On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:22:38 +1300 Wayne Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:51, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > > > I have 3/4 of a drum of steel core coax cable left (already used heaps with > > a multi-channel aerial, Sky dish, 6 way splitter then 8 TV outlets) > > >3 separate coax cables to each multimedia computer for Video plus 2x audio. > > Using steel core coax for video is not such a good idea. Video signal is > only > one volt peak-to-peak and it soon vanishes when pushed through a long run of > steel cored coax. > > It was recommended in an article in the Electrolink magazine earlier in the > year to convert the video to RF because you could then push that through as > much coax as you like. I understood that the conversion from baseband to RF (and back again) caused degradation, which is why the better practice is to connect your VCR to your TV via the composite rather than the aerial connection. > > wayne -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
