QUOTE(Will.i.am.Smith @ Feb 23 2012, 03:45 PM)
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.aspxSurprisingly 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
Added on February 23, 2012, 3:53 pmNope, 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.aspxIf it's not stated, usually it's v1.3 unless it's stated.
Added on February 23, 2012, 3:55 pmThis is eye opener..pls..continue..we want to know more
Finally some one understand what am I talking about. Yes it is all about the EYE Opener. The digital signals are like girls eye, big is good. Refer to following picture:
Over the time, all the cable will get de-rated and resulting the transmission signals are not good as compared to new one. If the cable is not good enough, then the transferred data will get corrupted and in the worst case, the cable is not able to link up 2 devices.
QUOTE(neb @ Feb 23 2012, 05:56 PM)
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?
Actually to be effected by noise, it does not need to placed at electromagnetically environment, just put your cable next to your power cord. However, most of the high speed signals such as HDMI will not have effect on those noise even at electromagnetically environment. This is because HDMI is using differential pair of signals and they are able to cancel the noise. Furthermore HDMI is using 8b/10b encoding and therefore it can recover the incorrect bit.
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