Advice on splitting HDMI signal
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Afternoon all
Bit of advice.
In my basement I currently have quite a generic Sony system (2 speaker) that runs off the jack on my computer. I have a 32" Samsung TV that hangs on one wall and is fed from a display port/hdmi adaptor from the computer' video card, I only use this as a duplicated screen over the bar area.
The 22" monitor it duplicates uses a standard VGA cable.
In the other area of the basement I have a 55" Sony TV which is fed by various consoles/sources into a Yamaha amp/surround sound 5.1 system which acts as a 4 in/1 out HDMI splitter. There is one free HDMI socket on this box.
I want, for pure first world reasons, to add another 32" TV to the wall and also use the empty input on the Yamaha box.
My dream is to:
Duplicate the screen from the PC onto the existing 32", the new 32" and the 55" and have sound coming out of both the Sony HiFi and the 5.1 system.
I plan to use a 1 into 4 HDMI splitter at the PC end, splitting the signal to the three satellite TVs. I would like the signal that reaches the Yamaha box to act like any other HDMI signal and provide sound and picture to that.
I fear two problems - one is that the run on the HDMI cable to the 55"/Yamaha would be about 20m. I use a 15m cable at the moment to the in situ 32" with no problems. Possibly thinking about using an HDMI/CAT6 balun at each end and running some good quality CAT 6 everywhere.
The second problem is that if I am using the jack from the PC into the HiFi, does this somehow tell the motherboard/soundcard to mute sound down the HDMI route? If so no sound will reach the 55".
Hope this hasn't confused anyone and I appreciate any thoughts!
Cheers all
Bit of advice.
In my basement I currently have quite a generic Sony system (2 speaker) that runs off the jack on my computer. I have a 32" Samsung TV that hangs on one wall and is fed from a display port/hdmi adaptor from the computer' video card, I only use this as a duplicated screen over the bar area.
The 22" monitor it duplicates uses a standard VGA cable.
In the other area of the basement I have a 55" Sony TV which is fed by various consoles/sources into a Yamaha amp/surround sound 5.1 system which acts as a 4 in/1 out HDMI splitter. There is one free HDMI socket on this box.
I want, for pure first world reasons, to add another 32" TV to the wall and also use the empty input on the Yamaha box.
My dream is to:
Duplicate the screen from the PC onto the existing 32", the new 32" and the 55" and have sound coming out of both the Sony HiFi and the 5.1 system.
I plan to use a 1 into 4 HDMI splitter at the PC end, splitting the signal to the three satellite TVs. I would like the signal that reaches the Yamaha box to act like any other HDMI signal and provide sound and picture to that.
I fear two problems - one is that the run on the HDMI cable to the 55"/Yamaha would be about 20m. I use a 15m cable at the moment to the in situ 32" with no problems. Possibly thinking about using an HDMI/CAT6 balun at each end and running some good quality CAT 6 everywhere.
The second problem is that if I am using the jack from the PC into the HiFi, does this somehow tell the motherboard/soundcard to mute sound down the HDMI route? If so no sound will reach the 55".
Hope this hasn't confused anyone and I appreciate any thoughts!
Cheers all
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