This week on episode 106 of the Coolness Roundup, Stephen and Charlie laugh at the idea of $7250 speaker cables, talk up the Zune from Microsoft, and discuss the recent court win by the RIAA. The gurus of cool also answer listener email and offer up another rip-roaring Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products they’ve seen during the week. [Free Podcast at PodShow or at Coolness Roundup]
philip
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 8:20 PMFirst listen to you guys…you sure cover a bit of ground in 30 min. Just a couple of things…firstly Coax cables are called coax because they are co-axial (one conductor inside the other) not because they deliver two signals. Also you are spot on with regard to using a video cable in place of a coax digital cable because they are the same type of cable. In broad terms Composite video cables and coax digital cables are both 75 ohm. For some further perspective, standard RCA coax audio cables look the same as the digital/video coax, but are 50 ohms….ie, they look the same but are fundamentally different, so you can use 75 ohm coax for basic video and/or digital coax, but not for standard analgue audio.