Looking for cheap 10m+ Scart Leads - Any suggestions?

geoffgeoff

Can anyone recommend where to buy cheap but not poor quality long length scart leads? I can only seem to find max 3m leads in local shops. Is this as long as they get? I need about 10m ones as my TV is now mounted an the wall above fireplace and is now some distance from my DVD player and Sky box.

Any suggestions?

Bought this one in the end, figured at £23 if was worth a try!
http://www.thatcable.com/acatalog/info_Loops_scart_male_to_scart_male.html

googler

Move the DVD player and Sky Box to within 3m?

Take a trip in a time machine to before the time when you put the TV on the wall, and keep it within reach of the DVD player and Sky box....

This place has them in 20m lengths - first result in a google for 'maximum scart length' .....

http://www.cables2u.co.uk/scart-c-28.html?gclid=CPmOgIeC3KQCFU0_4wodQECyMA

Freddie_Snowbits

Sky box and still using a SCART Lead, One ponders whether the Grammaphone still plays 78's.

No, Go digital my son

almillar

As above, if you've got a new TV you might want to upgrade and get yourself HDMI cables if any of your boxes are capable, and you might be able to find an upscaling DVD player for not much more than a decent long SCART would cost you anyway. SCART really does suffer with length and HDMI does much less.

googler

Freddie_Snowbits wrote: »

Sky box and still using a SCART Lead, One ponders whether the Grammaphone still plays 78's.

No, Go digital my son

The OP wants cheap cable, not a full upgrade of the whole system.

Honestly, did you upgrade your box, just so's you could use HDMI? Or did you start using HDMI when you happened to replace the box?

sarahmurphymoo

i think (but can't be certain) that here at work, we use something that converts scart into the RJ45 cables (standard pc network cables) and back again. You can then run a massively long cable, that is about half the diamater of a standard scart one, and much more flexible - you can probably even run it under your skirting boards quite easy.

not googled it yet, but i'm certain they exist..... somewhere

John_Gray

googler wrote: »

This place has them in 20m lengths - first result in a google for 'maximum scart length' .....
http://www.cables2u.co.uk/scart-c-28.html?gclid=CPmOgIeC3KQCFU0_4wodQECyMA

This could be the one for you! Well worth £92 of anyone's money!

And this one must be Even Better at £271 - it even out-monsters Monster's prices! "High Grade PC Oxygen Free Copper combines with Aluminium-Mylar foil wrap and Oxygen Free Copper braid ensuring stunning, interference free high-resolution imaging. Gold Plated solid cast connectors further ensure a low-resistance interface."

Interesting that Wikipedia says that the maximum Scart cable length is "estimated to be about 10-15m"...

geoffgeoff

You can never get a straight answer from you lot can you!

Thanks for the links etc. will certainly check them all out!

John_Gray

My last sentence was fairly straight, wasn't it? :A

Hammyman

If you're wanting 10 metres, the last thing you want to be buying is cheap ones. At those lengths there's going to be all kinds of funky crosstalk going on with a cheap set.

aliEnRIK

I cant attest to how it will affect the signal at 10m, but THAT CABLE make very good cables

http://www.thatcable.com/acatalog/info_Loops_scart_male_to_scart_male.html