Posted on December 06th, 2011 in
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While almost all computer users dislike, even hate, the jumble of “spaghetti” that are the cables for computer, TV or other electronic equipment, the cables are the connecting link between your hardware. How to buy cables for computer equipment? Let’s study the language of computer data cables so that you can make intelligent purchases, secure your data and purchase the right accessories and products for your equipment.
We all realize that computers come with a specific number of ports, yet we seldom consider that every port creates a connection point, generally via cable, of one piece of hardware to another. Take the PS/2 port, for example, which connects a mouse or keyboard to the computer. The cable might be flexible, have gold connectors, and be specially treated with foil and braid shielding to lower EMI/RFI interference, which might impair the mouse’s ability to work properly.
An additional port that requires a connecting cable is the VGA port or computer video cables. This port connects the computer to the monitor and allows the operator to actually see the output. The cable needed to connect this device is a male to male extension and high resolution monitor cable with ferrite core to stop interference.
Yet, while computer cables utilized to connect printers, monitors, keyboards, etc. to the CPU are a fairly exchangeable, the more exotic uses of cables are still unknown to the majority of computer users. Look at the multimedia cable kits designed to connect the average notebook computer to a television set in order to install home entertainment systems. The cabling needed for this use includes an RCA (Composite Video) cable which offers direct connection ability to the RCA connector at the television itself. Also included in this kit would be an S-Video cable as the secondary backup, in case the television allows for the S-Video hook-up. The last cable in this kit is the S/PDIF digital audio cable which will serve as the connection for a digital audio device to produce top quality sound.
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