S-Video cabling

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  • bill
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  16 years ago
  Sat, Dec 17, 2005 11:43 AM

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.

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  • Phil Allison
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  16 years ago
  Sat, Dec 17, 2005 1:16 PM

"bill"

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** Regular S-Video cable should be OK to a couple of hundred metres.
Any good 75 ohm co-ax is fine.

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** Piece of cake.
........ Phil

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  • FruitLoop
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  Sun, Dec 18, 2005 7:34 AM

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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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projectors,

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quality

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because

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  • atec
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  Sun, Dec 18, 2005 7:44 AM

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use at a minimum RG6 quad or better should work assuming your construction/ crimps is up to scratch

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  • Phil Allison
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  16 years ago
  Sun, Dec 18, 2005 7:50 AM

"FruitLoop"

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** Since it began.

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** Nope - twin 75 ohm co-ax.
....... Phil

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  • Poxy
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  16 years ago
  Sun, Dec 18, 2005 12:01 PM

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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.

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  • David
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  16 years ago
  Tue, Dec 27, 2005 9:23 AM

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I wonder if a video transmitter/receiver would be better?

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  • Poxy
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  Tue, Dec 27, 2005 12:39 PM

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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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