Don't waste your money on high-priced HDMI cable

[hifijay]

Posted on Thu, May. 26, 2011

Don't waste your money on high-priced HDMI cable

By Jeff Gelles
Inquirer Business Columnist


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PC magazine's Will Greenwald put it succinctly: For the vast majority of home-theater setups, the pitch that you need "special" or "superior" cables is "utter rubbish."

"It's like saying you can get better-looking YouTube videos on your laptop by buying more expensive Ethernet cables," Greenwald wrote. "From a technical standpoint, it simply doesn't make sense."

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Denke says HDMI, like most cable, is largely "just wire and plastic." It carries 19 conductors - strands of wire - that are soldered to a connector plug at each end. "The backside of the connector - the part you never see - is just a little chunk of a printed-circuit board," he says.

As a digital data carrier, HDMI isn't subject to the same kinds of problems that trouble analog transmissions. It either works or it doesn't.

How can you tell? If an HDMI cable is working properly, you get a clean picture. If there is data loss, .........


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[digitalv]

I've been preaching this to the choir here but incidentally a few experts and seniors here was able to detect better video quality and improved black levels when an expensive HDMI cables were used...:lol::clapping:

ESP or Eighth Wonder of the World or Placebo or Wrong forum?

 

[kaushik]

true ! mine is 5$ 10Gbps deepcolor support.from ebay.com.Charming.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

It's a joke.

Back in work days, I even stopped buying branded Cat-5 ethernet cables. Nothing is perfect; there is a failure rate, but it wasn't any higher with the cheaper cables!

 

[Anilvarma]

I use HDMI cables which costs 200 rupees each :lol:

 

[baijuxavior]

I ordered one costing Rs.120/-

 

[deba]

If we dont buy those expensive cables than how will the manufacturers / dealers survive and make some quick money??

Buying costly cables and connectors is a fine way of doing some charity work for the valued but deprived a/v dealers.

Let the great donations continue ..:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[kaushik]

yes manage the money flood problem with expensive cables

 

[wlg]

As I said before, its digital signals being carried, by using gold plated cables the signals will not move any faster or come out better, what goes in has to come out exatly in the same digital format or the cable wont work. Dont get fooled the higher the cable price does not really make the cable any better, HDMI cables available at Lamington Road from Rs.150/- up, MX 450/-.
See You Tube reg HDMI cables

 

[manjunath.forum.all]

this is my own practical exp.
i purchased a sony HDMI cable for Rs 2700 when i purchased my PS3.
after a couple of years, the cable had issues.

i purchased a panasonic HDMI cable for Rs 999. i did not difference in both HDMI cables.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

The hifi market is perfectly set up for this. If I was a cable manufacturer, I doubt that I could resist the temptation!

We all know that we have to throw away those weedy analogue interconnects that equipment manufacturers give with their kit. What more natural than we should expect the same of our digital cables? We are the perfect market: set up and ready to milk!

Even connectors, which is where I think that quality really counts (and even gold plating, for the corrosive atmosphere some of us live in), it could be said that it is only connecting/disconnecting causes them stress. Plug and leave should work for ever.

 

[adarsh]

I ordered 2 HDMI cables on ebay, 100 Rs each ,both working fine. No issues with audio or video. Only question is the 'durability', will they last long?

 

[viper08]

this is my own practical exp.
i purchased a sony HDMI cable for Rs 2700 when i purchased my PS3.
after a couple of years, the cable had issues.

i purchased a panasonic HDMI cable for Rs 999. i did not difference in both HDMI cables.

I am sure, the one with Rs100 tag would work the same way. Only differece you would find is packaging and craftsmanship.

Get a MX cable for 300 bucks and forget every other cable.(based on my personal experience. I am not a seller:lol: )

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Only question is the 'durability', will they last long?

Why would they not?

Unless, of course, you use them as skipping rope when you are not watching TV! hyeah:

 

[just4kix]

Posted on Thu, May. 26, 2011

Don't waste your money on high-priced HDMI cable

By Jeff Gelles
Inquirer Business Columnist

Exactly what I advise all along. Just make sure that you have the right version so that it can address the bandwidth.

I tell you from my own experience. I purchased a digital coaxial cable from Monster in Abu Dhabi. I misplaced it once while my flat was getting painted (I found it later). So for some time I was using a plain RCA cable and guess what ... I could observe no difference in sound quality. OK. Granted that I am not an audiophile but at least I could not detect any fidelity loss.

Don't get me wrong. Monster and other such cables are good. They use pure copper, sometimes oxygen-free cores, gold plating, extra shielding, etc. But ultimately you are just paying for the hype, paronia created by salesmen (Sir, you will loose fidelity, will affect performance, etc.), and lot of advertising. Just like Bose.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Just like Bose.

Godwin's second law...

The first person, in a hifi forum, to mention Bose...

:yahoo::clapping::yahoo::clapping:

 

[just4kix]

Godwin's second law...

The first person, in a hifi forum, to mention Bose...

:yahoo::clapping::yahoo::clapping:

Well. I own Bose. I have had reasons for buying them (in 1999). I was constrained by space; not too many options in India at that time; high customs duty; wanted a lightweight package that I could carry in check-in baggage from Abu Dhabi, etc. They are OK for cinema though; crap for pure hi-fi music.

 

[denom]

Why would they not?

Unless, of course, you use them as skipping rope when you are not watching TV! hyeah:

:lol:hyeah::lol:

 

[shershah]

dammit! - this cannot be true -and only i know that -

you chaps - you naysayers- you guys are in the forests of lies-

while i live on the open steppes of truth -

and while I see the darker blacks and deeper depths and hollows with my expensive (laser-aligned and welded) HDMI cables -

you guys - the hoi-polloi- have to make do with cheapo digital cables:lol:

That is a great divide - and i am not sure that i can even see you guys at that distance!:lol::lol:

 

[intacto]

very true...i read similar article several months back in some forum.....its DIGITAL so thr has to be either 0 or 1...thr is no in between...hence it should either should work or shdnt wrk.