Expensive HDMI Cables

Audigex said:
Fact is that unless you're in the habit of running your cabling through fairly strong electromagnetic fields or over massive distances, you can get away with any standard cable.

The only problem wich cheap cable is that if it's a pin-socket type, the pins tend to break more often. (Ie VGA/DVI cables)

As with so much else, get the cheap crappy one; if it has problems you've only wasted a few quid, if it doesn't you've saved a lot more.

And yes, Denon's iLink is just Cat5E for about £30/metre ¬_¬
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its a more than that, its a $500 1.5m cable. - £231/metre.
 
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Lucero said:
This works as follows: A carrier signal is sent telling the TV what order the 1s and 0s should be received. When the signal is sent, the Rx checks it against what the carrier signal says it should have, if it's wrong, the Rx sends it back and requests it again.
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You're wrong on the retransmission part and I think the error correction part of the HDMI spec refers to the audio part of the signal and not the video.

Though I think by and large cheap cables are fine
 
so I could safely conclude that it would be very visible whether a HDMI cable is working or not (and that I was right in asserting the there is not middle ground with a digital signal)?

My main concern is that here was a guy who wasnt trying to sell me anything but was willing to lie and talk spurious nonsense in order to make me look like an idiot or force me to call his bluff and call him a liar.
 
Memphis said:
Congratulations for possibly the single most irrelevant post in the history of forums.
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I ask you why?? It's relavant. It's all digital. Everything gets from A to B either perfectly or not at all. Photos from your digicam transferred to your pc are exact copies bit to bit. If you TV is not recieving the complete signal then it's gonna crap out and you will know about it from the instant. There is no middle ground like what was said.
 
Snax said:
so I could safely conclude that it would be very visible whether a HDMI cable is working or not (and that I was right in asserting the there is not middle ground with a digital signal)?

My main concern is that here was a guy who wasnt trying to sell me anything but was willing to lie and talk spurious nonsense in order to make me look like an idiot or force me to call his bluff and call him a liar.
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"prove it, and i'll buy it".
 
USB is packet based and can resend corrupt packets. HDMI is stream based and if something goes wrong it's up to the error correction (it uses 8/10 encoding) to either properly fix it or bluff its way so that the error isn't noticeable.

A bad USB cable will be slower due to a higher number of lost packets, a bad HDMI cable will have a bad picture, or none at all. At short lengths it's pretty difficult to screw up a cable enough that it's noticeable though.
 
DigitalReaper said:
A bad USB cable will be slower due to a higher number of lost packets, a bad HDMI cable will have a bad picture, or none at all. At short lengths it's pretty difficult to screw up a cable enough that it's noticeable though.
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Noticeable bad picture??? No you get sparklies and the picture totally freezes. Its not a bad picture as in "oh you can get by" watching it. It completely ****s up your picture.
 
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