Tripp Lite P510-006 6ft VGA Monitor Extension Cable Gold HD15M / HD15F 6-Feet

As the title states, the quality is good/excellent. No ghosting. Excellent contrast. Crisp text. At least as good as the cable that came with my monitor.

Design wise, the thumb-screws are poorly designed. The shape does not provide for a good grip...sending you for a screw-driver. The plastic is not hard/firm enough to tolerate the force of the screw-driver turning it...it bends, scrapes and generally causes one to question the quality choice of the manufacturer.

Length does not perceptibly degrade LCD monitor image quality.

I would purchase again, but I might look for a cable with better thumb-screws all else being the same quality.

Causes extreme ghosting on monitor. I expect this is due to the fact that the cable has very thin shielding -much less than a standard 6ft monitor cable. I bought this because I wanted to get my computer off my desk and out of the way, but was completely useless to me. Threw it away.

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In order to rearrange my computer equipment, I needed something longer than the original monitor cable to connect between the CPU and monitor. I found this cable and ordered it, thinking it would do what I needed. After receiving the cable, I quickly learned that it causes ghosting on the monitor, something that does not happen with the original cable. The manufacturer, Tripp-lite suggests changing the resolution or refresh rate, neither of which would be acceptable to me. I would like to see Amazon revise their description of this item and tell people that it may deteriorate the performance of their monitor.

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This very light-weight and cheap feeling 25' cable produced hazing and ghosts in the VGA signal, worse with the higher resolutions. Further reading indicates that it is due to improper impedence rating of the cable, which means it is just cheap materials. If you need a VGA cable to go 25', get it heavy shielded and pay.. or you will end up paying twice.

Very disappointed.

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Because VGA is an ANALOG format instead of DVI/HDMI digital connections, VGA cables must be treated with great care from manufacturing to use. Unfortunately this cable wasn't treated well in manufacturing. The cable impedance is wrong which creates ghosts in the image. The mfgr (tripp-lite, well known for their inverters and ups systems) tried to get by with thin cable which might be ok for a 3 foot VGA but in 25 feet the cable degredation just ruins the picture.

Proper cable is 75 ohms for VGA signals, measuring this with a tektronics cable analyzer shows it is off by 33%, and that the red, green, and blue cables are not all the same impedance (they should be matched). You will not like the image at the end of this above 640x480 and even there it will be sub-par.

For long VGA cables, look for thick cable (3/8-1/2 inch) heavy shielding, the thicker the better. On my unix workstation the 3 coax cable is 1" in diameter. the VGA standard calls for 5 coaxes so you can see they are using skinny wire inside.

As the other reviewer said, buy the best. forget the rest. I hope this review saves someone's eyes out there.

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