Are all VGA cables made equal?

[nordloewelabs]

i need to connect a PC to an Olevia 37" LCD HDTV using the VGA port. for that, i need to get a 10 feet cable, but i dont know if all VGA cables have the same capabilities.... can a VGA cable that supports "800x600" not support "1280x1024" or "1360x768"??? by the way, the latter is the resolution of the LCD HDTV in question.

i ask this question because, while shopping for VGA cables, i came across a cable denominated UXGA.... is there such a thing? i thought the resolution displayed on a monitor depended only on the capability of the monitor itself and the graphic card to which it was connected. 😕

i wanna make sure i will not cripple the TV set by using an incorrect cable.... i could use S-VIDEO, but i've heard that S-VIDEO -- although better than COMPOSITE -- is inferior to VGA, HDMI, COMPONENT and anything else. btw, DVI is not an option here. 🙁

thanks in advance!

 

[ViRGE]

There's no such thing as a specific cable for a specific resolution. But anything analog has to deal with signal degradation, there is a difference between how well good and poor quality cables handle this, especially with long runs.

 

[Arkaign]

VGA cable will be 10x better than S-Video cable.

Get the best cable you can reasonably afford, at 10 feet you want as little signal degradation and crosstalk as possible.

This might be decent, if you want to try to save $

 

[nordloewelabs]

i got this one here.

according to the people at the AVS Forum, MonoPrice's cables are good. just to be in the safe side i chose one with more shielding. the extra audio wire will be useful to take the sound from my sound card to the TV set.