Ah..brand name is definitely not, why not you tell me, Tiger? 

may be to test cable's bit error rate in a electromagnetically noisy environment such as next to a GSM transmission tower, to prove that it got adequate shielding, Guinea pig? 

Well, my take is this. Usually those affordable hdmi cables will cut corners to save cost so their margin is more (this is the norm right?  ) and while those audiophile HDMI will usually give you the best possible quality as required by HDMI corp standard.

Look at this one :

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This is where the difference between a good quality and a poor quality HDMI cable. Then the purity of the cable material and shielding plays certain part too. However, by meant good quality doesnt meant it has to be expensive as well neither is expensive is always good. I'll always go for the certified HDMI adopters/manufacturers products when it comes to HDMI cables to be safe. And the longer they're in the business, the better it's as they're not found to be cutting corner when being given the license to manufacture the HDMI cables for OEM/mass markets.

The list can be found here :

http://www.hdmi.org/learningcenter/adopters_founders.aspx

Surprisingly most of the audiophile brands arent listed as the manufacturers/adopters which means they're OEM from one of these listed manufacturers instead 

I personally ripped apart a few HDMI cables from cheap to decent audiophile brands due to malfunctioning and were surprised at each post mortem investigation and I'll am now a firm believer in good quality HDMI cables at very affordable price 

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Added on February 23, 2012, 3:53 pm

Nope, you're not correct. High speed term is used in the v1.4 hdmi cable which is categorised into a few category.

Read it here :

http://www.hdmi.org/consumer/buying_guide.aspx

If it's not stated, usually it's v1.3 unless it's stated.

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Added on February 23, 2012, 3:55 pm

This is eye opener..pls..continue..we want to know more 

may be to test cable's bit error rate in a electromagnetically noisy environment such as next to a GSM transmission tower, to prove that it got adequate shielding, Guinea pig? 

did not see version number printed on the cable, is that important?

if the cable can work at 1080p, then it is high speed cable

most of the HDMI cable nowdays are high speed , but there is 2 version .. v1.3 and v1.4 .. but if rm9.90 sure its v1.3 

free bundled HDMI cable come with media player is usually standard speed type

I do not have HDMI v1.4 device, will test my"v1.3" cable if it can work on v1.4 devices in the future

Wow ... already 43 pages and with so many salesmen flaunting their superb cable!

Meanwhile, if your v1.3 cable is shorter than 5m, it'll also pass 3D signal without much problem.

The rule of the thumb is 10m before repeaters or quality of cable comes into play.

Hi guys. Please point me in the right direction if this is the wrong place to post. It's a basic question, and as I'm new to this home entertainment stuff, will like to seek for your input.

It's about the Full HD 1080p feature. Let's say I have a movie of that definition and I load it onto a USB stick and have a TV set, which supports Full HD 1080p, play it from the USB stick, will it be able to produce Full HD 1080p or just SD?

Is it a must for a HDMI cable be used, be it from a HD player or something else, in order for the TV set to produce the Full HD 1080p picture quality?

Thanking you guys in advance.

That's textbook rule. Real life HDMI has 30awg, 28awg, 26awg, 24awg. It's better to limit to 5m than 10m which your picture quality can suffer due to other factors such as connector, gauge and contact point soldering.

Actually that's the real world guide.  There was a long article and test on this - cannot remember the source, its probably WhatHifi or Audioholics or BlueJeans.

So many choices for HDMI nowadays.  Get one that has thicker cable, well built with gold plated connectors.

Actually that's the real world guide.  There was a long article and test on this - cannot remember the source, its probably WhatHifi or Audioholics or BlueJeans.

So many choices for HDMI nowadays.  Get one that has thicker cable, well built with gold plated connectors.

hi experts,

I own a HD plasma TV (1024x768), and plan to get a bluray player after this, i suppose all bluray player is supporting full HD (1920x1080) rite, so the bluray movie quality will get some sort of 'down-convert' to HD scale and send to my TV rite?

Then the question comes, for this application do I really need a HDMI v1.4 cable? Or v1.3 will do the job well?? I not really sure whether my plasma TV support ARC feature (It's a Samsung Plasma PS51E451 model).

v1.3 cable can get below rm50, but I think v1.4 cable close to rm100?

If I am using v1.4 cable, what sort of advantages do I get from this? Assuming in future I will use the same HDMI cable to plug from my laptop to TV.