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In Reply to: RE: what are the digital llimits of a single conducter? posted by cloudwalker on September 20, 2016 at 23:13:55
In some sets of composite wires (red/white/yellow), the yellow (video) wire is a heavier gauge (I am guessing 16 or 14 gauge), and that is what I am using. I can ask at stores, but I doubt they would know either. I will probably have to call a manufacturer...
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When you are looking at a red/white/yellow cable, that is composite video on the yellow and left/right audio on the white/red (normally). The video cable is shielded, so seems heavier.
If you insist on an analog connection, you should be using component video cables, where all three are identical coax conductors, to carry the three independent colors to your display.
But HDMI is so much more capable, and so much easier to connect, it is hard to understand why people use anything else these days for video.
But, whatever! Enjoy your system.
Cerebrate!
I use this for audio only. I do use component cables for video.
There are many problems with HDMI cables as I see it
1) if you use HDMI to the TV, you also get a un needed audio signal there (You want the receiver to do the decoding to get separate audio signals to each speaker)
2) the HDMI connection was designed poorly and comes out to easily
3) Some receivers are "pass trough" only, or worse yet, onlyfor the audio signal. You want the receiver to do the decoding for separate audio signals.
4) I do not like the trend of newer Blu Ray players have of only having only an HDMI jack...I like choices
5) People like to buy receivers or amps with HDMI jacks. Why? The more components a signal passes through, the worse it becomes.
You can send analog or digital signals through it and, depending on the design and construction it will do either, well or poorly.As for your damnation of HDMI, it is not entirely warranted.
Point 1: You do not necessarily get audio on it (if it is sent by a receiver that is doing the audio processing) but there's no harm if it is there.
Point 2: True but there are solutions to reinforce the connection. I use latching HDMI connectors.
Point 3: Only old and cheezy AVRs are that way. Anything bought in the past 5-6 years will do better unless it was bought in a pawn shop.
Point 4: Yes, it is better to have more choices but you have to pay for them.
Point 5: These days, the signals are all digital (except for LPs). So, keeping them digital as long as possible up to the point making sound (at the speaker) or picture (at the display), the better the outcome. Analog connections/processing encumber noise and distortion.
Edits: 09/23/16
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