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For those interested, I received my Brite-View BV-2500 wireless HDMI extender yesterday. For the price, R4500 
, I'm actually not THAT impressed.
Specs claim 20m - 30m line of sight, or 10m through furniture, walls (the Yanks have dry-walls, right?) etc. I could not get a reliable connection through one pane of safety glass over 6 meters, but after playing around I have now found spots for the transmitter and receiver where they are about 6 meters apart and going through one very thick concrete wall (had to run a 7 meter HDMI cable from my AVR to the receiver for this). On the transmitter side I have a normal 1.5m HDMI connecting the HD PVR to the transmitter. From power up, it takes quite a while (up to 2 mins) for the devices to connect and do the HDMI handshake between the source component and TV, this is a bit annoying. Also, it will only link and handshake successfully when the HDMI input on the TV/AVR that the receiver is connected to is actually selected, ie. when you select a different input on the TV side and then go back to the input with the wireless setup, there is another delay before the complete link is restored.
They also claim that it delivers an uncompressed digital HDMI signal for 1080p/24 (only 24Hz) and all the other formats (1080i,720p, 576p, 480p etc) at all refresh rates 25/30/50/60Hz. This is not true. I believe that the Audio part is totally uncompressed, but the Video is definitely a compressed format, they probably like to think it is LOSSLESS compression, but I can definitely detect some compression artefacts (still very close to what you would get with just an HDMI cable and most reviewers do claim that they can not see any difference). That said, the quality is absolutely superb for a wireless device, definitely way way way better than any of the wireless RF AV extenders.
The best application for the BriteView would probably be to have your flat panel wall mounted with your equipment rack somewhere else in the same room or to go wirelessly to a HD projector in the same room. ... rather than using it to transmit an HD signal from a different room. I needed it for the latter just for the HD PVR signal, and it looks like it would work well for me in the end, but I also figured I could use it later on in a different setup to have my TV wall mounted with no wires using the BriteView between the TV and AVR.
Would I put this between my Lexicon BD-30 and my KURO, NO! ... because I can see the difference in quality.
, I'm actually not THAT impressed.Specs claim 20m - 30m line of sight, or 10m through furniture, walls (the Yanks have dry-walls, right?) etc. I could not get a reliable connection through one pane of safety glass over 6 meters, but after playing around I have now found spots for the transmitter and receiver where they are about 6 meters apart and going through one very thick concrete wall (had to run a 7 meter HDMI cable from my AVR to the receiver for this). On the transmitter side I have a normal 1.5m HDMI connecting the HD PVR to the transmitter. From power up, it takes quite a while (up to 2 mins) for the devices to connect and do the HDMI handshake between the source component and TV, this is a bit annoying. Also, it will only link and handshake successfully when the HDMI input on the TV/AVR that the receiver is connected to is actually selected, ie. when you select a different input on the TV side and then go back to the input with the wireless setup, there is another delay before the complete link is restored.
They also claim that it delivers an uncompressed digital HDMI signal for 1080p/24 (only 24Hz) and all the other formats (1080i,720p, 576p, 480p etc) at all refresh rates 25/30/50/60Hz. This is not true. I believe that the Audio part is totally uncompressed, but the Video is definitely a compressed format, they probably like to think it is LOSSLESS compression, but I can definitely detect some compression artefacts (still very close to what you would get with just an HDMI cable and most reviewers do claim that they can not see any difference). That said, the quality is absolutely superb for a wireless device, definitely way way way better than any of the wireless RF AV extenders.
The best application for the BriteView would probably be to have your flat panel wall mounted with your equipment rack somewhere else in the same room or to go wirelessly to a HD projector in the same room. ... rather than using it to transmit an HD signal from a different room. I needed it for the latter just for the HD PVR signal, and it looks like it would work well for me in the end, but I also figured I could use it later on in a different setup to have my TV wall mounted with no wires using the BriteView between the TV and AVR.
Would I put this between my Lexicon BD-30 and my KURO, NO! ... because I can see the difference in quality.
