Will video quality transmitted from HDMI to VGA suffer?

Question

I'm wanting to connect a dvd player(hdmi) to a ceiling mounted projector(vga). Will the conversion degrade the quality of the picture? The two devices are about 30 feet apart, so I figure, get the shortest hdmi cable I can, connect it to the conversion box and run the rest of the length with vga. Would this length deteriorate the signal?

Answer 1

It will work, but why don't you just use the component output to VGA?  No conversion, no loss of quality.