Beyond a certain point you'll have to get fibre-optic cables or go over ethernet. I've had 10m copper HDMI cables work - Popular Mechanics says 50 feet is the maximum - but I wouldn't try it with HDMI 2.0
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Beyond a certain point you'll have to get fibre-optic cables or go over ethernet. I've had 10m copper HDMI cables work - Popular Mechanics says 50 feet is the maximum - but I wouldn't try it with HDMI 2.0
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antiference 5m cable. premium certified, 12 quid, job done. certified cables don't have to be expensive.
my longest hdmi leads are used for connecting a laptop regularly too the tv from the sofa, so,
quality of the plugs and flexibility of the cable is another factor, this is difficult to evaluate; leads have died for me because the plugs, which seem strangely(fortunately?) less robust than those in the laptop become slack.
quality of the plugs and flexibility of the cable is another factor, this is difficult to evaluate; leads have died for me because the plugs, which seem strangely(fortunately?) less robust than those in the laptop become slack.
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Edit: I'm an idiot
OK so I've now installed the cable in the wall and checked the sky TV picture with a black background and...... Those lines are still there!!!
The only way I can describe them is that when you watch a programme such as The Planets with a black scene, you can see these very light lines from top to bottom of the screen. When you get really close it looks like a some of the pixels are just not switched off like they should be on a black scene.
The only way I can describe them is that when you watch a programme such as The Planets with a black scene, you can see these very light lines from top to bottom of the screen. When you get really close it looks like a some of the pixels are just not switched off like they should be on a black scene.
OK so I've worked out what it was.... The brightness setting was set to 60 instead of the default setting of 50 in the "brightroom" picture setting.
When I lowered this the banding went away. Shame that it happens but at least I know now.
Only slight side note is that I spent almost 30 quid on a lead I didn't need. Oh well, it should last and it gives me the best picture I can hope to expect
When I lowered this the banding went away. Shame that it happens but at least I know now.
Only slight side note is that I spent almost 30 quid on a lead I didn't need. Oh well, it should last and it gives me the best picture I can hope to expect
That sounds like a fault with the screen itself.
I believe it's a common thing with C8 OLEDs and is covered quite extensively over the Internet.
https://www.avforums.com/threads/lg-oled-c8-brighter-right-side.2187342/
Some suffer from it more than others. Im in 2 minds about whether it's a fault and clearly need to look into it further. It only happens at around brightness level 50 - 54 and that's bright enough really. You can't see it during the day and only at night in a pitch dark room. Lower the brightness to 50 and even then you can't see it.
Anyone else with C8s experience this?
you can send the cable back ?
in rerospect we should have realised banding is not a sympton of bad hdmi cables, but followed your hdmi lead .... sparklies, or, just no picture, are the hdmi lead symptoms afaik
Its ok, I wanted a decent cable anyway that was a bit longer. It was a bit of a knee jerk reaction tbh but I'm feeling a bit better anyway now I know I can get rid of the "banding". Some people get it worse than on my TV.
Excuse my ignorance, but what does it mean when a HDMI cable says it has Ethernet? I thought an ethernet cable was to get wired internet from your router. Does this mean we'll be plugging in HDMI cables into routers in the future? I don't really understand...
So, if you had a AV receiver plugged into the network, then HDMI to the TV, the TV can get that wired internet connection through HDMI?