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Re: best way to get a //c monitor cable?



Ed Eastman wrote:

>And yes, a shielded cable works far better than an unsheilded 
>one.  Go to your local electronic place and pick up an shielded RCA 
>Video cable for best results.

What am I missing here?

Virtually all RCA cables are coaxial (shielded) cables.  The ones
intended for video use usually have a lower dielectric constant
insulation between the center wire and the shield, but otherwise
there is little difference.  There is no place to connect a shield
except to the coax braid (shield) anyway.

A shorter cable will work better than an unnecessarily long
one, just because the extra capacitance lowers the bandwidth
of the video signal.

-michael

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