I'm hoping someone on this board knows a lot about video recording. I'm doing a fundraiser on Saturday that is an "Iron Chef" competition and the teams are doing all their cooking in the Urban Chef kitchen located in the building right behind our house. The audience will be in the house watching on live video roughly 50 feet away. At least, that was the plan. I have a digital camcorder and someone suggested I just get a 75 foot cable to go straight to the DVDR or TV. The trouble is that they don't make the kind of cable I need remotely that long. The longest I can find is about 12 feet. Does anyone know where I could get a long enough cable? I've seen coax cables long enough (well, I've seen them online, I don't know that I can get one by Saturday) but the camera can't take a coax cable, is there some sort of adapter that could be used? Some other options people have suggested was to do streaming video. We do have an internet connection in the Urban Chef kitchen and it's connected to the router in the house. We also have several laptops that could be put to use. But I'm not sure how well streaming video or http video would work. Do you have to record, save, upload and then it becomes available? Can people watch with only a few seconds lag time? Is there any way to get the video from a computer to the TV? What sort of equipment would I have to get to make that work? Any help is appreciated!
Radio Shack has coax cables up to 100 feet. You should be able to feed the output from the camera into some sort of video switch/adapter and run the 100 foot cable to your TV. Hopefully what I posted above makes some sense. If not, the people I've talked to at Radio Shack are very helpful with this type of stuff.
CamCorder + RCA/SVideo_cable -> VCR VCR + long_coax/RCA_cable/SVideo_cable -> TV Wally Martínez has long enough cables cheap (~ 10 bucks), or you can even buy one at the corner $1 store, if you don't care about the quality and, even then, it's a good image. Aren't you supposed to be helping Juan do the coffee? Who's manning the coffee factory?
Thanks! I tried Radio Shack and that's just what they suggested so I bought $100 woth of stuff from them. Then I went to Walmart and spent half that on the same items so I now have to go make a return In any case, the solution worked perfectly!
