One Blu-ray disc player to three projectors in separate classrooms. One high-def recorder to five screens scattered across an auditorium. Three digital cable boxes carrying each big game to 100 high-def TVs.
Our HDMI-over-LAN/Ethernet IR extender kits open up seemingly endless opportunities to more effectively distribute HD digital content. How could your AV setup benefit? Which AV needs can it solve?
A better classroom or industrial training environment? A more high-tech, uniform office environment? A more dynamic and effective convention display? A more vivid entertainment experience at a nightclub or concert venue? At church? At a sports bar?
The HDMI extender kits make it all possible by giving you the ability to simultaneously transmit a HDMI 1.3 signal to multiple HDMI displays (up to 200, in fact) — without losing even an ounce of that sparkling audio and video quality HDMI is famous for providing. Furthermore, usage of a CAT5E cable or CAT6 cable keeps costs significantly lower than usage of HDMI cables of the same length — if there’s even an HDMI cable that can give you the length you need (even the best HDMI cables themselves are limited to just a couple hundred feet).
HD digital content can be extended up to 1,300 feet away on a LAN by cascading managed Ethernet switches up to three levels. These extenders operate on an HDMI-over-IP system, not an HDMI balun. This allows you basically to build your own AV Ethernet network. Receivers will find the transmitter automatically. The extenders even include an IR signal, for easier remote capabilities.
In other words, unmatched HDMI flexibility currently costs just $410. The sets also include a transmitter, one receiver (you’ll need to purchase additional receivers for additional displays) and an AC power adapter, plus one complimentary high-end HDMI cable to get your started.
Contact us to learn more about how each of our HDMI extenders can improve your AV capabilities for less. Or go ahead and take a look at our complete catalog of AV distributors to find a solution for your audio/visual needs.
The bulk of the HDMI extender devices we look at here on the MilesTek blog utilize high-quality, but inexpensive Ethernet cables to give users an enormous amount of welcome flexibility in their AV set-ups. But we also provide HDMI extenders that run over wireless connections and (as we’ll discuss here) coaxial cables as well.
Check out our HDMI Over Single RG6/SDI Coax Extender Sets — a new solution for upgrading to fully digital platforms using older technology.
The extenders can run sparkling-quality 1080p resolution signals up to 400 feet (120 meters), without losing quality, over a RG6 dual or quad shield cable. They can even extend SD-SDI signals up to 1,000 feet (300 meters). But perhaps most significantly, they are also compatible with RG6 and SDI applications.
By utilizing existing runs of RG6 or SDI coaxial cable, the extenders eliminate the need to install new runs of cable. This both lowers costs and simplifies installation (especially if your existing coax runs are difficult to reach or would require minor construction to replace). And the extender’s application compatibility allows it to connect directly from your source device (say, your DVD player, laptop, or cable/satellite box) to your display device (high-def TV, projector or computer monitor).
Taking this technology one step further, we also designed it to allow signals from two input sources to transmit to one remote display for improved functionality. Plus, a cascade port is located on both transmitter and receiver, making it possible to expand signals to multiple remote receivers.
Important technical notes:
– The coax ends need to be terminated with BNC connectors. Do not use an F-to-BNC connector adapter.
– As we mentioned above (it’s worth reiterating, for reasons that you’ll see below), the extender should not be used in conjunction with connector adapters, AV receivers/signal processors, switches or splitters between the source and display device. Instead, we designed this extender specifically to work directly between the original source device and the display (the extender will basically burn out in just a couple days or weeks if you do, leaving you without any picture at all).
– 75-ohm broadband coax cable must be used.
– The handy starter kit package includes a transmitter, a receiver and a remote control for switching between inputs.
The core benefit of our HDMI extenders is, of course, their unmatched ability to take HDMI cables that are very limited in length and run them over long distances at a fraction of the cost of an equivalent HDMI cable.
While HDMI cables can deliver high-definition audio and video in truly stunning quality, unfortunately, cable costs increase almost exponentially the longer you go. And there is actually a limit to how far HDMI cables can run before they begin to sacrifice the high-level of quality they’re known for providing (we refuse to sell anything less than premium quality, so the longest HDMI cable we sell is 100-feet).
So what’s your distance?
Our catalog is simply bursting with HDMI extension options — each designed by our engineers right here at our Denton, Texas headquarters. Each length-range has solutions available in a variety of forms, including balun extender sets, wall plate extender sets, IR-dual extender sets, and IR-dual 3D wall plate extender sets.
