Distribute Tools: Altinex DR446-103

Enables HDMI transmission up to 300ft. using high-quality coaxial cable. Price: $395

New signal-distribution technologies offer benefits, but if you're faced with an installed network that works, it might be difficult to find money to completely replace it. Products such as Altinex's DR446-103 video-over-coax transmitter/receiver are designed for just that situation — here, to use existing RGBHV cabling infrastructure to transmit high-resolution digital HDMI signals. One example the company cites for employing this device: Existing DVD players that feed distant monitors could be upgraded to Blu-ray players, which require HDMI cabling. The DR446-103 includes a transmitter to convert HDMI to run on 5-type coax cables and a receiver that reverts the signal back to HDMI.

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