HDMI Cable, Best For The Price!

Leopard

BargainGalore wrote: »

HDMI is digital so works with 1's and 0's it either works or it doesn't there really is no need for a expensive cable its just a marketing ploy and no very MSE either

Thanks for sharing anway

The question is whether the same ones and zeros come out of the other end of the cable and whether they do so in exactly the same order. If they don't, quite, one can still get a picture but it won't be as good. Case in point, custardy's experience - and ours was the same. With neither of the cheaper cables did we get 1080p on a 52" from the (Sony) Blu-ray player: it defaulted to 720p, even if we tried to set it manually. But it works marvellously at 1080p on a cable more than twice as long that is of higher quality.

custardy

that was my point.
whilst im not saying more expensive is better,every time anything HDMI is mentioned you get posts saying any cable will do.
where this isnt the case

Marty_J

Leopard wrote: »

The question is whether the same ones and zeros come out of the other end of the cable and whether they do so in exactly the same order. If they don't, quite, one can still get a picture but it won't be as good.

You didn't simply get a picture that wasn't "as good" though; you didn't get a picture at all. That's what happens when digital does wrong.

I'm sure you've seen what your Freesat picture looks like during particularly bad weather. There isn't much chance of mistaking it for a correct signal, and one certainly doesn't need mains conditioners or other esoterica to see the difference. Even my 83 year old grandmother can tell when her Freeview reception gets messed up.

Leopard

Well, without going into the nuances of what picture different cables produce at the same resolution, you will surely concede that if one cable can produce a 1080p picture on my 52' television and another one can only manage 720p, the former is its worth its additional cost!

The cheap cables I bought are fine with our 20" television because that only works at 720p anyway and has no 1080p option. Which is not a problem because we don't need more than 720p on a 20" television.

That, fundamentally, was the point I (and custardy, too) was making.

Getting into the subject of perceived image at the same resolution sparks off a heated debate that has raged here many times.

Marty_J

Leopard wrote: »

Well, without going into the nuances of what picture different cables produce at the same resolution, you will surely concede that if one cable can produce a 1080p picture on my 52' television and another one can only manage 720p, the former is its worth its additional cost!

Of course it's worth having a cable that will transmit 1080p signals, but there doesn't have to be an additional cost. One can purchase HDMI 1.3 cables for a few pounds.

thescouselander

Leopard wrote: »

Well, without going into the nuances of what picture different cables produce at the same resolution, you will surely concede that if one cable can produce a 1080p picture on my 52' television and another one can only manage 720p, the former is its worth its additional cost!

The cheap cables I bought are fine with our 20" television because that only works at 720p anyway and has no 1080p option. Which is not a problem because we don't need more than 720p on a 20" television.

That, fundamentally, was the point I (and custardy, too) was making.

Getting into the subject of perceived image at the same resolution sparks off a heated debate that has raged here many times.

The point is if a cheap cable can support the maximum resolution you require over the distance you need then there is nothing to be gained with regards to picture/sound quality by replacing that cable with a more expensive one.

Leopard

Marty_J wrote: »

I'm sure you've seen what your Freesat picture looks like during particularly bad weather. There isn't much chance of mistaking it for a correct signal, and one certainly doesn't need mains conditioners or other esoterica to see the difference. Even my 83 year old grandmother can tell when her Freeview reception gets messed up.

Appalling English weather doesn't seem to degrade our FreeSat - :idea: should Sky be called "FeeSat"? - we get a great HD picture almost all the time.

The only thing that messes it up is when snow settles heavily on the dish. But we had that mounted adjacent to a bedroom window so it can be brushed off without us having to venture outdoors! :snow_laug