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Quality DVI cables?

Soldato
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Have seen some people selling "quality" DVI cables. Surely digital is digital, either you get a picture or you don't, or can the quality of the cable still have a bearing on the image quality you see?
 
I think your spot on myself.

the "premium" cable market shouldnt have ever carried on when things went fully digital, analogue, yes they had a point, but with new cables such as DVI and HDMI etc its really not necessery.

A truly poor cable will result in corruption and i suppose its more likely a poorer cable will reach its limits in terms of the res etc it can handle before a better one... but when they want £50 for a cable compared to a fiver or something only the true mug would pay for the £50 one imo.
 
Yeah, don't buy premium DVI or HDMI cables. In most cases they are a complete waste of money.

You've got to figure if they can send a digital signal with about 100 channels through 100 miles of air from the transmitter to your aerial (Freeview) or 1000 channels (including HD channels) from a satellite through about 500 miles of air (Sky Digital) to your satellite dish, and get perfect reception 99.9% of the time, that it's no problem to send one signal down a 2 metre highly conductive copper cable from your PC to your monitor, or from your DVD player to your HDTV.

My £7.99 HDMI cable works perfectly.
 
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