[-=djsun=-]

Those of you who have bought longer VGA cables, 20 feet or more? where did you get it and anything to watch out for?

[sjetski71]

-=djsun=-, on May 2 2005, 03:58 AM, said:

Those of you who have bought longer VGA cables, 20 feet or more? where did you get it and anything to watch out for?

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monoprice has pretty good ones. Have their 15' vga m/m and it does the job perfect . Others here have reported that their 25' and 50' work just as good. Make sure it has ferrite cores on the ends.

www.monoprice.com

[fore1337]

I think I'll get some DVI-D cable from them. How do you know what type of DVI monitor cable to get? When I zoom in on the connectors, they all look different from the type I need.

I need a DVI Digital Single Link. hrmm

[sjetski71]

fore1337, on May 2 2005, 06:50 AM, said:

I think I'll get some DVI-D cable from them.  How do you know what type of DVI monitor cable to get?  When I zoom in on the connectors, they all look different from the type I need.

I need a DVI Digital Single Link.  hrmm

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As long as the description states: DVI-D (digital) single-link male/male then it ought to be ok. I've read in a few places (including AVS) that dual-link cables are better for higher resolutions and other environments so maybe stick with single link for now. Also be wary of lengths greater than 5meters as its reported sparklies can appear, even more so at the higher resolutions; sxga etc etc.

Too bad dvi can be so fussy about its cable lengths.

[Haku]

I bought a 5 meter (16.4 foot) VGA extension cable off eBay for £6, works great with my projector.

[fore1337]

sjetski71, on May 3 2005, 12:24 PM, said:

As long as the description states: DVI-D (digital) single-link male/male then it ought to be ok. I've read in a few places (including AVS) that dual-link cables are better for higher resolutions and other environments so maybe stick with single link for now. Also be wary of lengths greater than 5meters as its reported sparklies can appear, even more so at the higher resolutions; sxga etc etc.

Too bad dvi can be so fussy about its cable lengths.

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I've got a 3 meter dual link cable, but the pins don't allow the plug to go into my CMV520D monitor. It only accepts the pins of a DVI-single link cable. *Uggh* My Dells accept the dual link though.

Haku, on May 3 2005, 12:45 PM, said:

I bought a 5 meter (16.4 foot) VGA extension cable off eBay for £6, works great with my projector.

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I also have a 5 meter superVGA cable. It looks great on the CMV520D via N6. The DVI port will hopefully be used by my HTPC.

This post has been edited by fore1337: 03 May 2005 - 03:38 PM

[rogfa]

I have no idea if this works but if your interesting in another do it yourself projecto. This website states you can make a vga cable using cat5 cable with no signal loss.

http://www.myhomethe...m/vgacable.html

[Mongals]

That is kind of cool especially if you need a long vga cable.

[gregeast]

I bought a 25' SVGA cable from http://www.cablewholesale.com/

Good prices, good service and it works great.

HTH,

Greg