Like the majority of other online home theater cable providers, we do not make DVI or HDMI cable ourselves. Rather, we searched a long time to find cables that met or exceeded DVI and HDMI performance standards, and were more than capable of reliably carrying digital video signals for long distances without information loss. And just like all our handcrafted cables, the result is a really great performance to VALUE ratio, for you!
DVI (Digital Video Interface) is a standard designed by the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG) that employs twisted-pair cable rather than coaxial cable to carry high bit rate digital video without error correction. This type of construction usually results in problems with signal degradation over distance. At a distance of only a few feet, any well made DVI cable will do fine; but at long lengths and high resolutions, cable quality becomes a factor of critical importance. A poor cable will cause bit errors leading to "sparkles" on the display or even complete loss of signal. Our DVI-D cables are tested and will perform perfectly at 1080i and 1080p resolutions, all the way out to 50 feet, with no observable signal degradation.
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is a standard closely related to DVI, in that HDMI uses the same digital encoding scheme. However in an all HDMI cable, the digital audio signal is also carried along the same cable with the digital video signal. Further, since HDMI and DVI use the same digital encoding scheme, you can connect a DVI-D device to an HDMI device using an HDMI to DVI cable. This type of connection however, will not carry digital audio, so a separate audio cable will be needed, and can be either analog or digital, depending on the equipment being connected. We carry both HDMI to HDMI, and HDMI to DVI-D cables, all performing out to 50 feet with no signal degradation.
Since we don't manufacture these cables in house, we are unable to provide custom lengths.
