Very Thin/ Small Component Cable

[ParkerAudio]

Not sure if I am posting this in the right spot, but anyway. Does anyone know where I can buy a very thin composite cable. I bought a new place and it has a fairly small tube for running wires, probably 3/4 inch in diameter. I need to be able to run the red, green, blue, right and left through it.
I know what everyone is thinking, why aren't you just using a HDMI cable. Well, the stupid cable company doesn't have that kind of connection on back of their Motorola Moxi box.
Open to any other solutions. Like is there a way to convert component cable to HDMI? I don't think there is but throwing it out there.

 

[MDS]

If your receiver can trancode component video to HDMI then you could just connect the component video from the cable box to the receiver and use one HDMI cable from the receiver to the display.

 

[ParkerAudio]

As this is a lake house, I am not going for the full surround sound effect. No receiver. Just the Motorola Cable box and a PS3 hooked up to a 46 inch sony flat panel above the fireplace.
It is new construction, so it is nice that they made an effort to put the pipe in, but why such a small diameter.
I am trying to avoid drilling new holes from the drywall enclosed book case where the components reside to the back of the TV, but that might be unaviodable.
Wireless connections need to hurry up and get here.

 

[tomd51]

Component Video Balun

While not the cheapest solution, you could use two of these and run a Cat5 cable that should fit:

You can also look here in the event you need audio (RCA and digital) as well as video component... -TD

 

[ParkerAudio]

Thanks Tom that is within reason, I would much rather use something like that then start cutting up new drywall. Great idea.

 

[tomd51]

NP, glad to help!

I wish I'd seen it before I made some runs, would've made life a bit easier... -TD

 

[bandphan]

There are balluns for hdmi, dig audio, analog audio, ir ect...

 

[Halon451]

Gefen also makes a very wide variety of such extenders and video over Cat 5e (Component, VGA, DVI, etc.); they tend to be a bit on the pricey side though, but they work very well.

This one's about 200 bucks.

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=3960

 

[jcPanny]

Rapid run

Check out the rapid run system from impact acoustics. It would be perfrect for you application with 3/4" conduit. A single runner cable can accomodate the audio and video connections from your receiver/source to the display.
They also have a runner cable for HDMI.

http://www.impactacoustics.com/rapidrun/RunnerBaseCables.asp?

 

[BMXTRIX]

How about running cabling yourself and terminating the cable yourself?

All these solutions are fairly expensive, but when they ran your phone lines, Ethernet lines, and cable lines in your home, all those wall plates and connectors weren't already on the ends of the cables before they were run! The ends of cabling, including RCA connectors, are fairly easy to put on and there are even some products out there which basically require no tools at all. Just a pair of decent scissors and a small flat head screwdriver can do the trick.

This is what I would recommend...
http://www.planetwaves.com/ce_home.html

I use these for about 1/4 of all my cabling in my home and on several of the installations I have done. More often, I use mini-RGB cabling from extron, but this is more difficult to terminate and requires some specialty tools.

Likewise, if you only have 3/4" conduit, you can't actually FIT HDMI through it. HDMI has a requirement for a minimum 7/8" conduit - go figure, the most common home conduit it 3/4"... 1/8" to small.

So, for the money, and for the quality, I would not get a CAT-5 balun, but would use decent coaxial cables from Planet Waves. You can pick up specific lengths online, like at eBay. PM me if you have a specific question.

I know that this is a product that Audioholics has seen, and when I asked about it they gave a fairly postive review to me which led me to start using the product.