Question about Video Cable Quality

Hey guys so recently I’ve been trying to preserve a few laserdiscs as well as capture a few movies from my DVR I was wondering what a really good quality RCA cable would be because as of now I’ve just done some tests with generic ones and im not very satisfied with the quality, my LD player only has RCA and no s-video and my DVR only has RCA and HDMI out but since I don’t have a way to capture HDMI at the moment I have no choice but to use RCA cables also the picture seems to look washed out could better cables fix this, Im not asking for Blu-Ray quality (not yet anyway, that’s will happen later) but at least a crisper picture

Thanks 😃

Jp4195 said:

I was wondering what a really good quality RCA cable would be

You can’t do better than: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/composite/index.htm

With that being said, the most important factor in getting a good LD picture is the player you’re using. LD video, as you know, is analog and not all players are created equal. An excellent composite video cable can help prevent factors outside of the player from having an impact on the picture quality, but it can’t improve the picture quality of a shitty player or a player that is out of alignment.

Also, LD video is stored on the disc in composite form. The s-video output on all LD players therefore uses a builtin (old and no longer top performing) comb filter IC. 99.9% of the time you’ll get better results with composite and an external comb filter, such as the one in your display.

My player is a Pioneer LD-V2200, I got it a while back and have since learnt a bit about LD but I haven’t found a lot of info on this model, is it a decent model or is it more of a low end one ?

http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_ld-v2200/pioneer_ld-v2200.htm

Jp4195 said:

is it a decent model or is it more of a low end one ?

It’s simultaneously decent and low-end. Decent because it’s industrial, so it’s more robust than other players of its time, but low-end because it has the PQ of a low-end player.

Ultimately, it comes down to (1) what your goals are and (2) how much you’re willing to invest.

hmmm well mostly I just want to transfer LD to DVD/Blu-ray and have the quality of the source LD or a little better

So you should buy a better player; a great NTSC (not MUSE) player could be found for about 500$, less if you are lucky.

heh thanks for the info, I’ll keep an eye out