As technology advances and becomes more available in the home with personal home theaters, we must continue to evolve to meet our customers’ desires and resolve the issues that are bound to arise. For both dealers and customers, HDMI matrixes represent one of the most creative solutions for home theater, but can also be one of the most expensive single item devices in a system. However, the investment in Ethereal’s matrix switches will be well worth it due to the added features we’ve designed into our products, providing a hot plug interrupt and additional setup options to avoid device incompatibility issues.

Metra Home Theater Group's tech team discusses the recent announcement that HDMI made at CES 2020 regarding their ultra high speed HDMI cable certification program for HDMI 2.1. While this announcement made headlines, it also brought up some very important questions for installers. We sat down with Brent McCall to answer those questions with what we know about the testing and certification program.

Metra Home Theater Group's Brent McCall demos the new 100 meter Velox fiber HDMI cable, showcasing its 48Gbps bandwidth capability using a real 8K signal generator from Murideo at CES 2020 in the Metra Home Theater Group booth. The EHV-HDG2 Series from Velox will be available in lengths from 10 to 100 meters, or 32.8 to 328 feet.