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I have a totally avarage looking VGA cable with totally average HD-15/DE-15 male D-sub connectors on both end, however the label on it states, that it is an "SVGA cable".
I know that VGA is also the name of the 640x480 resolution and SVGA is for 800x600, so I would assume that they named it for a reason, and if my logic is correct than in this case they try to tell me that this cable "supports" 800x600 resolution, but this sounds ridiculous. Every kind of "VGA" (SVGA, QGA, SXGA) works on a regular VGA cable, aren't them? Those are analog signals on the same pins on the same wire. Am I correct?
So, how does an SVGA cable differ from a VGA cable? Is it just a marketing term?
Thanks for the good description/image it makes it totally understandable but the things that convinced me were the examples. – totymedli – 2015-01-11T12:58:33.910
@Jason Do you have a pin out describing which pins are connected to the coax cores and shields? I'd guess at 1,2, and 3 for the cores and 6,7,8, for the shields based on the pin out described at http://www.minitran.co.uk/pdf/SVGA_Pin_Out.pdf but it would be good to have confirmation. Also, do you have a picture of a standard VGA cables stripped back?
– Fat Monk – 2017-03-16T11:13:26.393@FatMonk I don't think there's an official specification for high-resolution VGA cables like there is for network cables. Different manufacturers would be free to make them differently, but your guess sounds right to me. Here's a basic VGA cable.
– Jason – 2017-03-16T14:15:45.730