Wiring rig for HDMI

[D_E_Bishop]

I hope this makes sense to you techies because I'm not sure it makes sense to me.

There was a lot written about changing from analog to digital television signals but I haven’t read anything(that I can recognize anyway) about wiring a MoHo for HDMI. As my signature shows, my rig is a little older and was wired with RG-59 with a switchbox at the front TV. It has all RF inputs and outputs. Sometimes we have two different things being viewed and sometimes we have the same thing being viewed on both sets.

When I got rid of the CRT boat anchors, one overhead in front and one in the bedroom, I solved the analog to digital thing. The replacement TV in front had a built in DVD player the one in the bedroom didn’t, so in the back it was either cable or OTA signals to use that TV. I had an unused DVD player from the S&B so I put that back there. Then we did some time at the beach with the DGKs and they wanted to watch a movie in the evening. DW got the disc out and slipped it in the DVD player in the back and nothing. I forgot I told her now that we have a Blu-Ray player (in the S&B)so just buy Blu-Ray discs.

So now I have a flat screen TV w/DVD player built in that can’t play Blu-Ray, in front and one in the back w/a separate Blu-Ray player. Output from Blu-Ray player is HDMI only, no output from built in DVD player in the front. If I want to play a Blu-Ray for the front TV, I have to move the player from the back up front. This is not a big thing, just an extra bit to accomplish.

Do you see where I’m going? Can I replace (or even continue to use) the front TV w/the built in DVD player, put one Blu-Ray player up front and wire a switchable HDMI output to the rear which would require about a 20 or 25 foot HDMI cable or is it better to just buy another Blu-Ray player for the front?

What do the new rigs have? Have the manufacturers done anything nifty or just using duplication for playing the same disc on two different sets?

[donn0128]

HdMI cables can be very expensive. And they just dont make them longer than about 6 feet normally. So quick answer is NO! To do it ri