HDMI Cables

And yet, they amazingly transfer the digital HDMI signal perfectly! Juggy, as a matter of interest, do you have a technical qualification to back up your assumption that you need expensive cables to transfer a HDMI signal 1.5m? Do you apply the same logic to your USB cables?
 
igeorge said:
And yet, they amazingly transfer the digital HDMI signal perfectly! Juggy, as a matter of interest, do you have a technical qualification to back up your assumption that you need expensive cables to transfer a HDMI signal 1.5m? Do you apply the same logic to your USB cables?
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Do have a qualification to prove what you're saying? Pretty dof statement really isn't it?

It's a known fact that better quality cabling is better and a personal preference as well. If you want to link your R20 000 systemn together with R20 cables then that's your choice.
 
JUGGY said:
Do have a qualification to prove what you're saying? Pretty dof statement really isn't it?

It's a known fact that better quality cabling is better and a personal preference as well. If you want to link your R20 000 systemn together with R20 cables then that's your choice.
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Sorry, but that logic does not apply to DIGITAL cables.
 
So what you are then saying is that the R20 HDMI cable WILL deliver the EXACT SAME quality and speed as the R1600 cable?

And that by buying the more expensive cable, you are only paying for gold plating on the tips, the separated insulated wires straight through the cable and ox-free copper versus ornament copper and all of this does nothing because the cable is digital?
 
You do get something like BER (Bit Error Rate) on digital signals. Now, you will get less errors on the good quality cables, but because of error correction you probably won't see a difference.

I can say that better quality cables will decrease changes of incompatibilities between sources, cables and screens. Especially when splitters and extenders are involved. I'm not saying that you need to buy a cable that costs a few grand, but a cable that cost R250, is better than a R70 cable.
 
TBlaar said:
So what you are then saying is that the R20 HDMI cable WILL deliver the EXACT SAME quality and speed as the R1600 cable?

And that by buying the more expensive cable, you are only paying for gold plating on the tips, the separated insulated wires straight through the cable and ox-free copper versus ornament copper and all of this does nothing because the cable is digital?
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And the fact that the copper is of a higher quality as are the end connectors.
 
HTC_guy said:
why?
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It is digital, either the little ones and zeroes make it to the other side, or they don't ... if they don't then you will not be wondering about it, on the audio side you will hear significant distortion and on video it will basically look like it does when DSTv starts losing signal during a thunderstorm or when you play a dirty(not that type of dirty) DVD. You might ocassionally run into some cables that are really not produced to spec, but I have never found an HDMI cable that did not do what it is supposed to. Just check the specs, if you need it for 1.4, then buy a cable that at least states that it can handle 1.4.
 
JUGGY said:
So personal preference does not apply to digital cables?
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Well yeah, if your personal preference is that they need to be Ferari red then the most expensive blue Monster cable will not do, I guess. I was obviously referring to the other part of your post.
 
TBlaar said:
So what you are then saying is that the R20 HDMI cable WILL deliver the EXACT SAME quality and speed as the R1600 cable?

And that by buying the more expensive cable, you are only paying for gold plating on the tips, the separated insulated wires straight through the cable and ox-free copper versus ornament copper and all of this does nothing because the cable is digital?
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YES
 
TYR said:
It is digital, either the little ones and zeroes make it to the other side, or they don't ... if they don't then you will not be wondering about it, on the audio side you will hear significant distortion and on video it will basically look like it does when DSTv starts losing signal during a thunderstorm or when you play a dirty(not that type of dirty) DVD. You might ocassionally run into some cables that are really not produced to spec, but I have never found an HDMI cable that did not do what it is supposed to. Just check the specs, if you need it for 1.4, then buy a cable that at least states that it can handle 1.4.
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ah okay cool :)

was just wondering coz I srsly picked mine up for R49 lol
 
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