What's the maximum distance an S-video cable can run and what's the best type of cabling to use?
For my church I want to run an S-video feed to one of the FOH projectors, currently we have a composite feed running on a nice 30m length of quality shielded coax but really need to upgrade to using an S-video feed because the quality on that size screen isn't looking that nice.
"bill"
** Regular S-Video cable should be OK to a couple of hundred metres.Any good 75 ohm co-ax is fine.
** Piece of cake......... Phil
Since when was Svideo using coax ? .
I thought it is a 4 core shielded cable .
I do not know the impedance but google is your friend
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"FruitLoop"
** Since it began.** Nope - twin 75 ohm co-ax.
....... Phil
30m should be no problem - in fact you could just run another length of the same coax and terminate each end with S-Video plug to 2 x RCA adapters. You should try to make the 2 runs as close to the same length as possible.
I wonder if a video transmitter/receiver would be better?
Most only do composite, and fairly poorly at that. If you can run cable, you'll always get a better result (read: been there, tried that).
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