HDMI cables question

BikerEd

almillar wrote: »

See my response in your other thread. Some people will say that you don't need high quality cables 'because it's digital' and therefore 0s and 1s and how can that become degraded?

If the 0's are especially fat they can get stuck going down cheap cable. Same for the 1's if the bend radius is too tight on a coil of cable. Basic computer science.

As for Fleabay, I have bought cheap firewire cables from two different suppliers and both were crap - one had poor connectors and fell out frequently, the others just didn't work. Firewire cables are digital, just like HDMI, so it is wrong to assume that all cheap cables are as good as the most expensive ones. Caveat emptor is the word(s) of the day.

juliescot

BikerEd wrote: »

If the 0's are especially fat they can get stuck going down cheap cable. Same for the 1's if the bend radius is too tight on a coil of cable. Basic computer science.

As for Fleabay, I have bought cheap firewire cables from two different suppliers and both were crap - one had poor connectors and fell out frequently, the others just didn't work. Firewire cables are digital, just like HDMI, so it is wrong to assume that all cheap cables are as good as the most expensive ones. Caveat emptor is the word(s) of the day.

Not that I am doubting you but can you provide some links for the above.

espresso

juliescot wrote: »

Not that I am doubting you but can you provide some links for the above.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Marty_J

BikerEd wrote: »

If the 0's are especially fat they can get stuck going down cheap cable. Same for the 1's if the bend radius is too tight on a coil of cable. Basic computer science.

As for Fleabay, I have bought cheap firewire cables from two different suppliers and both were crap - one had poor connectors and fell out frequently, the others just didn't work. Firewire cables are digital, just like HDMI, so it is wrong to assume that all cheap cables are as good as the most expensive ones. Caveat emptor is the word(s) of the day.

I find when I watch video over an expensive Firewire cable, the colours have real "zing", and the sound definitely has more "ping". Firewire is faster than USB too, so if it's a bad movie, I don't have to watch it for as long.

Also, when I open a text document with the expensive cable, it improves the grammar and spelling.

I hear that's how Dan Brown wrote his latest book.

juliescot

Marty_J wrote: »

I find when I watch video over an expensive Firewire cable, the colours have real "zing", and the sound definitely has more "ping". Firewire is faster than USB too, so if it's a bad movie, I don't have to watch it for as long.

Also, when I open a text document with the expensive cable, it improves the grammar and spelling.

I hear that's how Dan Brown wrote his latest book.

I suspect that is beacuse your cable runs in a straight line so as to avoid the nasty kinks and bends that will trap the unsuspecting 0s and allow the slim 1s to hurtle by as well.

Marty_J

juliescot wrote: »

I suspect that is beacuse your cable runs in a straight line so as to avoid the nasty kinks and bends that will trap the unsuspecting 0s and allow the slim 1s to hurtle by as well.

My cable has no bends; when I need to make a turn, it runs around the circumference of the Earth in a straight line.

It's worth it for the lack of discombobulation in the deep blacks, which have now rocketed from "woolly", whizzed past "salubrious", and are now happily pushing their way past "delightfully naughty".

Anyone who doubts me need only remind themselves that I have a very expensive pair of glasses.

juliescot

As an aside I have all my own digits which I reuse on a daily basis.
They have yet to let me down and they have been so good they have been able to let me pick my own nose.

Marty_J

Bless you and your digits, you crazy rhinotillexomaniac you.

I hope however, you don't indulge in a mucophagic fashion.

juliescot

Marty_J wrote: »

Bless you and your digits, you crazy rhinotillexomaniac you.

I hope however, you don't indulge in a mucophagic fashion.

rhinotillexomaniac - not at all. It is certainly not compulsive.

mucophagic fashion - certainly not. Disgusting. (too salty)

Marty_J

juliescot wrote: »

mucophagic fashion - certainly not. Disgusting. (too salty)

How do you know?