{"id":1035,"date":"2010-09-06T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/06\/how-could-i-have-missed-that\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T12:00:16","slug":"how-could-i-have-missed-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/06\/how-could-i-have-missed-that","title":{"rendered":"How Could I Have Missed That!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like such an idiot.<\/p>\n<p>So I needed a DVI monitor cable that exceeded 3 meters. The standard cables that come with any monitor are usually in the range of 1.5-2 meters.<\/p>\n<p>I went to GH to scour for some cables to no avail. A guy from one of the shops asked me if I had an HDMI cable since they&#8217;ve got HDMI-DVI adaptors. In my arrogance, I immediately dismissed the guy. After all, I was clearly in need of DVI and not HDMI.<\/p>\n<p>I started walking away being all smug with my <em>&#8220;I know technology, don&#8217;t go suggesting stupid things like that&#8221;<\/em> attitude&#8230; then I froze in my tracks after a few meters.<!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\nWhat the guy was trying to say suddenly sank in.<\/p>\n<p>HDMI cables are basically cables that have channels for video <em>and<\/em> audio. 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And finally, there&#8217;s also no &#8220;risk&#8221; of damaging the equipment since it&#8217;s <em>just data<\/em> &#8211; the power\/mains is totally separate from the equation.<\/p>\n<p>After my Joey Tribbiani moment, I went back and told the guy that I finally got what he was saying. We agreed that at the very least, there&#8217;s <em>one more<\/em> option that wouldn&#8217;t hurt to try; if it doesn&#8217;t work, then I could return the items for a refund.<\/p>\n<p>So I got two HDMI to DVI converters, and a 5 meter HDMI cable &#8211; essentially reconstructing a single DVI-DVI cable with HDMI as the wire, and DVI as the heads. 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A guy from one of the shops asked me if &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/06\/how-could-i-have-missed-that\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Could I Have Missed That!?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}