X1 Projector/VGA

[melphillips]

I have an X1 projector and currently am feeding it with composite only (Agh!). I want to run a 25' VGA cable from my PC for viewing video from the PC. I have a Pace HDTV box coming from the cable company so i can set the unit up to view from the component signal from my stereo.

A couple questions?
1. Can anyone give me a good source and recommend sizing a VGA cable for the 25' run that will not have quality degradation. I understand that i should be able to view at 1080i which should really be crisp.
2. Is the component video out signal on the HDTV cable boxes a progressive signal? The X1 only takes in component if it is progressive.
3. Also, can anyone recommend a digital audio cable for a 30' run. I have digital audio on my PC which i would need to run into my stereo.

Thanks in advance for any help given.

Mel Phillips

[Gary Lightfoot]

Hi Mel,

I bought a 25ft vga to vga cable from here:

http://www.itm-components.com/

They do cables that guarentee no degredation up to 200ft IIRC.

And Lindy's do good cables too:

http://www.lindy.com/uk/

I can't help you with the HDTV stuff - are you in the USA? If so, Lindy have a US outlet, so try that one instead.

Gary.

[Paul Williams]

Hi Mel,

The X1 can take component input (interlaced) through the modified svideo socket, but not at 1080i, for that you will need an output to the VGA port. A good quality cable would be those manufactured from Belden stock, if you are in the US(?) try the links below. For digital and video feeds 25/30 foot is not overly long, so should pose no problem as long as the cables are reasonable and well screened.

http://www.ramelectronics.net/

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/

Paul

[melphillips]

Paul, Can i run component out from my stereo system into the VGA port of the X1 and get the 1080i. If this would work, then i could go from VGA to component on my pc and feed the stereo as well as feed component in from HDTV and the DVD player into the sterep. then a single component to VGA cable into the X1, which i already have the cable for. If this would work, that would be great. Thanks for the help.

Mel