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If I plug it directly into a monitor, it works fine. I just tested that earlier today. I was worried that PoE may not be providing enough power to the HDMI port but that isn't the case. I even used a 30 ft. cable to make sure the signal was strong enough to travel distance. Yeah, HDMI is proving to be loads of fun. This will teach me to try to save my boss some money.

Hi, having a problem here. I set up a Sanyo VCC-HD4000 camera with PoE going to a computer... that part works fine (using Sanyo's provided software, which I'm not crazy about). I also have the HDMI port of this camera outputting to a few televisions. The HDMI cable feeds to an ethernet converter (purchased from StarTech), travels to the television area, feeds back into HDMI via another StarTech converter, and then into an HDMI splitter and into three televisions. None of this works. I had it working for a few minutes but the output was dim and had terrible ghosting. StarTech claimed that my cat6 cabling may be causing a problem so I replaced everything with cat5e. It still doesn't work and now I can't get any picture at all. Does anyone have any experience in this hardware or this type of setup? Any tips that might help me get this working?

I've been trying to find the best way to do this all morning but I'm not getting enough information to pull the trigger on ordering the equipment yet. I'm the IT guy for a restaurant (but don't have a lot of experience in advanced CCTV stuff, just the basics I've set up before). What the owner is looking for is a high def camera pointed toward the band stage (I'm figuring 720p) that will do two things: 1. Transmit a signal to five televisions, the farthest away being ~125 ft. that will show the band playing in other rooms of the bar/restaurant. 2. In the future, we'd like to find uses for this video stream online so the signal should also go to our camera system, which is plenty powerful with a Xeon chip and 4 gigs of RAM. I'm looking through converter boxes and loads of cameras but can't decide which method of transmission would be both somewhat economical and reliable to operate. Any advice is really appreciated.

Great! That is exactly what I'm looking for! A few converter boxes to avoid long HDMI cables and that should do the trick nicely (though my boss won't care for the pricetag but at this point, I don't give a damn about that). Thanks again!

No one has any advice on this? Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to create a system that will allow one camera's signal to both be displayed in-house on a television(s) and sent to a computer for storage and possible streaming down the road. The trick is that I don't want the computer's monitor to be displayed on the televisions, just the feed from the camera.

As an IT guy with a background in web development, I can say that information sharing helps everyone involved. At times, everyone runs into problems and being able to research things on the fringe edge of your field (such as I'm doing with CCTV work right now) is beneficial. I'm sure plenty of you have had problems getting a Windows system to cooperate with a tricky feature you're trying to implement and a Google search has landed you in a tech forum where Windows experts were able to help deduce your problem. It's just the way things work nowadays and it makes all our jobs easier.