Mar
21
This tip is aimed at the do-it-your-selfers out there, specially the folks wiring up new homes or adding additional wiring to their existing homes. Wiring is obviously an integral part of home theater. Wireless solutions are getting better and better every day but they still have a long ways to go towards the performance of traditional hard-wired systems.
We all know that speaker cables, CAT-5 and HDMI cables need to be ran to their corresponding locations in the home theater but don’t forget the coaxial cables. Coaxial is used for cable TV and also for component video, but do you know that RG-6 and RG-59 have specific applications and aren’t (ideally anyway) always interchangeable? Most coaxial cable can be identified by reading the cables jacket but it should be easy enough to tell RG-6 from RG-59 just from the cables diameter, RG-6 should appear considerably thicker than 59.
Use RG-6 for cable TV and RG-59 for component video feeds, RG-6 has better shielding for noise rejection and tends to work better for CATV. RG-59 on the other hand is rated at 75ohms and is better suited for the individual RGB (red, green and blue) carriers of a component video cable. RG-59 is also a bit more flexible which could come in handy considering the need for three cables versus the one for a single cable TV feed.
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