Over at Create Digital Motion a while ago there was a post about Better quality projection over longer wires: S-Video to CAT5 Baluns

A staple of the security industry, video baluns allow you to send S-Video, Composite, Component or even VGA signals through normal CAT5 ethernet cable. This allows a far greater cable run with less loss of quality. They‘re reasonably inexpensive and since discovering them I’ve taken a couple and a hefty coil of CAT5 to every gig, locally and internationally. They've saved my signal many times, both from the ignominy of composite and the embarassment of "What? The stage manager didn‘t say that you’d have to bring your own cable for the projector? Well no, we do‘t make the DJ bring his own speakers and hook up foldback 15 minutes before the doors upen, but you’re a VJ, you should be used to backbreaking toil and endless disappointment."

To Anglicise it a little:

These are VGA versions (£ 105 + VAT), you can also get any number of variations of s-video, component video etc. A good UK supplier seems to be CyberSelect.

(Via Create Digital Motion.)

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