I’m visiting our Bay Area office this week, which gives me a chance to get a healthy dose of schmoozing in. (Not much goes on in the DC area.) So Sunday night, I took a circuitous route from the Oakland airport to Foster City by way of downtown San Francisco and Davis Freeberg. I introduced him to Guitar Hero and was happy to see someone worse than me (for now)!
On the product side, I spent most of my time at the $110,000 rig that analyzes signals passing through HDMI cables. Too bad they wouldn’t reveal who manufactured the cable that failed the test. I mentioned my short-distance Monoprice cables, and they didn’t blink – so I think I’m OK. ;) However, my real motivation at this station was to determine if I could use a Monster HDMI cable of ~25′ around corners and thru a wall without amplification for multi-room viewing. The product manager engineer guy guaranteed I could. If I give it a shot, I’ll post of course.