Visiontek 3650 512

[theDreamer]

My office bought a Dell computer and we also purchased an "upgrade" card which has HDMI out on so this PC could be used inconjunction with a television and easily have video and sound. We get the PC and card and plug directly into the television and things look great, but then the problem started.

The computer does not actually sit next to the television, it will be placed in the back corner of the room where it will be plugged into a wall socket (HDMI) and ran through the wall through a 50 foot HDMI cable and plugged directly into the television. So in total it will be ran about six feet (cable length) to a wall socket and then another 50 feet through the wall, so 56 in total. We hooked it all up and no signal, thought maybe the card went bad or the cable was dead. Brought a PS3 into the office and plugged directly into that and the cable worked perfectly, tried the computer directly connected (six foot cable) to the telveision and it worked.

I ended up calling Visiontek about this card and they stated they can only guarantee the card can push the signal through a six foot cable. First, there was no mention of this on either Dell's or Visiontek's website about a limitation on cable length, and when I spoke with someone at Visiontek they said my only option was to buy a receiver and hope that works, ok.

I am a bit out of ideas since I do not want to have my company just buy things we do not need when this computer will be for presentations and maybe some movies (DVD not Blu-ray or HD-DVD probably). Any suggestions on a way to get this to work?

Thanks for any help.

 

[HardwareGuru]

I can't gurantee this will work but, you can add a HDMI super booster adapter. It can be pricey as 1 can cost more than $150. The longer you go in the cables there will be higher attentuation which results in signal loss.

 

[w@termelon]

50 foot of cable is one hell of a transmission line.

the PS3 may have something to boost the signal out from the HDMI port because it expected people to connect to TV's far away, but the gfx card was probably designed with the assumption that your moniter wont be more than 6 feet away in this case, since moniters arnt usually that far away from the actual computer itself.

hardwareguru has the right recommendation, even though it seems costly, for a company it should be a drop in teh ocean to buy a really nice amplifier.