Have you ever taken a VGA signal and tried to run it over more than 100 feet of VGA cable?  It will work sometimes, but often you will get ghost images and occasionally the signal will fail all together.  Plus, if you’re laying down that much VGA cable, I’m assuming you’re doing a full blown cable installation where you’ll need to get that cable to wrap around walls and make all kinds of twists and turns before it gets to its destination.  VGA cable is often thick and cumbersome, and if you bend it or kink it too much, you can easily damage it.  And those cables can get pretty expensive to replace.

One other solution that won’t cost you an arm and a leg now, and probably will never need to be replaced, is a VGA Cat5 extender, like the EXT-VGA-141SR from Gefen.  It basically will boost your VGA signal to ensure a clear and perfect picture, and then it will send it over Cat5 cable for hundreds of feet.  The included receiver at the other end translates it back to a standard VGA connector, also accepting UXGA and XGA.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 @ 9:24 am Fun Stuff
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