Aside from the late-night Tokyo drift race scene, few things are both as exciting and intimidating as the kill-or-be-killed world of HDMI splitters. Neophytes to the dangerous discipline of digital displays are often completely paralyzed with fear when confronted with the inescapable choice between passive HDMI splitters and active HDMI splitters. In fact, the confusion surrounding this [...]
Perhaps you’ve heard of the new HDMI 1.3 specification. If not, don’t feel too down on yourself. Even though the standard was released June 22, 2006 there haven’t been a whole lot of devices released that uses the new signal until the last 6 months.
Some of the changes include an increase of single-link [...]
As you may know products that are made to connect, split, switch or do anything with HDMI can be very expensive. The technology being reletivly new also makes us question weather a cheap product will work well or not. I was recently testing an HDMI switch for a customer and it was a 5 port switch so [...]
Do you have a dvd player or computer with HDMI or DVI that you want to hook up to your TV’s HDMI port but you don’t want the mess of a cable to go the distance? Our Wireless HDMI extender, part number SW-6934, is exactly what you are looking for. Just plug in your dvd player, or [...]
Sewell Direct will go to great lengths to make your HDMI signal go great lengths!
As good as HDMI is, it’s one weakness is the length of the cable you use for your HDMI signal. Under normal conditions, an HDMI cable can only reliably carry a signal up to 50 or 60 feet. [...]
In case you haven’t been reading the news, HDMI is hot, hot, hot. As this next generation technology takes hold and becomes more mainstream the question of how to boost HDMI signal will become more important. Luckily, we have solutions for every budget.
Active HDMI Repeater - $48.95
The first product that comes to my mind is [...]
If you’re planning out your next home theater project and it involves running HDMI cables over great distances the most common solution would be to use either an HDMI to RJ-45, or any run of the mill HDMI repeater. You’ll notice that both these adapters can achieve the same distance, 150 ft, but one is [...]
We have a whole line of Environmentally friendly video cables and the question often comes up about what makes the difference.
Environmentally friendly cables use a PVC replacement called “Termoplastic Polyester Elastomer” or TPE. TPE has two big advantages. First, it’s biodegradable. If you just through the cable away the normally corrosive PVC found in other [...]
With all of today’s high end electronics available, it is important to be able to switch or alternate between sources quickly and easily. One of the most common digital audio and video connection methods used today is HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface). It allows the consumer to quickly connect nearly any HDMI-compliant equipment to a display [...]
One of the big bonuses to the HDMI connection has been the integrated video and audio. This has created a giant headache for early hi-def adopters who now have a bunch of DVI equipment that require a separate audio connection to get the full multimedia experience. Since HDMI was released, there have been several DVI [...]