[GRLUG] VGA / video question

Mike Miller ironmike52 at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 23 17:53:58 EDT 2015


one other plan, depends on usb.   there are many usb to hdmi /  vga dongles out there at 15 to 50 bucks.   might that work?

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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:44:46 -0400
> From: jtr at jrichards.org
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] VGA / video question
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:27:56PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> > 
> > > signal issue (as Mike indicated). The question then becomes whether to
> > > buy a VGA signal booster for the longest length of cable (the one from
> > > the laptop to the VGA port splitter) or go with VGA-->CAT5-->VGA
> > > adapters. I don't really need much flexibility since this is installed
> > > and no longer mobile.
> > >
> > HDMI -> CAT5 -> HDMI is much more readily available in the current
> > marketplace, ..
> 
> I would love to do HDMI, but as indicated earlier in this thread the
> laptop is VGA-only.
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