What Hifi Sound & Vision..on Why We're No 1:

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Unless the entire world's HDMI's cable producer, QED, Monster, VDH, Chord etc etc etc pakat with reviewers like whathifi, what homecinema, sterophiles, cnet, bla bla bla to con consumers...then yes, there are difference between good and bad HDMI cables.

it doesn't mean cheap cables doesn't work, they do, to a certain extend...they probably offer you output...but you're then probably not getting the most out of your source and your display...as simple as that...

also it doesn't mean you should get the most expensive HDMI cables around...a decent one...to a layman's eyes & ears, differences are probably not very visible...but for pros, they make a mountain of difference...

a car is a car, whether it is a RM40k car or a RM400k car, both has got 4-wheels, both got a stering and most importantly, both can take you to A-B..but some ppl like to get from A to B feeling secured, ie, cars with Air-Bags, electronic stability controls, some like to feel more comfortable in the car if distance from A to B is 600miles...some like to use their notebook in the car, some like to watch DVD movies in the car...obviously, the RM40k car don't offer you this...so, there are differences between a RM40k car with a RM400k car...

for those who know & quoted digital bits is a lots of 0's and 1's...they probably don't know a voltage pulse is required to drives them to produce the bunch of 0's and 1's...there are differences when u measure the output of a cable at the end of it, when u inject a 5V pulse thru a low resistance cable and a high resistance cable (V=I*R) ...to make a cable low resistance, there are different manufacturing methods and its certainly more complex than simply putting a bunch of cables in a core...the way u arrange the conductors in a core, even the type of cables used matters...

during the high-time of copper trading, the LME (london metal exchange) rate for copper went up to about 75-80%...for a lot of ppl, that's a lot of margin to lost...so, some manufacturers in the south east asia, to save cost and remain competitive, instead of having pure copper conductors, they mixed it with steel and what-not...to bring down the cost of copper conductors...i know this because i'm an electronic & electrical graduate, and i'm in the electrical line...

obviously the metal-mixed copper conductor were a lot cheaper compared to the pure copper conductors, and the downside, they exhibits much lower current carrying capacity...test a 40kA fault current test on the similarly size pure & not pure copper conductor, pure conductos will pass test, while copper mixed steel conductor will burn...

so, my point is, there are differences between good & pricey cables, and cheap-er cables...otherwise, manufacturers like QED & Monster won't hv to sell their cables at a premium when they can sell it so much closer to cheap cables and make a huge profit out of volumes & not margins..

not to forget reviewers won't need to crack their heads to test and sample the cables they received...