What will work best for you, however, depends on the length you need. Let’s take a look:
100 feet or less
For shorter HDMI extension needs (okay fine — relatively shorter needs) up to 100 feet, you’ll like want a passive extender with a CAT6 ethernet cable (required for passive extenders). These models don’t require a power adapter, further keeping costs low.
100 to 200 feet
For middle distance HDMI extension needs, you’ll likely need an active extender, which come with power adapters.
200 feet or longer
For those with long-distance HDMI extension needs greater than 200 feet (we admire you for thinking big), you’ll need a robust active extender with higher bandwidth and one that’s powered on each end.
Make sense? Contact with any questions, or just explore our full catalog of HDMI extenders to find the A/V distribution solutions for your needs.
As we’ve mentioned previously, one reason we love MIL-STD-1553 technology is because it boasts roots powering some of the coolest technology imaginable — world-changing machines like the F-16 Fighter Jet. But beyond the “wow” factor, this also means that today’s MIL-STD-1553B solutions are rugged, reliable, and capable of providing turn-key solutions.
And, since it’s also our belief that “flexibility is the key to airpower,” we’re proud to stock a comprehensive catalog of MIL-STD-1553B solutions for maximum flexibility, including bus and stub cables, TRB connectors and Trompeter Connectivity Solutions.
So let’s explore how different aspects of MIL-STD-1553B can help you, starting with data bus couplers. We offer the industry’s most comprehensive line of MIL-STD-1553B data bus couplers, including:
Box Style Data Bus Couplers
Our box-style couplers offer ideal solutions for a wide assortment of military, aerospace and commercial applications. We offer everything from 1-stub couplers to 8-stub couplers and everything in between. Each coupler category also includes single-, double-, and non-terminated couplers.
Inline Data Bus Couplers
Originally designed for airborne applications, our inline bus couplers are also available in a variety of styles, including everything from 1-stub couplers to 4-stub couplers, each available in single-terminated, double-terminated, or non-terminated models. These couplers take the rugged performance and utility of box-style couplers, shrink it down, and provide it in a smaller, but equally reliable form.
Bus Kits
Comprehensive and cutting edge, our bus kits (available in both 2-terminal bus kits and 4-terminal bus kits) include box couplers, terminators, six-foot cable assemblies and a four-foot cable assembly.
We’re proud to offer all of these 1553B solutions with same-day shipping.
As we mentioned previously, for many families, the holiday season means a slew new electronics, gadgets, and high-tech toys will soon be piling up beneath the Christmas tree.
We talked a bit about how our cable management products and solutions can help prevent all those nifty new toys from creating a birds nest of cords and cables in your living room. This week, let’s explore how we can make sure you have all the cords and cables you need in the first place. A big part of our catalog is centered around audio visual devices — such as HDMI cables for gadgets like high-def TVs, video game systems, computers, cameras and projectors — as well as connectors and adapters and MIL-STD-1553B solutions.
But we’re also proud to offer a cutting-edge line of other cable assemblies designed by our crack in-house engineering staff, including:
- Fiber Optic Patch Cords
We offer both multi- and single-mode duplex cables at a variety of lengths ranging from one-meter to ten meters. Our options include ST/ST duplex cables, ST/SC duplex cables, ST/LC duplex cables, SC/SC duplex cables, SC/LC duplex cables, and LC/LC duplex cables. Contact us for custom lengths — as with all of our products, we specialize in getting you exactly what you need.
- Coaxial
We offer both flexible coaxial and twinax cable assemblies, which are configured with multiple connector combinations. Again, we we’re proud to provide custom-length cables, as well as same-day shipping.
- Computer & Network Cables
Computers don’t have to be complicated. Network patch cords, USB cables, Displayport and SVGA cables — a full array of computer and network cables. Our custom assembly capabilities complement this catalog.
- CCTV Cables
Surveillance made easy. For CCTV power/video surveillance applications, we provide RG59 cable assemblies that utilize RG59 and BNC connectors.
- 1553B Bus and Stub Cables
We offer three-slot solder/clamp plug-to-plug assemblies, which we also offer with bend relief. High-temperature three-slot full crimp plug-to-plug, plus plug-to-right-angle plug and right-angle-plug-to-right-angle-plugs. We also offer bus scope test cables in both twinax and 2-coax.
