I now prefer to not string wires through walls, ceilings and floors if I can avoid doing so. Wireless options just keep getting better and less weird.
People say ‘I want the speaker here, because chair there and painting there and doorway in between.’ Then a few weeks/months/years later, ‘I now want the speaker/TV/whatever moved over here’, which is nowhere near the existing wires.
Well, they should know that's not possible
My current struggle is that I have no surround speakers. I have wire from the receiver to directly behind my couch, but it goes to a face plate where I ran wire to bookshelf speakers that we've removed so they don't fall on the heads of little ones. So I have to figure out a way into some weird wall cavities if I want in-wall surrounds. Boo.
Are you certain that you'll need a 50' HDMI? I'll admit that I don't have much experience with distances that far, but 50' is pretty darn long. Do you have a shorter path? Have you measured it?
The room is 20' long, with a 9' ceiling, and the projector would go in the back corner. I'm totally open to being told "no, you're doing it all wrong". Getting up into the ceiling space is a non-starter, but the basement is wide open.
Yeah I guess you're going to need 35' at least. Well, there's a really easy way to see if this will work. Just buy the cable and hook it up to the projector before everything is installed. I don't think you'll have a problem. I've only had distance issues with a long HDMI cable once, and that was ages ago and with a laptop. I suspect you won't have much of a problem.
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