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Today at Sam's Club I found this set of cables from Philips:
You get a six foot length of each: "S" Cable ; Stereo Audio ; Stereo Audio with Compoite (RCA) Video ; Component Cable ; and Optical Audio. The package runs $47 and seems like a pretty good deal to me.
The cables themselves seem pretty good:
I have a multitester; maybe I should figure out how to us it to test cables??!!
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If they pass an electrical signal with extremely low capacitance, inductance, and resistance, I'd say you're good. I will also point out that that's an awful lot of packaging...
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About the packaging, they really try to make it difficult to pocket all the cables and tell security "Yes, I'm just happy to see you" on your way out.
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That is very true... but still!
I think the actual reason for it is so things fit on the shelf in those cardboard display boxes. Sort of like the old cardboard CD cases.
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Mark, Ken is right. If its copper (except for the optical) and the connectors are decent quality you should be OK. I'm wondering if you will need all of the cables in the bundle. If not, you end up buying something you don't need.
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What a BEAUTIFUL setup, Mark. I'll bet you spent half a day straightening things up so they looked so neat for that photo. If you're gonna tell me you ALWAYS keep things that neat, I'm gonna have to hate you!
Jack
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i have to agree with jack.. that sure is an awful cool lookin set-up ya got there.. i have NO idea what all of it does, but its still pretty cool lookin..
wheres the 'begin ignition sequence' button?
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In reply to:
If you're gonna tell me you ALWAYS keep things that neat, I'm gonna have to hate you!
Start hatin'!
Yeah, I really DO keep my office pretty neat, as I have clients in it pretty frequently. Unfortunately, this means that I often have to grab a pile of papers off my other desk and stick them in my "currents" (as in "current stuff" drawer of my desk. After awhile, it goes to a box, and right now I have three bins of stuff to go through and file, etc....
All this time spent with my HT setup really IS killing me! I'm gonna have to pay for it soon!
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I have no idea what that setup is intended to do, but I must have one just like it. It looks very professionally driven and very capable to support your photographic/video career.
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