Gefen announces HDMI v1.3 Repeater: $199 for an extra 100 feet

Aw c'mon, $2 per foot ain't bad, now is it? While we'll happily leave that decision to you, Gefen is giving prospective customers the option of extending their HDMI 1.3 signal another 100 feet for $199. The GefenTV Repeater for HDMI 1.3 links a pair of 50-foot (or shorter) HDMI cables together in order to create a longer connection without losing any audio / image fidelity. Additionally, multiple units can be daisy-chained for extensions up to 360-feet, and of course, the adapter plays nice with legacy HDMI versions as well as 1.3 niceties such as Deep Color, 1080p resolution and 8-channel audio. It's available to order right now.

[Via Widescreen Review]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 5th 2008 9:55AM]

Why does an HDMI signal deteriorate over distance?
I thought it was all digital and immune to that.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2008 2:10AM]

Digital doesn't mean it can travel an infinite distance without deterioration. It means that it can tolerate small amounts of loss and still be perfectly reproducible.