Picture quality is as critical to the home cinema experience as sound is to a musical experience and the same fundamental design principles apply to cables designed to carry visual information. Chord produce an extensive range of cables designed to carry both analogue and digital picture signals. Chord Company produce composite, S-Video, component, Scart and HDMI cables.

As with audio cables, choice of conductor material, insulation material and quality of shielding are all critical and Chord's composite, component and Scart cables all use a purpose-designed very low loss sub-miniature coax cable to carry picture signals. The cable is able to carry a high quality picture over lengths of up to 35 metres, making these cables ideal for high quality projector based home cinema systems.

Chord produce two S-Video cables, the S-Video Copper and the S-Video Silver. Over short lengths the difference in picture quality is not particularly marked but in lengths of 5 metres or over, the high performance S-Video Silver will maintain picture quality and lengths of up to 20 metres are possible. Both the S-Video Copper and Silver are identical in design, the critical difference being the silver-plated conductors and the choice of Teflon in place of polyethylene as insulation.

All Chord's analogue cables can be terminated with a huge variety of plugs and as well as standard RCA plugs, S-Video plugs and Scart plugs, Chord analogue picture cables can be supplied fitted with BNC connectors, VGA plugs and D-Bus connectors. If you cannot see the connection you need, get in touch with us.

Chord produce two HDMI cables. The Lo-Pro, a cost effective cable designed to transmit a 1080p signal over lengths of up to 5 metres and ideal for rack-mounted screen and DVD combinations. The HDMI Silver Plus 1.3 is capable of carrying a 1080p picture signal in lengths of up to 40 metres and is the cable of choice for any high performance home cinema system. Chord also produce two high quality gold-plated adaptors, designed to connect HDMI cables to DVI or MI sockets with minimum signal loss.