Various video cables > No difference in picture quality
This has nothing to do with Home Theater, but since it's TV related, I guess this is the best forum to post this in:
We all have read this before:
#1. Component cables: The best picture quality
#2. S-Video cable: So-So picture quality
#3. Composite cables: The worst picture quality
Well, I believed what I had read, so today I removed the cheap Composite video cables that I had connected to my new Panasonic 42" plasma TV and hooked up a good quality S-Video cable between the satellite TV box and the TV ... What did I find ... No difference at all that I can see.
I would have used the even better Component cables, but the satellite TV box that I have only has connections for Composite and S-Video cables, so that is my only 2 choices as far as watching regular TV from the satellite (no cable TV where I live)
I am thinking that this is the same smoke the industry blows at us consumers like a $500 set of "Boutique" RCA Audio Interconnect cables used in 2 channel Hi-Fi will sound better than a cheap set of $1.98 Walmart RCA audio patch cables.
Next I will remove the cheap Composite cables I have between the DVD player and the TV and replace it with a set of Component cables ... but I have the feeling the picture will still be the same to my "un-trained" eye.
Just wondering if any of the rest of you can actually "see" an improvement in TV picture quality by switching to the various different types of video cables?
Ron,