Re: DVI Cable length

["Mik Griffin" <panheadscrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,

I am not sure if the DVI is analogue or digital and have mailed the
Hitachi techies to ask and see if they can recommend a solution.
The alternative would be to use an S-video link as both the plasma
screen and the AV unit have this (although unfortunately neither
have RGBVH) - I already use S-video for the existing TV and it works
acceptably but it does give a small degradation in picture quality -
hence why I asked.

Mik

> Lindy 10m DVI cable with good results:
>
> http://www.lindy.com/uk/productfolder/04/41248/index.php
>
> there is a BUT... If the the DVI out adaptor on the Hitachi box
(is
> it HDMI or DVI-D ?) does not have sufficient power to drive the
> cable you may experience difficulties. When building the HTPC I
> looked around the forums and they mostly suggested a Radeon 9600
as
> a good enough graphic card, but because a lot of the 9600's out
> there don't have a dedicated power port, they were failing over
long
> DVI cables. The 9800's do have power input and that's what I am
> using.
> With true/digital DVI (i.e DVI-D) signal quality is not an issue,
if
> gets there, it will give full performance. On analog, the quality
of
> signal is a big factor in picture quality. For my non-HTPC viewing
> (Sky+, DVD) I use a Lumagen Pro scaler which feeds into the 5 BNC
> RGBVH of the NEC. There I have an expensive 10m 5xBNC
> (bettercables.com) and the quality difference is very noticeable.
>
> Keyvan
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mik Griffin"
<panheadscrew@y...>
> wrote:
> > I am several ketstrokes away from buying a Hitachi plasma which
> has
> > a DVI connection between the plasma display and its AV box.  My
> > DVD/Video/Sky +/AV Amp is in a cupboard about 10 metres away
from
> > where I want to mount the display.
> >
> > Anyone had any experience of using a long DVI cable?
> >
> > I have found optical DVI cables
> > (http://store.kayye.com/kayye/lonlendvicab.html)
but at $600
they
> > seem a tad exensive.
> >
> > Keith, any chance of a KAT5/DVI??
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Mik



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