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Re: video cable length question

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Hi Larry,

The Video and Audio systems are not meant to be incorporated together nor do I plan on anything more than watching rented movies played on a VCR or DVD. No surround sound or anything, just a playback machine and a TV. That eliminates the concern about the long speaker wire (I went for short speaker wire and long interconnect in the audio system). But seeing some of the players out there may be a good bit better than my current cd changer (for audio purposes), I thought I'd put it by the other audio gear and run wires to the TV which could mean needing wires from 20 to 40 feet. That considers running wires along baseboards - not to mean the TV is actually 20' to 40' from the audio gear.

"direct component video cable runs(3) "

What is component video cable?

"Even with a composite run of this length"

What does composite mean?

From your description, one needs 3 runs of cable to get all the left, right, and video info from the DVD player to the TV? I guess that means DVD players don't have that coaxial output that has all the info to be sent via one cable like my VCR does, or that hook-up method is not preferred?

Thanks again for the info....





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