[AG-TECH] S-video cables

[George Estes]

Buy the best cable you can, shielding and construction is most important.
For any cable run over 5m you should use an s-video line amplifier.
George

At 03:17 PM 6/7/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On doing some research into s-video cables, I've noticed that there seem to
>be a wide variety of options, e.g. plated copper alloy  for the lead, gold
>plated contacts, etc. To go with this, there are a wide variety of prices!
>I've also been told that the mid-priced leads can't really be used over more
>than 5m. I know that we can spend a few hundreds of pounds to get very high
>quality stuff.
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>Can anyone provide any recommendations/guidance on this subject? E.g should
>I just go for the cheapest and limit the distance between PC and cameras? Or
>are these no good anyway?
>
>Thanks in advance.
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