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

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Michael J. Mahon (mjmahon@aol.com) writes:
> 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.
> 
I figured that he was really saying make sure the cable is well shielded,
but then I too have the advantage of knowing that all such cables will
be shielded.

I've cut some RCA to RCA cables intended for audio, and they often are
not well shielded.  So a better quality cable (though we are not talking
gold plated) may be a better choice.

     Michael

> 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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