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To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Actually, there is some impedance matching. I've seen monitors with
> hi/lo impedance switches. And I've used 15 m long high-quality VGA
> cables. The result has been pretty good.
> 

The best I've seen is to use Sun D-sub coax or plain coax inputs on the 
monitors that have them.  Those are impedance matched and can be 
extended without problem.

	-hpa

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