This is the 50 foot component cable I purchased from Monoprice.com Considering how hefty the cable is with 3 video and 2 audio wires, it's a great price at less than 20 bucks.
I’m running a Monoprice.com 50 foot component cable from my Dish Network box down to my home theater with very good success. I chose a 50 foot run so that my cable was long enough to connect directly from my satellite box upstairs to my AV unit downstairs without having to have termination first at a wall jack. Here’s a direct link to 50 foot component cable that I purchased from Monoprice. Too bad they don’t have an affiliate program. **sigh**
One feature common with both Dish Network and DirectTV boxes is that the boxes will allow the a/v signals to be sent out simultaneously out of different outputs. It’s the same signal of course but it does give you a poor man’s distributed audio feature. So for example in my setup, I have and HDMI out going from the Dish Network box to my plasma tv and I have the component audio and left/right rca audio out going down to my home theater across the 50 foot component cable run.
If you’re worried about the video quality on such a long component cable run, for me, I’m getting an ever so faint ground loop issue with scrolling horizontal lines but it’s barely visible certainly not bad enough to do anything about it. Again, it is *barely* visible and only on solid black screens. For moving images, I don’t notice it. My guess is that the ground loop problem is caused because power to my box upstairs is on a different grounding path than my home theater power downstairs.
Overall, this was a cheap and simple solution that allows me to push audio and video from my Dish Network DVR down to my home theater.
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