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In Reply to: Re: The best S-Video cable for a high-end home theater? posted by Joe Murphy Jr on January 05, 2001 at 18:25:57:
Certainly the finest video cable I've used. Tried one of their lesser brethren and returned it -- noisy, unwatchable. But the M1000SV is great in my system, and relatively cheap, too.
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Was using the M1000SV (one metre) when I switched my system around and had to go to a 7 metre run. Ended up buying 7 metre of Tributaries basic (they say S-Video runs into signal loss at 15 feet) for less than the price of the 1 metre of Monster and honestly feel the base Tributaries (even at 7 metres compared to 1) is a better cable. The top of the line Tributaries S cable can probably be had for about $70 or $80 I would guess, the base at around $40. I wouldn't buy any other video cable.
I defer to your experience here. I have not used the Tributaries S-video cables. There are two M1000SV's in my system: Pioneer DV-05 dvd player to a Denon AVR-3300 receiver, receiver to an older Hitachi 27" TV. Perhaps on my small set the differences between Monster and Tributaries wouldn't be noticed, though I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.Also, could you outline your signal path? My next purchase will likely be a large screen TV, and if I'll get better results with different cables, I have no qualms about upgrading. Have you tried component cables, and if so, what kind of results did you see?
I'm also using a small set, a 27" Proscan with the S-Video coming from an RCA 5223P DVD player. I do believe the 1000SV to be a very good S-Video cable, it was a pretty dramatic improvement over the Acoustic Research cable I upgraded from. But even with a 7 metre run of the Tributaries that I paid $60 for on the 27" Proscan, I saw marginal improvement from the Tributaries, colors seemed to be a little more vivid and better saturated and there seemed to be better definition, particularly noticeable in "dark" scenes. Monster has a new cable out, the 2000SV, supposedly even better than the 1000; I guess what I'm saying is that the Tributaries appears to be slightly better cable than the Monster at a much better price. My TV doesn't have component inputs, so my component experience is limited. I did, however, buy a set of base Tributaries component cables for $50 for a friend with a Toshiba SD 1600 and the 40 inch widescreen HD Toshiba TV as a gift (if you can believe it, he had it hooked up with coax!). I watched scenes from "The Thin Red Line" (a movie that I got for free with my DVD player) after hooking the component cables up to his set and it was pretty wild. It was almost like watching a different film! There was color and detail in abundance that I just don't see on my TV, but to be fair, his Toshiba set costs about 5 times as much as my Proscan! In any event, the Tributaries have a very good reputation (although not particularly well known) for their video cables. You might want to look at their web site, which has prices posted that are higher than I paid. If you want, you can e-mail me and I'll let you know who I bought from (over the net). Regards
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