Geekanoids: Lindy Premium Gold Flat Scart Cable Review

Lindy Premium Gold Flat Scart Cable Review
Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Lindy Premium Gold Flat SCART cable promises to deliver a "Superior quality connection for your Home Cinema equipment", well it certainly is a unique looking cable, so let's take a look at what you get for your hard earned money…

To kick things off, if you have plenty of cables and things are maybe looking a bit messy, you know the normal spaghetti junction, then this flat design may well help things out. It can easily be routed through tight spaces, even underneath equipment if that makes it easier to hide things.
The gold plated connectors are absolutely fantastic, some of the best quality I have experienced. When inserting into the back of equipment, I found the connection to be very easy and more importantly secure.

I tested the Premium Gold Flat Scart Cable with two different devices. A Pioneer DV454 DVD player and a Panasonic DMR-EX85 HDD recorder. The Pioneer showed the biggest improvement over the standard supplied scart cable. The easiest way to describe it in layman terms is that there was less interference and the picture picked up a definite sharpness (whilst still looking very natural). The Panasonic delivered a good picture anyway, but I still saw a slight improvement in detail.

This cable from Lindy UK is available in a variety of lengths, with the 1m version on test costing £21.99. For this very reasonable amount you get a really high quality scart cable. A lot of people shun spending money on things like this, but if you put this up against the scart cable that came with your kit, you will be amazed. If you are just starting out, then put aside £40 or £50 at least for a couple of these, you will not regret it.

Product: Lindy Premium Gold Flat SCART Cable (1m)
Price: £21.99
Supplied by: Lindy UK
Contact: +44 (0) 1642 754000

Labels: Home Theatre

posted 08:36,

2 Comments:

At 12:50 pm, Anonymous said...: How easy is it to manipulate this cable? Okay, it's easy to run under the carpet, but what about in confined spaces between equipment in the same rack for instance?
Space is at a premium behind my Topfield TF5800 PVR. At the moment I use the conventional angled SCART for both connections but one of them fights in the same space as a USB cable from the same unit. I would have to fold the flat SCART cable to achieve a 90-degree turn, but would that damage it, and would it want to spring back straight?
At 1:08 pm, DavoMrMac said...: It seems fairly easy to bend, but only along the flat edge. I found it handy to be able to run underneath equipment, to save on clutter behind components. You can definitely do the 90 degree turn, but only in one direction, so it would end up sticking up a little.

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