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Computer to TV connection

_X__X_ Registered User regular
edited December 2006 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm looking for a way besides S-Video to connect my computer up to my TV for watching movies. I say not S-Video because my computer will be at one end of a 20 foot room and the TV at the other end. Are there other ways to hooking up besides S-Video? Such as Component Cables or Coaxial? I do have the option of sticking the computer beside the TV but room flow goes with it being at the other end. Plus its further from the room on the other wall so I don't have to worry about waking anyone up at night.

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    You can get an S-Video signal to go that far, it just requires a quality cable, and possibly a distribution amplifier if the signal isn't strong at the source. Alternately, you could get an S-Video to coax converter and run coax instead. Depending on how much you have to pay for the converter, that could be cheaper since quality coax would probably cost less than a quality S-Video cable of the length you'd need. I doubt that you'd be able to get a good quality signal without the use of some kind of converter or amplifier, at any rate. The S-Video and composite signals generated by video cards tend to be pretty weak to begin with.

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