Canare V5-5C Jacketed RGBHV Video Cable

Canare V5-5C Jacketed RGBHV Video Cable - "Pro Series" 5-Channel Precision Cable, shown here with BNC connectors

This Canare V5-5C Jacketed RGBHV Video cable is a "Pro Series" 5-Channel Precision Cable with BNC and RCA connector options*.  Built with Canare's largest and highest-performance 5-channel video cable, we install Canare's matching, high quality, "True 75 Ohm" BNC and/or RCA type connectors.*  The connectors are fitted with flexible silicone boots, providing essential industry-standard color-coding while avoiding sharp bends at the connectors.

This is an ideal way to connect a wide range of professional video equipment as well as satellite receivers, video processors and similar sources to CRT, LCD, DLP, LCOS, SXRD, plasma, monitors, HDTVs, front projector, or any RGBHV video-enabled equipment.

With this custom cable, you select the connectors that perfectly match your equipment, eliminating the need for adapters that can cause impedance bumps.  If you are interested in why impedance bumps are bad, please read "Flawless Results" below.

If you are not sure which cable to choose, this comparison of Canare component video cables may be helpful. 

Why Canare?

You can tell by looking that Canare cables and connectors are well made, and you can tell by reading the rave reviews that Canare cables are great performers!  Canare is preferred by professionals and discriminating enthusiasts, alike.  Canare cables are often the choice of the professionals who produce and broadcast the program material that we strive to accurately reproduce.  It is hard to imagine how one could do better than to use the same cables that were used to originate the programming!

The BNC Connectors

In our experience, the key to great video cables is in the connectors.  Exotic conductors and shielding are fine, but it's the connectors that really make the difference.

The BNC-type connector is the best connector that is commonly available for applications of this type.  In general, it is both mechanically and electrically superior to an RCA connector.  It has a twist-lock mechanism to ensure that the connection is mechanically secure, and the electrical design of the connector does a good job of maintaining constant impedance at the connector.

Canare takes this inherent superiority to the next level.  For example, many BNC connectors have a characteristic impedance of only 50 ohms, but Canare connectors are engineered to maintain a constant impedance of 75 ohms. This makes a lot of sense because virtually all A/V equipment is designed to work best with 75 ohm cables.  It follows that if you want the best performance your equipment can deliver, you will need cables and connectors that maintain this impedance.

This electrical superiority is the result of superior mechanical design, high quality materials and precision manufacturing.  Canare's BNC connectors are almost artful in their design...and they work very well indeed.

Optional RCA Connectors*

It is hard to imagine a finer RCA connector than Canare's.  Generic RCA plugs and cables have been around since the 1940s, but the old solder-type plugs typically have an impedance of about 25 ohms.  This is a problem because most modern A/V gear is designed for 75 ohms impedance.  This impedance mismatch results in extremely poor return loss performance, even when the connectors are mated to high quality cable.  Some of the so-called "high end" cables use exotic-sounding materials and make unsupportable claims, but still fail to solve this very real and important problem.

Canare's impedance-matched 75 ohm RCA crimp plugs solve these problems.  As with the BNC connectors, they are precision machined to maintain a constant 75 ohm impedance.  We install them using Canare tools that always prepare the cable ends, just right.  The connectors are crimped in place, using heavy, precision-machined dies.  The result is excellent digital and analog performance with a usable bandwidth to over 200 MHz!  The connector design ensures consistent and extremely reliable terminations.  VSWR is typically less than 1.1 from DC to 200 MHz.  The crimp design excludes oxygen, preventing corrosion associated with dissimilar metals, which can degrade even the best soldered connections.  It's an awesome system, and the resulting terminations are in a class of their own.

The center shaft is gold plated.  If you look closely at the picture at the right, you can see the internal beryllium pressure fingers, which ensure good contact, while avoiding the "grip of death" that afflicts Monster and some of the other manufacturers' connectors.  The "grip of death" connectors put unnecessary strain on your equipment.  Canare connectors connect up smoothly, and maintain good contact, while protecting your equipment investment.

Cable Specs

Of course you also want high quality cable.  Flexibility is desirable because it avoids stress on your equipment and the interconnects.  Flex life is important because it prevents cable performance from degrading over time.  Try to avoid multiple materials in the conductors or shielding, because of the problems associated with dissimilar metals.  Low loss is desirable, but don't sacrifice mechanical integrity in favor of small differences in loss specs!  Cables with foamed dielectric materials generally have lower loss, but foam is not without it's own inherent problems.  Shielding is important, but don't be confused by exorbitant claims.  Electrical shielding is not the same as waterproofing -- you don't need two, three, four, or more layers of shielding to get good electrical shielding.  All the extra layers make the cables stiff, and tend to make good terminations more difficult to install, and more prone to failure.

This large five-channel Canare cable is extremely flexible for its size.  It has a PVC jacket with a smooth, non-glare finish, and it stays flexible even at sub-zero temperatures!  Here are some specs on the cable:

• Outside jacket diameter, 19.2 mm (.756 in.)
• Individual channel OD, 6 mm (.237 in.)
• Low loss - less than .34 dB per meter at 10 MHz, and less than 3.4 dB per meter even at 1 GHz!
• Tightly woven all-copper shield with greater than 94% coverage
• Nominal capacitance, 67 pF per meter
• Nominal impedance, 75 ohms
• Velocity of propagation, 66%
• Less than 2.2 nanosecond differential delay between channels at 100 feet.

*Be sure to include a note with your payment specifying the terminations you prefer. If you do not specify, we will build per our standard: BNC to BNC.