HDMI over Cat5e/6

Anyone know much about this? Ever seen any "dumb" converters? Everything I can find so far seems to be one way sender/receiver combos - I need something that simply converts the cable for dual way transmission. Ideas?

There are passive adaptors @ $250~$650 which are what i assume you are talking about. All of the ones ive seen require (on paper at least) shielded cat6. How far are you trying to send? There are also wireless ones about but no idea on the costs availability of them.

Yeah, this is a brand new cable run of CAT6, only about 10-15m or so.

It's for a pair of switches I have that use HDMI cable to stack, making them behave as one switch. I have to break them up and would prefer to keep this feature, but that's looking less and less likely. I DO have fibre as well, but wont have enough SFP ports.

Looking more like I'll just bond a few copper ports together I think.

I assume you dont want to run another cable but you know you can get up to 25m HDMI cables and longer custom ones?

Curious to use hdmi cables?

It appears theres 19 connections in HDMI. I suspect AV connections dont use all of those so it can be adapted to go down 1 or 2 CAT6 cables (8/16pins). I wouldnt be certain that the data link for the switches doesnt use the pins in a different manner than the HDMI and therefore most adaptors would be unlikely to work.

Could always get out the soldering gun?

Can't you just use HDMI?

Yeah I was surprised, but you can get huge amounts of bandwidth down HDMI. 20Gbps from memory of the specs.

I did ask for an HDMI cable but they said "oh no we can just do it over CAT6". I simply didn't have time to double check. So no, can't just use HDMI since everything is run and gibbed up now. (And zero way of fishing a line through).

Plan B it is, may well solder if I can find my iron.

Oh and yeah all the units I see do use 2 cables bob. Most seem to be one for video, one for DCC.

Chris, you need 2 x Cat6 for HDMI, or you can get fibre to HDMI converters.
We're doing a large coporate AV install at present and have run in both 2 x Cat6 plus Fibre to link the TV's to the AV Cabinet, aprox 50 - 70m away.
Any HDMI 10m or over needs HDMI leads with built in amplifiers... for AV anyway, not sure about data.