RE: DVI Cabling advice needed

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also be aware that with DVI if you add in additional connections you take
chunks out of the maximum cable length - for some reason DVI doesn't like
passing through too many plugs and sockets (don't ask me why - it just does
- I had this discussion with someone I know at Pioneer and I told him he
was
talking bollocks and he proved it otherwise).

DVI spec is 7.5m max cable length (apparently) and the rule of thumb I was
told by my man at Pioneer is that for each additional connector in the
cable
you should take out a metre of maximum cable length.

I know that Lindy do some nice long DVI cables but be aware that they *ARE*
outside of DVI specs - you take your chances as to whether they work. And
when DVI starts to fall over it doesn't just do so "analogue VGA
style" -
DVI is digital so when it starts to break down and glitch it really buggers
up!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 January 2005 18:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DVI Cabling advice needed
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> Hi Darren
>
> I think you will be unlikely to find what you need as the two
> back to back sockets would need cross wiring as they would
> mirror each other
>
> eg
>
> Socket 12345
>        54321
>
> so whatever you found (if anything) would be quite bulky.
>
> Could you get two wireable sockets and connect them with very
> short wires, that way one could be fixed to the faceplate and
> the other plugged onto the cable and your 90 degree problem is solved.
>
> Keith
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: darren_karp2001 [mailto:darren@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 09 January 2005 17:22
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] DVI Cabling advice needed
> >
> >
> >
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> > Hi All,
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> > I need to run my 10m M1-DA - DVI cable from my MCE box to my
> > projector. The route will go from one end of my living room
> near the
> > floor, up and across to where the projector will be hung on the
> > ceiling. The problem is that as I'm trying to keep all my cables
as
> > neat as possible I really wanted to be able to plug my MCE
> box into a
> > DVI socket mounted on a face plate in the wall using a
> short DVI - DVI
> > cable. What I'm looking for and can't seem to find is a chassis
> > mounting DVI socket which has female connections both sides
> and can be
> > mounted onto a standard UK face plate. The other problem
associated
> > with this is that the DVI plug on my cable is moudled and approx
2
> > inches long so any chassis socket would need to be right- angled.
> >
> > Can anyone advise? I really don't want to have to have a
> cable poking
> > though the wall or floor.
> >
> > TIA
> > Darren
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