

Try Muxlab's passive baluns...I've had excellent success with these. They offer a YPrPb + S/PDIF Coaxial or a YPrPb + Stereo Audio over *single* CAT5e or CAT6 data cable. I've never observed signiificant PQ loss for distances up to 100 ft, though I do use Belden "low skew" CAT6 cable in my installations to hedge the bet. Low skew data cable minimizes the time arrival differences of each pair within the cable bundle so that passive baluns [like muxlab's] can work well at significant distances without the need for active delay correction circuitry.

Best of luck!

 

[Mattbarrett]

I'll add another vote for MuxLab, I have several in use, including the component + stereo audio over single cat5 and it works great, maybe I have a bad eye but it looks as good as HDMI to me (on Sharp Aquos TV's).

 

[felixrosbergen]

I'm using a Compoent (Audio and Video) over single Cat5 and have noticed a hum in the audio..but cannot definitively say if it's caused by the balun, TV or upstream..

 

[wsr31]

Have you looked at cabletronics CT-CATTX and CT-CATRX?

I'd post links but I'm a newb, homecontrols website had them for $75 and $95 respectively

I was looking at these as I'm a 2 TV home and I'd like to run one HDDVR box to be able to access the DVR from either TV, with the benefit of saving $10/mo on the extra box.