I would recommend the cable from Ethereal availiable from Digital Connections. It is much fatter and as anyone familiar with loss in cables, loss is inversely proportional to volume so a big fat cable will be lower loss than a skinny one. They are selling them for $109. I am using it althogh I am not driving it with the 990 but with the 1 in 2 out amplifer that they sell. My projector is old and I find this solved another problem I had but it may also help drive the long cable.