Design. Production. Component Sourcing. Design assistance. Custom harness assembly. Large volume production runs. Small volume production runs. Whatever aspect you need support for when it comes to MIL-STD-1553B technology, we can do it.
In fact, we’ve been providing these sorts of MIL-STD-1553 solutions to our diverse base of customers for more than three decades — all the way back when the amazing military-developed technology was just beginning to become more widely used for private sector solutions.
We enjoy working with MIL-STD-1553 technology for a handful of reasons: 1) It’s cool. Anything originally designed to run a piece of machinery as jaw-dropping as the F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet would be cool. 2) That demanding of an application requires the technology to be relied upon as “mission-critical.” 3) Military avionics uses will also necessitate an element of flexibility and adaptability.
Reliable. Flexible. Adaptable. Cutting edge. This is our kind of technology. We understand “mission-critical.” We live to come up with customized solutions using cutting-edge technologies for our customers that meet their unique and evolving demands and needs. We believe that “Flexibility is the key to air power,” and can accommodate production runs of all shapes and sizes. We’ve worked hard to maintain a reputation for producing quick RFQ turnovers, bus coupler designs and efficient production timelines.
And we’re proud to be able to continue providing a of MIL-STD-1553 products and solutions still as a complete source for both the design and the production of MIL-STD-1553B devices and supporting equipment — as well of one of the most well-stocked resources of Trompeter/ Emerson Connectivity Solutions products anywhere on the globe.
For example, let’s take a look at our MIL-STD-1553B offers today:
Another holiday season. Another stack of gizmos and gadgets you’ll soon be adding to your home entertainment system. Pretty soon, a birds nest of cables suitable for Big Bird will be building up behind your TV (or security room, or server room, or office desk).
Here at MilesTek, we’ve got cable assemblies solutions for just about every need imaginable, including AV cables, component video cables, CCTV cables, coaxial cables, computer and network cables and fiber-optic patch cords.
Thankfully, we’ve also got cable management solutions to match them. Let’s take a look:
Make it easy to remember which cable belongs to which device with our complete line of Rhino Label Printers and label options (including flexible nylon labels, a heat shrink tube, permanent polyester, self-laminating, and vinyl labels).
Simple solutions for bundling and controlling cables, including cable clamps, cable rings and spools, and wide surface cable supports.
Tough, top-quality cable ties made out of 6/6 natural nylon — made right here in the United States of America. The cable ties are available in three colors — black, white and natural — and couple low insertion force with the maximum tensile strength. Options include ID tie wraps, mount tie wraps and reusable tie wraps.
An excellent high-impact rigid PVC solution for both routing and protecting your cables, including convoluted tubing, over-the-floor ducting, and slotted ducting.
A smooth, attractive way to control your cables, our top-notch raceway systems come with surface raceways, fittings and junction boxes. Each element is constructed out of 64V-0 PVC, and are available in either six-foot or eight-foot lengths. For simple and fast installation, the wide raceway base/boxes also feature foam-backed adhesives.
To learn more, explore out complete cable management solutions catalog, or just go ahead and contact us for more information. We’d love to help you get what you need.
Here at MilesTek, our purpose is simply to make connectivity more effective and less expensive for our customers. To do this, we’re proud to provide a seemingly limitless range of cables, connectors and innovative connectivity combinations that give our customers both functionality and flexibility (for a fraction of the price).
We’ve identified three keys that make this possible:
In-House Design and Engineering
As sellers, our daily interactions with our diverse network of clients gives us an excellent view of the continual evolution of customer needs and technological demands. As designers and engineers, we can respond to new developments with unmatched speed. We can build to your prints, or revise your current designs in order to make them more effective or more cost-effective.
This approach applies to a wide variety of connectivity products, including:
In-House Manufacturing
Manufacturing affords us far greater oversight over both quality control and our rapid, on-time delivery capabilities. We’re based in Denton, Texas, an excellent place to call home and an ideal, centrally-located headquarters from which to respond to our customers’ needs.
But perhaps most importantly, in-house manufacturing allows our teams of innovative technicians to both come up with new conceptual solutions when emerging needs arise — both for evolving industry-wide trends and customer-specific needs — and make sure the solutions are practical and workable. In-house manufacturing also gives us one more capability needed to ensure that products get out the door quickly enough to meet customer deadlines.
