Yeah, HDMI was poorly designed. But some makers have stepped up and built really good quality cables to limit the design flaws.

I've yet to see an HDMI over Ethernet box that has really impressed me. HDMI 1.3 requires 10 Gb of throughput. It's hard enough to get Cat6 to do 1 Gbps cleanly. 10 Gbps over copper Ethernet only happens with good equipment under good conditions.

You can easily do 35' with a quality HDMI cable.


Pioneer PDP-5020FD, Marantz SR6011
Axiom M5HP, VP160HP, QS8
Sony PS4, surround backs
-Chris