[This thread should have been posted in Audio/Video cable section (mistook digital cable for cable ;-)) - moderators, please help move it there, didnt know how to move it after the post]
Needed a 10-15m HDMI cable. Went to SP road, bangalore & after looking around, got a 10m MX brand 1.4 HDMI cable for about 1500Rs. The seller had a cheaper cable for about 1000Rs and an expensive version of MX for 3500 odd Rs, but told me that many installers in bangalore choose this white MX cable & it should do the job and suggested that i dont have to buy the expensive one, unless i was paranoid.
Got it home and tested it with my PS3 setup (1080p blu-ray discs as source). Noticed 2 problems
1. After every 1 minute or so the screen would go completly blank for 2 seconds and come back up. Going back to my 3m cable, didnt notice it. After many experiements even with the shorten version of the cable, i noticed the blank screen after every 10minutes and with longer one ever 1 minute or so.
2. My epson projector couldnt immediately sync up, it used to say no signal/signal not recognized. This might be because of the HDCP protocol, had to reset my PS3/AVR to re-negotiate and then it would recognize it. Didnt have this problem with 3m cable.
Attributed this to my long HDMI cable. Some online research suggested that problem '1' above could be PS3 specific and changing setting to avoid the 'Deep Color setting' in 'Display setting' fixed the issue. It is very possible that it reduces the bandwidth requirement for the cable and hence fixes the problem.
Heard from couple of other folks that they tend to see dots with this version of white MX cable i had after 2-3 months of usage.
So i decided to get the cable changed and also the 10m cable fell short for my needs, so had to get a 15m. Dediced to upgrade HDMI cable this time (instead of 2500Rs MX 15m, got the 5000Rs 15m MX 3134D - supposedly supports higher bandwidth).
Changed the PS3 back to have setting of deep colors with the new cable to test it out.
Didnt notice the issue of screen going blank (problem #1 above)
For about a second or so projector does have the problem #2 issue, but it eventually syncs up without having me turn off devices for re-sync.
Many online discussions suggest HDMI cable quality doesnot matter, but based on my personal experience with long cable, it is best to choose quality ones is what i have realized. Probably with the shorter version guess it wouldnt matter that much.
Needed a 10-15m HDMI cable. Went to SP road, bangalore & after looking around, got a 10m MX brand 1.4 HDMI cable for about 1500Rs. The seller had a cheaper cable for about 1000Rs and an expensive version of MX for 3500 odd Rs, but told me that many installers in bangalore choose this white MX cable & it should do the job and suggested that i dont have to buy the expensive one, unless i was paranoid.
Got it home and tested it with my PS3 setup (1080p blu-ray discs as source). Noticed 2 problems
1. After every 1 minute or so the screen would go completly blank for 2 seconds and come back up. Going back to my 3m cable, didnt notice it. After many experiements even with the shorten version of the cable, i noticed the blank screen after every 10minutes and with longer one ever 1 minute or so.
2. My epson projector couldnt immediately sync up, it used to say no signal/signal not recognized. This might be because of the HDCP protocol, had to reset my PS3/AVR to re-negotiate and then it would recognize it. Didnt have this problem with 3m cable.
Attributed this to my long HDMI cable. Some online research suggested that problem '1' above could be PS3 specific and changing setting to avoid the 'Deep Color setting' in 'Display setting' fixed the issue. It is very possible that it reduces the bandwidth requirement for the cable and hence fixes the problem.
Heard from couple of other folks that they tend to see dots with this version of white MX cable i had after 2-3 months of usage.
So i decided to get the cable changed and also the 10m cable fell short for my needs, so had to get a 15m. Dediced to upgrade HDMI cable this time (instead of 2500Rs MX 15m, got the 5000Rs 15m MX 3134D - supposedly supports higher bandwidth).
Changed the PS3 back to have setting of deep colors with the new cable to test it out.
Didnt notice the issue of screen going blank (problem #1 above)
For about a second or so projector does have the problem #2 issue, but it eventually syncs up without having me turn off devices for re-sync.
Many online discussions suggest HDMI cable quality doesnot matter, but based on my personal experience with long cable, it is best to choose quality ones is what i have realized. Probably with the shorter version guess it wouldnt matter that much.
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