Sep 3 2008, 10:22 AM
QUOTE(99below0 @ Sep 3 2008, 09:49 AM)
Well, simple analogy:
HDMI is a digital cable like your USB. Heard of anyone needing a Monster USB cable for "extra-high quality" transference of data? Thought not.
HDMI transfers "data" not analogue signals like your old component/s-video/composite cables. You either get the data or you don't, much like either your USB cable works 100% or it's broke.
Cable companys have to instill the high-quality HDMI cable myth into everyone cause they'd be out of business if everyone switches from thousand-dollar component cables to RM50 HDMI cables.
Actually it's not true for HDMI. USB is different as it is Serial (so it can go high speed without data resync on different cable). HDMI had heavy duty task to transfer both video and audio. Also, with HDMI, there is a built in error correction (like your CD player. Which is why some CD player sound better than others cause the best CD player actually read the disc few times to ensure the bit is correct + jitter issue). Timing is important in HDMI cable too. Error Correction can only recover certain bit and if it is loss, then a good circuit will try to find the best pixel to represent the loss pixel. That's why it's not like either it work or it wouldn't work. It still pass through the signal but might have some data loss (certain torelance) before you see snow on your screen.HDMI is a digital cable like your USB. Heard of anyone needing a Monster USB cable for "extra-high quality" transference of data? Thought not.
HDMI transfers "data" not analogue signals like your old component/s-video/composite cables. You either get the data or you don't, much like either your USB cable works 100% or it's broke.
Cable companys have to instill the high-quality HDMI cable myth into everyone cause they'd be out of business if everyone switches from thousand-dollar component cables to RM50 HDMI cables.
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