HDMI cables question

aliEnRIK

duncansby wrote: »

Try these cables http://www.thatcable.com/
as recommended by what hifi http://www.whathifi.com/Review/ThatCable-HDMI/

They get glowing reviews and are only £5. However, having said that I play my dell through my plasma tv , especially BBC iplayer and picture and sound are fine using a cheapo HDMI, and save the good cable for bluray

Interesting link ~ "Compare the ThatCable HDMI to the free stuff, and you’ll immediately see – and hear – a big improvement.

Pictures are more stable and motion more assured, while even colours are a little more vivid and exact. Sound has more scale and detail, too. "

juliescot

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Interesting link ~ "Compare the ThatCable HDMI to the free stuff, and you’ll immediately see – and hear – a big improvement.

Pictures are more stable and motion more assured, while even colours are a little more vivid and exact. Sound has more scale and detail, too. "

Got to love those reviewers. Have to come up with something I suppose.

"Sound has more scale" - !!!!!!?

aliEnRIK

juliescot wrote: »

Got to love those reviewers. Have to come up with something I suppose.

"Sound has more scale" - !!!!!!?

Perhaps if you have speakers and an amp costing in the region of 2k + then youd hear a difference?

kwikbreaks

Folks with speakers and amps costing that much need to hear a difference to justify their outlay so it's a racing certainty that they will.

juliescot

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Perhaps if you have speakers and an amp costing in the region of 2k + then youd hear a difference?

It was the turn of phrase rather than whether or not you could hear a difference that I was commenting on.

Does it say what the review was testing it with?
And how much it cost?

u01jet4

Thank you to everyone who helped, I am now typing this on a 26" screen thanks to the Tesco value HDMI cable I picked up earlier. I'm still surprised that I literally just had to plug it in for it to work, it's great! Saves me replacing the cracked screen on my laptop now too which Dell told me would cost £180! very moneysaving :T

Thanks everyone :j

patman99

The only thing I found with the cheap cables is that the end connectors bend-up and loose contact if you regularly plug & unplug the cable.

kwikbreaks

Well my eBay specials turned up yesterday and I gave 2 of them a run through last night - absolutely no nasties at all running 1080p.

I tested with an upscaling DVD player that came free in the TV deal and a WD TV which I bought after seeing some recommendations for it on this site playing some HDTV programs I downloaded.

I'm assuming that 1080p is 1080p whatever the source and a real Blueray player which I don't have (or intend to buy until they and the disks hit a sensible price level) would work fine too.

I still have one cable from a different seller to check out - hdmi to dvi. I'll probably check that with my Mac Mini tonight.

The connectors look just fine to me and as these cables are 5m long and work well I seriously doubt that there is any need to pay huge sums for short ones. When higher specs than 1080p come along in years to come I'll need to replace the TV anyway so cables will be least of my worries.

CHR15

u01jet4 wrote: »

they seem to vary from £5-£40!

What is the big difference?

£35 :cool::cool::cool:

4743hudsonj

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i have a 5 meter hdmi cable off amazon marketplace for the grand price of £0.01 :money:

ok so there was £2 delivery but so what

it works absolutely fine

use it with one of my ps3's at 720p and looks great.