Alex Brekken wrote:
On 10/25/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I, personally, find the look of bewilderment on guests' faces amusing
when I leave the room to put a DVD in the player. Besides, if you're
going to sit through a 90-minute movie (or 60 minutes with time stretch
:), the exercise required for walking that extra 20 feet to insert the
DVD will do you good.
How far away is your frontend machine from the TV? :) I assume there's some
logical limit to how long your S-Video/VGA/DVI cable can be before you lose
quality (or it doesn't work at all), right?
Just on the other side of a wall (about 2 feet as the cable runs, thanks
to a drill). However, I choose to walk around the wall instead of
trying to fit through the cable conduit--although I'd probably get even
more interesting looks if I tried :)--so I end up walking at least 10
feet there and back (depending on my starting position--probably about
15 feet each way if I start from the couch).
But, yeah, you want to be careful with long runs. Each cable type has
its own limit, but the hard part is that you don't know what that limit
is until you hit it. (The theoretical limits may be quite different
from reality. Depending on your components, environment, etc., you may
find your limit is significantly shorter or longer than people will tell
you it should be.)
Mike
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