We'd pretty much have had pretty bad pictures on the TV since moving and using this old white cable I bought from the local hardware store. We did not get channels five, 4, or ITV 1 and we began to get poor pictures and channel cut outs on other channels. I got the idea to look for better cable rather than call out television repairman. I got this cable and a high quality connector to link two cables and voila! We not only had better picture quality, we had back channels we hadn't had in a year. Better yet, when we set hdd to record, we got the whole programme and not just 8 minutes here and 20 minutes there. Very happy with this product.