I used to live in a one-room bachelor life where my TV and computer were in the same room. However, there was a door between the TV and the computer and I ran a 50 ft optical HDMI cable that worked great.

Now I’m married and upgraded to an actual house where the TV is in the living room and my computer in “my room” that is separated about 50 ft apart. I have a roll of cat6 ethernet and I’m comfortable making my own wires and using wall plates.

However, looking at Amazon, I’ve noticed most HDMI over ethernet is capped at 1080p and even the 4K is at 60Hz. While my optical HDMI cable (and my LG OLED C1 TV) supports up to 4k@120Hz. And 100ft of optical HDMI ($50) is like half the price of a pair of HDMI over ethernet boxes ($100+).

My goal is run games from my computer and play on my TV in the living room with a controller, so maxing out the frame rate would be nice.

So, even if I were to run an optical HDMI between the wall plates, would it be ok to run a normal HDMI from my computer/TV to the wall plate? I vaguely remember, my TV not liking the HDMI signal when I mixed the optical HDMI with an HDMI splitter + normal HDMI cable a few years ago.

What do y’all think?