I always loved this logic. Lets build the cable really strong, so that when someone trips on it... we save the $15 cable, but yank the $5000 computer onto the floor breaking it instead. Although, I also understand the flip side... it isn't that the cable is designed to withstand abuse, so much as designed to not fall out easily during standard use (thus rational why all the electric cords for my fire trucks use twist lock... even if it means it will knock over a $3000 light tower rather than unplug itself... the last thing you need at an emergency scene is cords randomly unplugging themselves... and the last thing a school tech person wants to deal with is 100 calls a week because the RCA plug fell out again, and the untrained teachers don't know enough to plug it back in... and things like BNC are used on pro level AV equipment for the same reason, so cables aren't always falling out when something is shifted around) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>