Will Binegar
12-25-07, 11:21 PM
Merry Christmas All!
I hope you've all had a great holiday!
Mine has been wonderful, but it would be even better if I could get my new C3X-E and Toshiba XA2 to play nice. A little history: I've been using the XA2 with an Infocus 7210 using an HDMI-DVI adapter at the XA2 and DVI-M1 adapter at the 7210 with no problems. The DVI cable is 10 meters. The C3X-E is going to be mounted about 16" further back, so I was planning on chucking the adapters and installing a 35 foot HDMI cable. I bought Blue Jeans top of the line BJC Series 1 cable, which is HDMI 1.3a (CTS 1.3b1) certified. I bought two because I also wanted to run HDMI from my DIRECTV HD Tivo box (10-250). I tried the first cable and got a No Signal message from the C3X. I then tried a 5 foot length of Blue Jeans cheaper cable and it worked. So then I tried the other 35 footer and it worked. I think I must have tried the first 35 footer again and it failed. After that, I couldn't get any of the cables to work, not even the short one. I tried powering down the C3X, in hopes that maybe that would resolve some handshake issue, but that didn't do the trick.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I remember that there was a trick to getting HDMI to work with the Anthem D2, so I'm wondering if there is a procedure one must follow to get the Sim2 to handshake and recognize the signal. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Will
I hope you've all had a great holiday!
Mine has been wonderful, but it would be even better if I could get my new C3X-E and Toshiba XA2 to play nice. A little history: I've been using the XA2 with an Infocus 7210 using an HDMI-DVI adapter at the XA2 and DVI-M1 adapter at the 7210 with no problems. The DVI cable is 10 meters. The C3X-E is going to be mounted about 16" further back, so I was planning on chucking the adapters and installing a 35 foot HDMI cable. I bought Blue Jeans top of the line BJC Series 1 cable, which is HDMI 1.3a (CTS 1.3b1) certified. I bought two because I also wanted to run HDMI from my DIRECTV HD Tivo box (10-250). I tried the first cable and got a No Signal message from the C3X. I then tried a 5 foot length of Blue Jeans cheaper cable and it worked. So then I tried the other 35 footer and it worked. I think I must have tried the first 35 footer again and it failed. After that, I couldn't get any of the cables to work, not even the short one. I tried powering down the C3X, in hopes that maybe that would resolve some handshake issue, but that didn't do the trick.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I remember that there was a trick to getting HDMI to work with the Anthem D2, so I'm wondering if there is a procedure one must follow to get the Sim2 to handshake and recognize the signal. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Will