Long S-Video lead query

[Nhoj]

I'm considering the following set-up:

Having a long s-video lead from my living room to my spare room (under the floor boards) - connecting my a/v amp to a hollywood dv bridge then into my mac.

The lead would be about 15-20 feet. Would this cause any degrigation in the picture?

I plan to capture TV programs in iMovie and burn to VCD with Toast.

[Mirror_Image]

As long as it is a good cable, something like these:

http://www.s-video.com/mogami4u.html

There shouldn't be any noticeable degradation over just 20 feet.

[Dragonsf]

As long as you stay below 5m (16feet), you should not have any problems.But maybe you need some shielding at one side of the cable.

[BJ_M]

if you use seperate cables like belden 8281 or rg6 or canare cable for each of the y and c componets , you can run s-video 100' or more without a video amp in line.

each side must be the same lenth , basicly to do this you get a s-video male to bnc x 2 adaptor at both ends ..

video cable is always shielded

[Dragonsf]

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video cable is always shielded

I meant that extra shielding (I don't know the exact name): it's some ferrit mantle around the cable.

[dmonty]

One more option....

If you need to run longer than 16FT I would recommend converting the S-Video cable to BNC or coaxial cable which can be run over much longer distances.

Here is one from Smarthome: http://www.smarthome.com/7817.html

Radeo Shack may also have it...


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