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Old 26-03-2009, 10:22 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Home cinema setup with projector - cable issue

I'm in the process of setting up a home cinema system in my bedroom with a projector.

I recently purchased a Toshiba xd-2000 projector for a bargain price of £150 which Im guessing should have cost a lot more. Brand new bulb in with only about 60hours used!

Currently I'm projecting onto a large white wall with a projection size of anything between 100 and 106 inches (corner to corner) Just an old Aiwa amplifier for sound with two floorstanding speakers and an additional amp providing me with 2 slightly larger than bookshelf speakers at the rear.

Other items include:
XBOX 360 (media center)
LG DVD Recorder
Freeview box (soon sky box)

The problem!

15ft room (i think)
i want the freeview box, xbox etc at the front of the room below the screen, when using a long video composite cable (yellow) to connect to the projector, the quality of the picture degrades hugely. The projector has composite video input (yelow) and S-video inputs. What's the best way of connecting these from such a distance without affecting quality of picture.

Can you recommend any nice expensive (yay :|) QUALITY cables? I have more questions to follow but lets deal with one thing at a time!

Many thanks in advance.

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Re: Home cinema setup with projector - cable issue

buy a gold plated s-video cable from cpc, nothing silly under £20
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Re: Home cinema setup with projector - cable issue

To use s-video you will have to be running this from an s-video device. S-Video unfortunately is one of those signals that is quite susceptible to noticeable loss over long runs on cheap cables.....

However, your projector will accept component video in SD or HD flavour using the D-Sub socket and a 3 RCA to D-Sub lead. This should be good for both X-Box and DVDR. I would invest in a cheap component switch, a long 3 RCA - D-Sub cable to run from switch to projector, and then run component from the XBox and the DVD recorder into the switch. You won't believe the difference from compos(h)ite.
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