RE: [A bit OT] Length of cable for video

["Alex Monaghan" <alex@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks,

I'll see how he got on, was very thin cable though.

What grade cable would you suggest ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clive Haycock [mailto:Clive@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 November 2002 14:28
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Cc: 'alex@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [A bit OT] Length of cable for video
>
>
> Alex,
>          It all really
depends on the quality of the cable i.e.
> how lossy it
> is but you shouldn't have a problem over 50 metres. We regularly
send
> composite video over 100 metres with no problem. The only thing you
may
> notice is a very slight loss of chroma but you should be able to
> compensate
> for this on the projector if it is a problem
>
> Clive
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:       Alex Monaghan
[mailto:alex@xxxxxxx]
> Sent:      14 November 2002 14:18
> To:      ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject:      [ukha_d] [A bit OT] Length of
cable  for video
>
> I was approached the other day at church with a reel of thin
> screened cable
> and a couple of yellow phonos and asked how to connect them, I
> ended up with
> the job of doing it as the guy had no soldering iron :-)
>
> I suggested that it would be unlikely that the signal would be
> usable at 50
> metres as requested.
>
> What sort of length is it reasonable to expect to get a signal to run
from
> video camera to projector (and still have it watchable) ?
>
> I guess the ideal solution would be to run some cat5 and put in a
Kat5's
> either end, but the ideal solution is not always the one the techies
are
> allowed to go for :-(
>
>
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