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It will work we have them in most of our theatres with a cable length of around 130 feet of Cat6. Most of the time the audio is played back through the HDMI port but we do have a coulple of locations that the seperate output is used with a Startek adapter
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I have a converter that lets me run HDMI over ethernet. Very inexpensive, and works perfectly. The instructions indicate it can run 300 feet. I purchased from monoprice.comComment
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They used to do this at the Zion Canyon Giant Screen theater (Imax Clone) theater in Springdale, UT. I only got to see game stuff on screen one time, but it was pretty cool. The 85 foot wide screen there also made playing video games more way challenging.Comment
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This sort of thing should be relatively simple. Just treat it like any Blu-Ray player but keep the controller range in mind. Some consoles allow you to use a controller over the network with a device like a laptop (e.g PS Remote Play).
I've done something similar before but with a PC. We have one rack mounted in our booth. It's all standard gaming PC hardware so I thought that it would be nice to load up Steam and play some GTA in my spare time.
Purchased an active USB extension lead and a Bluetooth dongle. Ran it from the booth, up into our gantry and left it dangling over the edge above the seats. Was able to connect my DualSense controller and it works great! The PC itself is connected to an Extron Scaler which passes through video and multi-channel audio just fine to our CP950/IMS3000. It's really immersive when playing games with 7.1 audio support. Yeah there's latency but when you have such a big screen, most people could brush that aside.
For consoles which don't have great Bluetooth range like the Nintendo Switch or when a user wants to plug in their laptop, we have a wall mounted DTP Transmitter on the wall next to the screen. I just have to set the scaler to the right input and I playback an SPL with the HDMI source.
GTA demo:
https://youtube.com/shorts/6qxHmUOO_SE?feature=sharedComment
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