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In Reply to: Video cable = no improvement posted by Ed Sommer on September 23, 2002 at 10:01:55:
...you buy one frickin cable and you think you've seen it all.It seems that video is less revealing than audio when it comes to cables.
Thanks for providing the context of your evaluation which led to this pronouncement.
Tom §.
Follow Ups:
Tom, first off thanks for you patience, second I was using the S-video output of a Scientific-Atlanta digital set-top converter to feed a 32” TV. As I said, I could see no improvement with the Monster #3, over the cable, the cable TV gave me with the converter when viewing digital HBO.With audio cables I can hear differences, but I cannot see differences with video cables. Can you?
You make a sweeping generalization based on a singular event and you think I'm rude and impatient?With audio cables I can hear differences, but I cannot see differences with video cables. Can you?
Correction: you didn't see a difference with one cable in one system. That's super that you didn't see any differences *in your system*. Just don't go off and proclaim that it's a universal truth. People who use larger screen setups (front projection, rear projection, plasma) can see a *shitload* more than what they can see on a CRT (even 32"). Would you make the same proclamation on audio cables if you evaluated the cables using small boom box speakers?
The electrical parameters of cabling and more importantly the connectors in video applications have a measureable and significant effect on video quality. Pay close attention when I mention *connectors*. Most of the RCA connectors on consumer equipment are substandard and cause image degrading impedance mismatch signal reflections. There are even some video cables that are intentionally designed to alter the chroma signal delay in order to compensate for the poor performance of connectors and cheap color decoders (which are quite common even in the expensive televisions).
Keep in mind that I'm not advocating expensive=better for cables. You can put together some superior video cables for under $50 using belden 8281B cable and 75-ohm RCA's (which may take some effort to find) or BNC connectors (which are quite common and inexpensive).
There's a lot more to this than just slapping in a monster cable between a cable box and an unnamed 32" CRT.
Tom §.
Tom, since you quoted me in your text please notice that the word “I” is used, meaning “me” and only me. If you can see differences, great! I can’t, and that’s all I am saying, my results. I do work with 75 ohm cable and BNC connectors and all the other components that you have written about, but I have limited experience with S-Video cables, that is why I am posting about them, to gain other persons (like yourself) results with them.On another subject, are you really Steve Eddy? :^)
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