[Iainjw]

I currently have a media centre PC under my tv but I'm considering moving it into another room (about 10m away) and getting a long vga cable to connect to the tv. I've seen long vga cables but is there likely to be any picture qualty problems with such a long cable run?

cheers

[davepusey]

Over that distance you'll see a ghosting affect at high resolutions (anything above about 1024x768)

Can you run DVI or HDMI instead?

[Iainjw]

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Originally Posted by davepusey

Over that distance you'll see a ghosting affect at high resolutions (anything above about 1024x768)

Can you run DVI or HDMI instead?

It's not a full hd tv and it's currently running at a custom res of 1066 x 768, I'd have to swap out the gfx card as it only has vga out. Looks like I might need a new gfx card for this.

Thanks Dave.

[davepusey]

Yeah sorry, it's due to the very high frequency analogue signal. It starts to degrade very quickly with cable length.

I've used (in the past) a 5m extension at 1440x900 at although watchable, you could clearly make out the ghosting.

[Chris Frost]

You can go 10m and longer with analogue VGA without ghosting...but it's going to need high bandwidth cable and most likely a VGA signal interface as well. The cost of doing that though will be more than changing your graphics card and buying a 10m HDMI cable

If you are interested I have a Radeon dual output HD decoding graphics card left over from a recent install. We ended up changing the PC rather than upgrading just the graphics, so the card was never used.

It would be perfect for you. Plenty of horsepower to run high-res graphics.It has both HDMI and DVI output sockets with analogue VGA support. You can run one or two displays off it at the same time. The HDMI will also carry HD audio if you need, so you can get DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD in to AV receiver if you set the options for it. Yours for half price

[Iainjw]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Frost

You can go 10m and longer with analogue VGA without ghosting...but it's going to need high bandwidth cable and most likely a VGA signal interface as well. The cost of doing that though will be more than changing your graphics card and buying a 10m HDMI cable

If you are interested I have a Radeon dual output HD decoding graphics card left over from a recent install. We ended up changing the PC rather than upgrading just the graphics, so the card was never used.

It would be perfect for you. Plenty of horsepower to run high-res graphics.It has both HDMI and DVI output sockets with analogue VGA support. You can run one or two displays off it at the same time. The HDMI will also carry HD audio if you need, so you can get DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD in to AV receiver if you set the options for it. Yours for half price

Thanks Chris, I've PM'd you.

Cheers