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Has anyone got a link or made their own S-video cable?

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DrumAnBass:

50 ft s-video for $24:

http://www.pacificcable.com/S_Video.htm

Hoopz:

This may be a stupid question but I am not very famillar with video cables.  Is there any loss of signal for an extended legnth like this?

whammoed:

CableWholesale has some too:
http://www.cablewholesale.com/catalog/s-videocables.htm

Drew, are you just trying to save $12 bucks by making one or are there other reasons?

DrumAnBass:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video :

"S-Video signals tend to degrade considerably when transmitted across more than 5 meters of cable with some cheaper S-Video cables."

DrewKaree:

Yes, but the site I saw laid out how to do it using shielded Cat5 cable and had no noticeable signal degradation until they hit the 50-60 foot mark.  At 50, the "purist" type person started to dislike the signal, but everyone could agree that 60' was the limit for the cable.  This was for S-video only.

The reason they were using Cat5 was its ease of running it through walls.

That's what I'm really looking for - diagrams/examples of creating my own cable.  I know I could buy something, but I've got other uses I want to use the Cat5 cable for, and the places I've seen that sell the stuff I need have a smallest-size of a 250' spool.  I have a use for that much, but without the diagrams/examples of the S-video, there's 75' going to waste.  Obviously I can find some future use for it, but I was really hoping to find that damn web page again.  There were some other VGA hacks I was considering on there too.

And to probably derail this thread and pray I find an answer to all these questions.....anyone use an online bookmark "service" that they like?  Chipmark seems to suck big time, and I don't want to have this happen again. 

Oh, and that S-video balun WOULD work, but if I have to shell out money to buy one of those things, I'd just rather sink that money into more cable or connectors.

Thanks so far for all the help guys.  I'm hoping someone amongst us has the silver bullet I'm looking for


--- Quote from: whammoed on December 09, 2005, 01:40:13 pm ---Drew, are you just trying to save $12 bucks by making one or are there other reasons?

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Man, I'm lagging from being up so friggen long!  I just realized my post didn't go through cuz you answered!

Yeah, the money isn't really the issue, in fact, the cable isn't all that cheap.  Ease of pulling through walls and running audio as well are the reasons I'm looking for this again.  I just also happen to have a use for an S-video cable and figured I'd kill 2 birds with one stone

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