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3 |
Works, but be careful
- Pros: Very long cable at a very good price. Significantly less than what you would pay for a cable half this length at a store.
- Cons: DVI signal is only intended to be used out to 15 feet, so there will be loss (green artifacting in black) when you use this extension cable.
- Other Thoughts: You can minimize artifacting by using lower refresh rates. At 60Hz you can barely notice, while at 75Hz the displayed image becomes unusable.
StarTech DVI Extension Cable
- Pros: Probably ok for sales demonstrations or other practical functional use for business.
- Cons: Lousy for Graphic Arts Multimedia & Home Entertainment use.
- Other Thoughts: I bought this 15' cable to extend my existing 3 ft'. I got a green noise in the video. Ok, the limit was 15' according to the DVI standards. So I returned it & purchased a new one AND I bought a gender changer to remove the 3'ft; to make it compliant. While this improved the video, there was still a green noise in the dark areas of the video display. (particularly in the dark black video scenes, images, etc.).
Just a little bkrgnd info -ATI Radion X1900 512mb for MacPro
20" Viewsonic VP20mb Graphic Art lcd display.
Good cable. Check your DVI pins first
- Pros: heavy, solid, thick cable. Great quality for the price.
- Cons: I was unaware that one end of the cable has 18 pins and the other end has 22. My connection between a laptop and a projector works great, regardless. But it would have been a bad surprise had my connection needed all the pins.
- Other Thoughts: I learned through this process that there are several different types of DVI connectors... Check the pins/slots on the two devices you are trying to connect and check every cable end of what you are buying to make sure it is compatible.
| Model |
| Brand |
StarTech |
| Model |
DVIDSMF15 |
| Spec |
| Type |
DVI Cables |
| Length |
15 ft. |
| Color |
Black |
| Connector Number |
2 |
| Terminal Gender |
F-M |
| Features |
| Features |
Compatible with PC and Mac computer systems
Compliant with DVI DDWG Standards
DVI-D Single Link Display Cable supports digital displays only
High speed digital transmission rate of up to 4.95 Gbits/sec
Supports hot plugging of DVI display devices |
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Reviewed By: James the Engineer on 8/16/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
