HDMI cable broken Help

[Simon Brooks]

Decorator dragged TV and cabinet away from wall without bothering to disconnect any of the wires !!!

Male plug now broken off

Unfortunately the cables from a cupboard in another room (approx 10M) which entails passing through walls and buried in concrete under laminate flooring, absolutely no chance of pulling back and replacing

Not really interested in taking up flooring or excavating walls

I can run new cable using 16mm trunking following door frame and skirting profiles

Before I do the above is there any way of linking the sky box to the HDMI port on the tv wirelessly ? i.e. with a cheap sender/receiver setup link

Cheers in advance for any help

[karma mechanic]

Before you spend any money you need to consider whether your TV is going to be upgraded to a 4k one in the future, using Sky Q or whatever. If so then that old 10m cable probably wouldn't have worked anyway, over 8m you'd need to be quite careful in choosing a cable for 4k use. Same goes for wireless HDMI, it does exist but reliability and 4k-ness might be an issue.

Perhaps time to consider the direction you want your system to go in, then spend money...

Edited to add - if you were on Sky Q then it would be wireless to that TV as long as that TV was using a mini box rather than the main Q box.
Edited again - if you did that then the mini wouldn't provide 4k.
(Going out now before I think of more stuff)

Edited by karma mechanic on Friday 30th September 09:32

[hedgefinder]

you could always bare the individual wires and solder a new male plug onto the hdmi cable.
The correct plugs are avaliable online.

[bristolracer]

wireless hdmi senders that work are not cheap. £200 plus

the other option is to use a bit of cat 5 or 6 with a point to point hdmi sender/receiver kit. if you get the right one it could be powered by the usb port on your tv or pay a bit more for a power over ethernet kit.

[amare32]

Have you beaten the decorator senseless yet? I'd be making that idiot pay for any damage caused by his incompetence.

[talkssense]

A bit late now, but if you ever end up in a situation where a cable cant be pulled through at a later date put a few CAT6 in and use convertors on the ends. Easy to fix, easy to put new ends on, easy to upgrade as new tech comes out (4k etc)

Never, ever, ever put and HDMI in in such a way it cant easily be replaced

[Andehh]

talkssense said:

A bit late now, but if you ever end up in a situation where a cable cant be pulled through at a later date put a few CAT6 in and use convertors on the ends. Easy to fix, easy to put new ends on, easy to upgrade as new tech comes out (4k etc)

Never, ever, ever put and HDMI in in such a way it cant easily be replaced

Spot on!

I ran hdmi all over the house (cheap & fool proof) but backed it up with a few cat 6 cables incase i ever needed a plan B.

OP, HDMI over cat 6, route cat6 in slim lines ducting round the room and door frames to where you need it to go!

[OldSkoolRS]

I bought a pair of these HDBT lite boxes to connect my projector to a remote AV rack over a 15 metre (CAT6) cable at 4k24p and it worked without any glitches or drop outs, so 1080p would be no bother if you have a CAT5 cable already run in that route. You can get flat CAT5/6 cable too which might be easier to run under a carpet round a room, even if it has to go a longer way round than your existing HDMI cable.

http://store.aclasstechnology.com/triax-hdbaset-li...

[Garett]

As already mentioned it is possible to reterminate HDMI, not that easy though.

HDMI over CAT5/6 is an option, Lightware make some great HDMI extenders for use over CATx, they are more for professional use but will work in the home.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Does the decorator have public liability insurance? That should cover any cost in getting it fixed properly.