I knew that link would get the juices flowing. And people get paid to write this stuff.
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****ing hell. ?300 for an HDMI cable?
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lol HDMI marketing = snake oil.
The only major downfall with dirt cheap leads is construction, I`ve seen a few that have fallen apart leaving the plug part stuck in the back of the bluray / ps3 etc.
One word of advice if you have any splitters or a matrix in your set up make sure all the leads are the same brand.
All the set ups I`ve done of late have used cables from an ebay seller called Neet.Last edited by huxley; 21-09-2010, 15:44.Comment
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I've got an AV receiver (glorified splitter) with 5 different brand/length HDMI cables of varying cheapness input and output, and it's working fine.Originally posted by huxley View Post
Even though the cable may be a different 'brand' they are often just rebadged.Comment
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"The level of refinement and finesse that it encourages is there for all to hear. It?s capable of delivering the explosive adventures of Rambo with gusto and is equally adept at creating a tense atmosphere during Batman Begins "
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The funniest ones are when they claim that different HDMI cables somehow affect the MOTION in the image (facepalm)Comment
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I tell you what I'd love to print half of this off & shove it up my bosses arse.
He's been royally ripped off by the sales pitch at Currys for a £50 1m Monster Hdmi cable & has subsequently been telling me my Customs Cables £6.99 job were a waste of money & I really need to spend mountains of cash in order to get good PQ
It's like banging my head against a brick wall trying to explain that it isn't like the days of Scart cables & unless he's running hundreds of metres of the stuff it's really not that big a deal.
Alas because he's splashed the cash he's trying to defend the purchase.Comment
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Funny, because the HDMI experts (from HDMI LLC no less) are on video laughing at that mentality!He's been royally ripped off by the sales pitch at Currys for a £50 1m Monster Hdmi cable & has subsequently been telling me my Customs Cables £6.99 job were a waste of money & I really need to spend mountains of cash in order to get good PQComment
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You'd of thought that people who buy publications like this would be a little informed about how technology works. As it happens, they just like to see their purchases justified.Comment
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Jesus christ. Every single one of their reviews goes on about picture and sound quality and motion enhancement and edge definition. WTF. There's not enough time in the world to add "your reviewers are retards" to each review comment. Perhaps if we work as a team...Comment
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Good link, but it doesn't make this point clear enough: If your HDMI cable isn't good enough, it will produce blatantly obvious errors on screen.
And it doesn't deal with the issue that most people don't need a 10 meter cable, and that cheap cables are more than often fine. If the cheap cable isn't good enough and doesn't do what it says, then return it and get a refund.Comment
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This article on Eurogamer today. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...oundry-vs-hdmi
they do state that this only applies at cable lengths under 4 metres - which i would guess covers 99% of peopleThe results in the table below are a victory for the concepts of common sense and frugality. The output is 100 per cent identical, whether you are spending ?1.50 or ?100 on a lead. HDMI guarantees you a pristine image - how good the image is comes down to the quality of your screen, and your perception of how it looks.Comment
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^Interesting that they actually get an MD5 hash from the output of each cable, proving that the output is indeed identical.Comment
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Brilliant article, and one which finally puts it to scientific testing rather than common sense alone.
That won't sit with (what's left of) the "my cable is better than yours" club though.Comment
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