Critical Experience
As multi-decade industry veterans, we’ve got both the experience and the expertise to make it all happen. We look at technology trends with a long view, and understand the nuances technological development. We’ll tell you if your product design will work, and we’ll tell you if we think it can be improved upon to be more effective, more reliable, or more cost-effective (or all of the above).
We’ve explored a seemingly endless array of A/V connectivity and distribution solutions lately that are suitable for a seemingly endless range of needs and technical levels — from one-room home entertainment systems to vast multi-display classroom, training center, and convention hall environments.
In other words, much of what we provide are advanced A/V solutions to both casual and sophisticated A/V users, for projects both big and small. The goal is always pull, plug and play capability.
What we’ve talked about so far is just a tip of the iceberg for what the future will hold when it comes to connectivity solutions here at MilesTek. But now is a good time to stop for a second and review how exactly our products provide our customers an unparalleled A/V advantage.
Here are three keys:
1. Smart bargains
Many of products smartly take advantage of high-quality, low-cost CAT5E Ethernet cables and CAT6 Ethernet cables. Without them, running top-quality audio and video from sources to displays over long distances would be either prohibitively expensive or simply impossible without losing signal purity.
The use of Ethernet cables lowers costs and lengthens your signal transmission capabilities. It’s a win-win.
2. Comprehensive Cable Coverage
We have solutions for just about every common (and some that are not-so common) cable technology available.
For example, while HDMI cables have only been on the market since 2003, we offer a full range of innovative HDMI extenders, HDMI switches, HDMI splitters and HDMI converters (as well as simple, reliable, high-speed HDMI cables as well). But we can also provide a full range products for older cable technologies like VGA, Composite/Component Video, and DVI distribution as well. And when the next wave of new cable technology hits the market, we’ll figure how to make it better, simpler, cheaper, and more usable for our customers as well.
3. Flexibility
Sure, we have products than can enhance just about any A/V cable technology your source or display needs. But what if you need a mix (as most multi-source systems do)? We’ve got solutions for mixed systems as well.
For example, check out our HDMI to component/composite video switchers, as well as our VGA-to-HDMI converters. Whatever you need to make your system go.
That’s the bottom line. Our A/V solutions make your A/V needs and problems simply solvable. Go ahead and browse through our complete catalog of audio video devices for more information.
Last week on the Milestek blog, we talked a bit about our custom VGA wall plates. The active wall plate sets we’ve designed for component and composite video (over CAT5E/CAT6 Ethernet cables) capabilities feature a similar set of benefits — but for a different set of needs.
CAT5E/CAT6 Ethernet cables are an excellent way to be able to run component and composite video over long distances at just a fraction of the price of regular cable extension — without sacrificing quality. In fact, these wall plate sets can extend AV signals up to 300 feet over a single CAT5E Ethernet cable or CAT6 Ethernet cable.
The wall plates are ideal for component and composite AV setups where your video source is in a separate room from your HDTV or other video display (it’s especially ideal when you need the source device to be securely located in a locked room).
So we’re proud to sell four different component video wall plate sets. Let’s take a look:
1. Component Video over CAT5E/CAT6 Extender Wall Plate Set
Like each of our CAT5E and CAT6 active wall plate kits, this one can extend your component video signal up to 300 feet. It includes a 110-type rear punch down connector for easy in-wall installation, as well as a source wall plate, display wall plate, and mounting wall plates and screws. Component video transmits in sparkling quality, including Y/Pb/Pr up to 1080i @ 164 feet, plus up to 720p @ 246 feet for HDTV. No software or adapters are required.
2. Component Video with Digital Audio over CAT5E/CAT6 Extender Wall Plate Set
This wall plate set is similar, but it also includes audio support for RCA SPDIF digital connections.
3. Composite Video with Stereo Audio over CAT5E/CAT6 Extender Wall Plate Set
Again, this wall plate set boasts identical features as the others, except for one key added capability: composite video at 100ohm and stereo audio at 600ohm impedance.
4. Component Video with Stereo Audio over CAT5E/CAT6 Extender Wall Plate Set
This wall plate set supports an extraordinary range of component video signals with stereo audio support, including 480p up to 500 feet, 720p up to 400 feet, 1080i up to 350 feet, 1080p/24Hz up to 300 feet, and 1080p/60Hz up to 300 feet.
