Cables To Go - 28012 - 10ft Pro Series HD15 M/M SVGA Monitor Cable with Ferrites (Black)

by Cables To Go

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002J28NQ
• Item model number: 28012
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (243 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #30 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Cables > Computer
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 19, 2004

Product Description

Cables To Go Pro Series UXGA Monitor Coaxial Cable 28012 Cables

Customer Reviews

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142 of 145 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Use from laptop to LCD TV!, June 26, 2008

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G. Martin "soixantaine" (Glendale, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cables To Go - 28012 - 10ft Pro Series HD15 M/M SVGA Monitor Cable with Ferrites (Black) (Personal Computers)

Like I write in the title I use this from my laptop to 32" LCD TV! Only reason to do so is to play Netflix instant movies from the "net" without having to watch them on the laptop's 15" screen! At 10' I can pretty much place the laptop anywhere I choose.
You'll need a 3.5 stereo audio cable to tranfer the sound. It plugs into the earphone jack on the laptop.

You could just as easily do the same thing with your desktop PC to your LCD TV, so long as you have the connectors match up.

Lastly, it is a way to use your TV as a monitor, whether or not you play movies.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Using HDTV as my laptop monitor, July 17, 2007

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Kevin Barmish "Kevin" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cables To Go - 28012 - 10ft Pro Series HD15 M/M SVGA Monitor Cable with Ferrites (Black) (Personal Computers)

This wire allows my Dell Inspiron 9300 to use my Samsung HLS-5679W 56" LED Engine 1080p DLP HDTV as its monitor in full 1920x1080 resolution.
Great price, great product.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not support EDID (Detection of video modes), adds ghosting, March 7, 2011

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David Moore (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cables To Go - 28012 - 10ft Pro Series HD15 M/M SVGA Monitor Cable with Ferrites (Black) (Personal Computers)

If you are looking to extend the length of your computer's LCD monitor, DO NOT BUY THIS CABLE.

I work in IT and needed to extend the cable length of a client's monitor to reach around their desk to connect to a Windows 7 machine. VGA uses a feature called EDID ([..]) which allows the computer to automatically detect the available resolutions your monitor supports. This cable apparently does not fully support EDID data and therefore does not pass the native resolution of your LCD screen to the computer. This means the computer cannot set the correct resolution of your screen to give the the sharpest picture possible, and instead chooses a generic mode that may work but usually looks terrible.

I also noticed an immediate picture degradation when plugging this cable in, with a bad ghosting effect. It may work in some situations, but you really get what you pay for. Every now and then I try to avoid this lesson, but time and time again I get a kick in the pants. Hopefully this can help you avoid a bad buy.