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RE: RE: DVI Cabling advice needed


  • Subject: RE: RE: DVI Cabling advice needed
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:02:45 -0000



Lindy do some nice long DVI cables - I think up to 25m - but anything above
7.5m is outside DVI specs and you may find that you get reduced / no
performance at longer lengths.

I've used 10m at 1368 x 768 (on my LCD TV) and 15m at 848 x 480 (on someone
elses plasma) with no problems...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Milton [mailto:bmilton@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 January 2005 15:04
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] RE: DVI Cabling advice needed
>
>
> Also I agree with what Phil said about the lenghts and
> connections. My cable is only 5 Meters long and a 0.5 Meter
> one from the plate to Projector.  Also I was told that the
> max length was 5 Meters but mine is fine. But I wouldn't say
> you could get any longer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Milton [mailto:bmilton@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 January 2005 14:47
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: DVI Cabling advice needed
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> I went everywhere looking for something like what you want
> and I was told that nothing like it was available.  So I got
> a female to male cable and ran it from my PC onto a plate I
> made which is on the ceiling beside my projector.  I
> unscrewed the two nuts that are used to connect the cables
> together.  Then I put the plate (which I made) and screwed
> the nuts back on.
> Now I have a small DVI cable running from the plate into my
> projector. Nice and neat!
>
> I was going to do the same on the other end but no need as
> the PC is in Node 0 and won't be seen but if you wanted to
> just get a female to female DVI and do the same at both ends.
>
> Regards
>
> Brian
>
>
>    Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 17:21:40 -0000
>    From: "darren_karp2001" <darren@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: DVI Cabling advice needed
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> 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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