I've tried some ways of hooking up a computer in one room to a TV in another in various ways that use video encoding/streaming, and while nvidia does a great job, there's still some latency that I'd like to eliminate. One way of doing so could be to use an optical HDMI cable since the distance to cover is about 40m.
I would have to route such a cable through some 5/8" (16mm) pipes, so the HDMI connector needs to be separated from the cable on one end. So I'm looking for either a fully detachable connector, or I'd have to chop up the cable and reattach the insides. Guessing that with the transceiver electronics inside the connector, the former likely doesn't exist.
I do own a (cheap, Chinese) fusion splicer, which does standard single and multimode perfectly fine, so if I find a cable that uses fiber with similar diameters, this seems viable. No idea how many fibers I'd be looking at, but this isn't a big concern at the moment.
Anyone here have some experience with fusion splicing optical HDMI cables?