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Old 06-09-2003, 08:44 PM   #3 of 8
Bob McElfresh
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Al, I strongly suggest you be nice about it and have them run a set of Component cables as well. (The world is moving towards component connections anyway.)

If you contact www.bluejeanscables.com, I believe they will sell you 2 runs of 3-conductor cable:

- 1 set of component video cables (with the wonderful Canare coax & connectors).

- 1 set of 3-conductor component video cables made with Belden RG59, but one wire with RCA plugs for Composite, and 2 of the wires soldered into SVideo plugs. You have to go with the RG59 because of the size. The RG6 just does not fit well.

This will give you all 3 video connection types. You will never regret the extra capacity.

Note: Svideo connectors are a pain to connect to wires. While you can do your own RCA plugs, SVideo takes some skill/experience to do correctly. There was a white-paper floating around a few years ago advising even DIY cable builders to not even bother with SVideo unless they were experienced electronic techs.

Short Advice: No way in he-- should you let some fumble-fingered construction worker attach SVideo connectors even to true SVideo cable. Buy the cable with the connectors attached from a custom site and make the workers fish it through for you.
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