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Home Theater Experts: help with Component Cables!

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lancestorm

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I need to buy component cables. I currently own some component cables made by Acoustic Research which I got from Best Buy. Worked for me! However now I need some cables much longer. About 30 feet in length to be exact!! Where online could I find a REASONABLY priced component cable at this length. I went to bluejeanscable and they wanted like $50 - 70 I think...woah. So, any other ideas?

NO, I do not want to make my own.
 
Even radioshack component cables are expensive, i think 6ft was $30, the monster cables were only an extra 5 bucks, so I got those.
 
Making your own is the only way to do it cheap.

The problem is you're looking at 90 feet of 75 ohm coax, 6 RCA terminators, cable wrap, labor, etc. Even DIY is going to be in the $50-70 range with decent connectors.

http://www.markertek.com/Product.asp?baseItem=P%2DP%2DV%2D3&cat=CABLESCONN&subcat=VIDEOCAB&prodClass=VRCARCA&mfg=&search=0&off=

You might try those. Cheap & simple, but it should work.

For DIY:

100' roll of standard 75 ohm video cable is $19
6 decent quality RCA connectors = $30

You're looking at $50 with no heat shrinking, plus you'd have to do all the labor.

Bluejeanscable sounds like a great deal at that price.

[EDIT]Just checked myself, bluejeanscable wants $109 for 30 foot... That's more reasonable considering the cost of materials & labor.[/EDIT]

Bottom line is 30 feet is a long cable & it's going to be expensive.

Viper GTS
 
I picked up a 20' cable from s-video.com and it runs from my Denon receiver to my X1 projector...I haven't had a single complaint yet from anybody who has watched LOTR on my wall. The 30' is $29.95.
 
A 30 foot cable is simply going to be expensive. And I could be wrong, but there will probably be severe signal degradation over that kind of distance.

Why exactly do you need such long cables?
 
I recently bought 30' of component cabling and ended up getting it from bluejeans.

I looked at cablestogo, ram electronics and a few other places but wound up getting it at bluejeans.

Try AVS forum. They might have more suggestions.
 
You might want to get a DVI or HDMI cable too so you won't have to do it later.

That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm going to run component, vga, dvi and s-video in my wall for my projector.
 
Originally posted by: lancestorm
I don't really see a point in running DVI...too expensive and I can use component for my HDTV channels.
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My DVI cable cost less than my component cables.

DVI-D is digital and by all accounts looks better than component. I don't see why you wouldn't want to put it in just for future proofing sake.
 
Originally posted by: KpocAlypse
Now this is tempting
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My brothers house is wired with twisted pair. He uses it to play movies all over his house and in the pool house from a central set up of 4 DVD changers. His house is huge, too. A full 1/10th of a mile long.

It works great.
 
Originally posted by: lancestorm
The other is that I don't know what conduit I can use for all these cables.... how are you doing that???
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That's what I'm trying to figure out 😀

I'm thinking I'll find a fat enough pvc pipe or something and thread it through then spackle it. I've been to HD many times and have not been able to find a cover that would work. Doing just component is easy bc you can get a blank panel and drill it. The DVI is the hard one though.
 
Originally posted by: SethK28
can you use normal RCA cable for component? If not what is the difference b/t the two?
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RCA is just the connector on the end.

What you're probably referring to is the cheapie red/white RCA pair that comes with most DVD players. While yes it will work (you'll get a picture), video coax is SUPPOSED to be 75 ohm. The yellow one that comes with such cheap sets is 75 ohm cable, the red/white pair are not.

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Originally posted by: lancestorm
The other is that I don't know what conduit I can use for all these cables.... how are you doing that???
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That's what I'm trying to figure out 😀

I'm thinking I'll find a fat enough pvc pipe or something and thread it through then spackle it. I've been to HD many times and have not been able to find a cover that would work. Doing just component is easy bc you can get a blank panel and drill it. The DVI is the hard one though.
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With DVI that's exactly what I was going to do. Cut the pvc to slide the cable in because i can't find a pvc pipe that will work that is also wide enough to allow such a big end connector on the dvi to pass through. grrr
 
I've found places that sell DVI plates but they are pretty expensive. I don't think I'm going to go that route just for aesthetic reasons only.
 
Hang out on the loading dock of a local TV station
Buddy up with an engineer, slide him a case of beer.
He will make your cables from stolen parts from his work.
(Tell him you need 1694A)
 
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