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I need to run a 15 meter (49 ft) HDMI cable....what to buy?

Jun 15, 2005 2:57PM PDT

I see the Ebay stuff, pretty tempting but I know you get what you pay for. What can you guys recommend, any particular manufacturer?

Thanks in advance,
Al

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hmmm....
Jun 15, 2005 5:29PM PDT
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Jun 16, 2005 6:04AM PDT

Started to look around some more, seems that there are issues with running long length cables. With all the different manufacturers, anyone know how they rate their HDMI cables? There's a drop off in signal integrity after 15 ft from what I'm understanding and repeater (Gefen) may be needed? Anyone run across this problem? There's a lot of no name brands out there as well and they never list the specs on them. I'm waiting to hear from RAM and Key Digital on their cables to find out if the 50ft length supports 1080p.

Any other comments or inputs?

Thanks,
Al

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There are...
Jun 16, 2005 2:46PM PDT

25ft DVI cables on the market, produced by large manufacturers (Monster/AR), so from that standpoint it's very viable.

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VGA
Jun 17, 2005 1:37AM PDT

I have run VGA at 50' with no problems. I'm guessing the you need this run to projector? If you are only running video and no audio DVI or a VGA cable would do the job and not have the drop off over 15'. John

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i agree....
Jun 17, 2005 2:08AM PDT

50 foot shouldn't be a problem. i run 40' dvi to my projector.

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Hmnn...ok
Jun 17, 2005 3:40AM PDT

Well I'll be running this for a plasma, to be honest I didn't even consider the DVI cables. And yes this would be for video only. So there is no discernible difference in video feed quality with the DVI cables, only diffrence being the the audio feed?

Thanks,
Al

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DVI....
Jun 30, 2005 3:37PM PDT

DVI will have a signal loss of somewhere around 10% past a 25 foot legnth. HDMI won't be as bad. A good component run will lose less than 1% per hundred feet.