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Used for: Less than a month
Three stars, and I want to be fair about why. The cable works: 4K at 60 from a media box in a cupboard to a projector fifty metres away in a converted barn, and the picture is genuinely lovely. What has cost it two stars is the outer sleeve, which arrived with the printed lettering already rubbed off in patches and a scuff about a metre from the source end that looks like it happened before it was coiled. On a cable that has to be pulled through a building I want to trust the jacket, and I do not entirely. It is also worth saying the plugs run warm to the touch after a few hours. Not hot, not worrying, but warmer than I have felt on a copper lead.
Used for: More than a year
End markings have rubbed off
The print marking which end is which has worn away and now I have to guess, but the thing has been faultless for well over a year
Used for: 6–12 months
Thin enough for a route nobody was allowed to enlarge
The source end still needs a USB socket nearby
Our church wanted a screen at the front and the desk at the back, and the run had to go under the floor of a listed building where nobody was allowed to widen anything. This is thin enough that it went through the existing gap without a single argument with the conservation officer. Nine months of two services every Sunday and it has never failed to come up. Audio through it as well, which saved a second run entirely!
Used for: Less than a month
Worked straight away with no settings to change
You need somebody at each end for the pull
Went in last weekend from the loft down to a garden room. Took longer to get the ladder out than to get a picture, and the 4K feed came up before I had climbed back down!
Used for: 3–6 months
Turns corners a copper run would not
An escape room needed a screen in one cell and the control desk three rooms away. This went round two corners and up a riser, comes on with the room and in four months has never given the operators a black screen
Used for: 1–3 months
Does the distance
Directional
Fifty metres, one picture, no drama!
Used for: Less than a month
Easy to deploy and pack away
Needs care coiling it back
First job for it was a pub garden screen for a match, temporary run along a fence to a projector in the shed. Up in 10 minutes, sharp all evening, and rolled back up afterwards without a mark on it. That is exactly what I bought it for!
Used for: 1–3 months
We hire out AV for weddings and this lives in a flight case now. Fifty metres means the projector can be at the back of a marquee and the desk can be by the band, without a repeater sitting in the grass in the rain. Rolled and unrolled maybe a dozen times in two months and it still comes up first go every time. I did buy a proper reel for it rather than coiling it by hand, which I would recommend to anyone doing the same, because fibre does not forgive a tight loop.
Used for: 1–3 months
Ships in a bag nobody could recoil it into
Picture is perfect. The bag it ships in is useless for storing fifty metres of anything
Used for: More than a year
Set up once and forgotten
Fragile if anyone stands on it
Still driving the golf club screens at 4K with nothing but a shrug from it
Used for: 3–6 months
Two runs, two first-time picture locks
A tight bend turns the picture to snow
Bought two of these for a gym: one to a screen above the treadmills, one to the studio. Both runs are around 40 metres and both came up straight away. The reason it is four rather than five is the bend radius. There is a warning in the leaflet about it and they mean it; I had one corner where the cable had to turn tightly around a beam and the picture went to snow until I made the loop wider. Plan gentle curves.