HDMI cables- Does price give quality?

2009-01-02 10:21:49

#1

teek22: Add "teek22" on your PS3 fools!; +133|6646|Bromley, London

I want a 5 metre HDMI cable to link my laptop to my HDTV.

I thought this was a really good buy: http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electro … type=genre

Then I began to wonder if buying a cheap cable like this sacrifice the picture quality etc.
I thought it didn't but then some told me it did and I got confused

Please could you just clarify this for me.

Thanks

2009-01-02 10:30:31

#2

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6718|The Twilight Zone

Buy that.

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2009-01-02 10:31:51

#3

Buckles: Cheeky Keen; +329|6821|Kent, UK

normally the cheaper ones are a bit crap, but you'll notice that is a decent cable, just heavily discounted

2009-01-02 10:33:37

#4

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6577

I saw something on the news about a month ago. They did a demonstration with HDMI cables and there wasn't any difference in picture from the cheap to the expensive one.

Go for it.

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2009-01-02 10:34:54

#5

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6847|SE London

It's a digital format. It makes fuck all difference.

Either you have perfect picture or broken horrible picture. There is no in between (except maybe the occasional bit of jitter if you have a really bad cable). There is no point in the highly priced top end cables - those are a throw back to the days of analog interconnects where cable quality was vitally important.

2009-01-02 13:33:43

#6

mikkel: Member; +383|6866

The only scenario in which you'd buy anything other than the cheapest cable you can find in any reputable store is if you're expecting to put it in use in an interference-heavy environment such as near really heavy power closets, around a microwave oven, or in a wiring closet. You'll get by running the cheapest properly assembled HDMI cables you can find between two components in close proximity in most all scenarios.

2009-01-02 13:35:52

#7

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6832|NYC / Hamburg

Bertster7 wrote:
It's a digital format. It makes fuck all difference.

Either you have perfect picture or broken horrible picture. There is no in between (except maybe the occasional bit of jitter if you have a really bad cable). There is no point in the highly priced top end cables - those are a throw back to the days of analog interconnects where cable quality was vitally important.

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2009-01-02 13:38:50

#8

phishman420: Banned; +821|5946

Will I notice a difference between an HDMI cable and the regular AV cables with my cable box?

2009-01-02 13:48:36

#9

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6847|SE London

phishman420 wrote:
Will I notice a difference between an HDMI cable and the regular AV cables with my cable box?

Probably. No signal degradation over HDMI, since it's digital.

Digital signal quality is very simple. It's either great, or unusably bad.

2009-01-02 13:52:33

#10

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6914

Bertster7 wrote:
phishman420 wrote:
Will I notice a difference between an HDMI cable and the regular AV cables with my cable box?
Probably. No signal degradation over HDMI, since it's digital.

Digital signal quality is very simple. It's either great, or unusably bad.

You know how they talk about them in terms of bandwidth? Does that mean that theoretically speaking, if you were sending a stupidly high quality video over it, it would lose quality? I know fuck all about HDMI and how the rate them, I just saw in my local electronics store they had them sorted by bandwidth in Gb/s.

2009-01-02 13:54:02

#11

Aries_37: arrivederci frog; +368|6840|London

Bertster7 wrote:
phishman420 wrote:
Will I notice a difference between an HDMI cable and the regular AV cables with my cable box?
Probably. No signal degradation over HDMI, since it's digital.

Digital signal quality is very simple. It's either great, or unusably bad.

But it also depends on what's coming out of the cable box. Some channels have such crappy quality to begin with you won't notice a difference. You'll get the best improvement on HD channels (you guys are probs better stocked on these in the US than we are over here).

2009-01-02 14:05:06

#12

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6847|SE London

ghettoperson wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
phishman420 wrote:
Will I notice a difference between an HDMI cable and the regular AV cables with my cable box?
Probably. No signal degradation over HDMI, since it's digital.

Digital signal quality is very simple. It's either great, or unusably bad.
You know how they talk about them in terms of bandwidth? Does that mean that theoretically speaking, if you were sending a stupidly high quality video over it, it would lose quality? I know fuck all about HDMI and how the rate them, I just saw in my local electronics store they had them sorted by bandwidth in Gb/s.

No. You need a cable rated high enough for the resolution/refresh you want to use. Like with DVI and dual link DVI (although there is also single and dual link HDMI, so that's not the best example). There are versions from 1.0 to 1.3 and they each get slightly better bandwidth, but are all backwards compatible. The lowest end HDMI cables will support 1080p, you only need higher end ones for extremely high resolutions (or if you want a higher than typical refresh rate). I think some of the newest audio formats are only fully supported over newer higher bandwidth cables.

2009-01-02 14:06:42

#13

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6847|SE London

Aries_37 wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
phishman420 wrote:
Will I notice a difference between an HDMI cable and the regular AV cables with my cable box?
Probably. No signal degradation over HDMI, since it's digital.

Digital signal quality is very simple. It's either great, or unusably bad.
But it also depends on what's coming out of the cable box. Some channels have such crappy quality to begin with you won't notice a difference. You'll get the best improvement on HD channels (you guys are probs better stocked on these in the US than we are over here).

Well obviously if the source is low quality you're going to have a hard time noticing the difference. But the quality will probably be better.

2009-01-02 15:31:45

#14

blah: macaroni with cheeseeee; +111|6013|Croatia

But you don't want to buy Chinese ofc

2009-01-02 15:35:38

#15

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|6814|UK

2009-01-02 15:35:47

#16

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6886|London, England

The more important aspects of a good quality picture when it comes to HD, is the TV and the source (blu ray, console game etc..) - Cables don't really mean jack shit. I never get when people buy really good HDTV's and really good HDMI cables etc.. but then only ever feed the TV with an SD signal

2009-01-02 16:45:25

#17

teek22: Add "teek22" on your PS3 fools!; +133|6646|Bromley, London

k, thanks everyone! I bought that cable.

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