Reading further you may realize this belongs in the Gaming forums but I think this is more cable related than gaming.
My 23" monitor has DVI, HDMI and VGA inputs. I use DVI with PC and the HDMI is hooked to a HDMI switch that connects all my consoles in my room to one monitor. everything works fine no noise even when multiple sources are sending video to the HDMI switch meaning tons of cables and video signals rushing here and there. Also to compliment audio, 5.1 Altec Lansing speakers and wireless headset for nighttime, whose transmitter sends out 5GHz radios and my wireless router on the 1st floor uses 5Ghz band too. but I have no qualms there. everything flows as it should.
Recently dusted off my old PS2 but all I have are really thick sleeved rocketfish component cables for it, but my Monitor has no Component inputs so I bought a Component to HDMI box definitely a cheap piece of hardware, but hey! no lines, no noise, everything is good.
In efforts of making my consoles flow together video and audio wise in my growing Man-cave, I needed optical out for my 360, as its the only device in the room without it, my headset runs off toslink audio, and my PC has opt-in to analog out 5.1.
So I bought a 4 in 1 component cable to hook up PS2 and 360 to the same Component to HDMI box.
But now I have noise ONLY with this cable, getting lines across the screen from both 360 and PS2, where before PS2's other component cables produced no lines, have yet to test a dedicated 360 component cable (has yet to arrive).
Could I solve this problem with mere cable shielding? seems the 4in1 is poorly shielded because when I use it, I get video noise, even in my cable-jungle.
My 23" monitor has DVI, HDMI and VGA inputs. I use DVI with PC and the HDMI is hooked to a HDMI switch that connects all my consoles in my room to one monitor. everything works fine no noise even when multiple sources are sending video to the HDMI switch meaning tons of cables and video signals rushing here and there. Also to compliment audio, 5.1 Altec Lansing speakers and wireless headset for nighttime, whose transmitter sends out 5GHz radios and my wireless router on the 1st floor uses 5Ghz band too. but I have no qualms there. everything flows as it should.
Recently dusted off my old PS2 but all I have are really thick sleeved rocketfish component cables for it, but my Monitor has no Component inputs so I bought a Component to HDMI box definitely a cheap piece of hardware, but hey! no lines, no noise, everything is good.
In efforts of making my consoles flow together video and audio wise in my growing Man-cave, I needed optical out for my 360, as its the only device in the room without it, my headset runs off toslink audio, and my PC has opt-in to analog out 5.1.
So I bought a 4 in 1 component cable to hook up PS2 and 360 to the same Component to HDMI box.
But now I have noise ONLY with this cable, getting lines across the screen from both 360 and PS2, where before PS2's other component cables produced no lines, have yet to test a dedicated 360 component cable (has yet to arrive).
Could I solve this problem with mere cable shielding? seems the 4in1 is poorly shielded because when I use it, I get video noise, even in my cable-jungle.
