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Home theatre installations are on the rise. So are the headaches associated with roughing high tech systems into retrofit or new home situations. A new HDMI line driver and diagnostic unit by Honeywell is now out to ease installation problems. 

Designed for the growing numbers of home theater installers who are using HDMI cables to transmit audio, video and communication signals, the HDMI driver features the company's CURxE Light technology to diagnose and correct corrupted communication data on the HDCP and EDID channels that would otherwise degrade audio/video quality.

According to a press release issued by the company: "Many HDMI problems are the result of inconsistent capacitive loading caused in part by source devices," says David Coleman, Director of Consumer Electronics, Honeywell. "These problems can occur regardless of the length of HDMI cable used by installers. Our new line driver automatically seeks out this corrupted data and returns it to its intended dynamic range for simple and reliable performance."

Four LED lights on the unit serve as self-diagnostic monitoring indicators to show verification of Hot Plug detection, +5 Volts status, HDCP, and EDID. Based on LED activity, the installer or end-user will see the problem whether it¹s downstream, upstream or related to hardware inconsistency.