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Ok, slightly long winded title but here goes...
I bought myself a big HD telly a few weeks back, and wanted to hook it up to my PC. My PC sits in the other side of the house (a good 20m away) and as I was skint I couldn’t afford to buy an HDMI cable that length.
I thought I would give it a bash with a VGA cable, but before buying it I thought id better test it to make sure I can get the full 1920x1080. Hooking it up via my 1m vga cable, everything worked fine, looked great at 1920x1080, so I bought myself a 20m vga cable.
Got everything hooked up and was dismayed to find it would only run at a maximum of 1600x1200 with the longer cable. I’m running an ATI x1800 so I used the Catalyst control centre to force the Resolution to 1920X1080. While this kind of works, the problem I'm having is that it displays it at a 4:3 ratio (meaning I've got giant black bars on each side of the picture). Using the control centre to stretch it just causes the picture to cut out.
I was aware that a VGA cable of that length would cause a drop in quality, but not a drop in resolution. Is there some way to remedy the resolution drop? If not, can someone suggest a viable alternative?
Cheers
I bought myself a big HD telly a few weeks back, and wanted to hook it up to my PC. My PC sits in the other side of the house (a good 20m away) and as I was skint I couldn’t afford to buy an HDMI cable that length.
I thought I would give it a bash with a VGA cable, but before buying it I thought id better test it to make sure I can get the full 1920x1080. Hooking it up via my 1m vga cable, everything worked fine, looked great at 1920x1080, so I bought myself a 20m vga cable.
Got everything hooked up and was dismayed to find it would only run at a maximum of 1600x1200 with the longer cable. I’m running an ATI x1800 so I used the Catalyst control centre to force the Resolution to 1920X1080. While this kind of works, the problem I'm having is that it displays it at a 4:3 ratio (meaning I've got giant black bars on each side of the picture). Using the control centre to stretch it just causes the picture to cut out.
I was aware that a VGA cable of that length would cause a drop in quality, but not a drop in resolution. Is there some way to remedy the resolution drop? If not, can someone suggest a viable alternative?
Cheers
