All common video signal types--composite, RF, s-video, component, SDI, and the various flavors of RGB--are ordinarily run in coaxial cables, or, as the shorthand term goes, "coax." The features of ...

So, what’s in a video cable? When reading descriptions of home theater cable products off of packages in a big-box store, or off of websites online, it’s sometimes hard to get a clear understanding of ...

Component video cable, in just a few years, has gone from being a relatively uncommon and esoteric way to hook up video devices to being the near-universal analog video signal standard for home ...

TVs have come a long way in the last few years and HDMI cables have kept pace. Here's what you should know about buying video cables for your TV, including why a cheap cable usually provides the same ...

How you connect the Xbox 360 to your TV could mean the difference between brilliant visuals and mediocre picture quality. If you have an HDTV you're going to want to use component cables to hook up ...

Belden 1872A MediaTwist Cat 6 cable. Last month, we covered unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) to carry audio. The highest-quality UTP is computer cable, premise/data cable. It's called Cat 5, Cat 5e or ...

Once upon a time (OK, it was last week) while connecting a new monitor to a computer, I learned something the hard way about video cables and connectors. You can learn the easy way. The computer, a ...

Being the powerful Computer Entertainment System that it is, the PlayStation 2 might cause some confusion for people that are only used to dealing with simple Game Consoles like the PlayStation. In ...

Cable management is for tryhards. That’s what I told myself until a couple of weeks ago, when I again found myself parting the great, tangled seafloor of ethernet cables to vacuum my office. Whereas ...

My dad is upgrading to HDTV in the next few days, and one thing I'm wondering about is how many new cables to buy. We have a progressive scan DVD player, and lots of RCA cables. Would it be possible ...