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I have a Samsung 650 series HDTV, Comcast DVR STB, and a Sony bluray theater system. The STB has coax in and HDMI out to the bluray. Then HDMI out to the HDTV. This has been set up for just over a year. The problem that I'm having is the HDMI "out" port on the bluray goes bad. While the bluray is out for service at Sony, I'll just be running HDMI out of the STB to the tv and within a couple of weeks, the HDMI "out" port on the STB goes bad. In the past year, this exact situation has happened 3 times. I'm getting ready to send the Sony bluray theater system back to Sony for the third time and I just replaced my forth Comcast STB.... 3 of them were connected to the bluray and one was from another room just to do some testing. Anyway, I'm starting to think that there is something wrong with my HDTV sending bad signals or even electrical spikes back through the HDMI cables and damaging the HDMI "out" ports on the bluray and STB. I talked to a service person at the Geek Squad and he said that it's possible that the tv has a problem but he never heard of such symptoms. A service guy from another company came out today and basically said the same thing. My original setup was a cable box and dvd player on a stand next to the tv using 2 - 15 foot 24 awg in-wall HDMI cables from monoprice. Then I purchased the Sony bluray theater system and a Logitech RF remote and moved everything across the room to a cabinet. I ran the one of the 15 foot cables through the floor to the basement and anchored it to the floor joist. Then I coupled the 15 foot cable to a 30 foot cable to reach the cabinet across the room. The 30 foot cable is attached to and runs along side of my HVAC trunk line. I'm thinking that this may also be part of the problem. The cable might be getting static charge from the HVAC and sending it to the component. I have purchased a new 30 foot Redmere cable from Monoprice. Can this cable be coupled to the original 15 footer? any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advanced,
James
Thanks in advanced,
James