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Old 26th July 2004, 04:21 PM
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Default Where to buy a cheap, long, S-Video cable in UK?

Can anyone point in the direction of a good, cheap, 10metre-ish long S-Video cable!??? The longest I've seen on the high street so far is only a few metres... or just a SVGA cable would do as a second option...

Also one other question which is not as straightforward, I'm doing visuals in a club which is very long and narrow, and has projectors at each end which must be at least 30metres apart. Is there any way to remotely send a video signal from one to the other, so they both show the same picture? (Kinda like those radio transmitter things you get to send a TV signal to another set in your house). I guess you could get a long lead to connect up the 2nd screen but dont feel this would be practical as it is so damn far away!

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James.
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Old 27th July 2004, 12:47 PM
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We regularly use long composite video cables over distances up to and beyond 30m.

We've never used S-Video that long (our longest is 20m), but I know of people who do use long s-video runs.

You really shouldn't buy cable on the high street - you'll end up with overpriced, low quality cables.
cpc is a good source for cheap cables in a variety of lengths.

I wouldn't recommend using a video transmitter - at cheap prices, they are just not good enough to work in the EMF-heavy environment that clubs provide.

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Old 27th July 2004, 01:27 PM
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For the sort of lengths your talking 20m+ your best bet is to use a coaxial multicore (Van-damme) with BNC ends and then use a four pole S-vid to bnc adapter on each end. this way you'll double the effective range of S-Vid or Y/C signals which are only designed to work over about 28m of standard cable.

As getting the same image at both ends, kramer make a 1in-3 out Y/C distrubution amp. they retail at about ?100.

VDC Tradig will supply all the cables you want pretty cheap (good tech advice too !)

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