Tesco Hudl HDMI cable.

clangnuts

Bought a HDMI micro cable for my Tesco Hudl from Poundland, for er. £1. :money:

Works a treat, and £14 cheaper than the 'Official' Tesco Hudl cable, although the Poundland one is only 1 metre long.

HTH.

westwood68

HDMI is digital so it either works or it doesn't. The idea of having 'gold plated' connectors and other selling points is irrelevant.

enkoda

westwood68 wrote: »

HDMI is digital so it either works or it doesn't. The idea of having 'gold plated' connectors and other selling points is irrelevant.

Generally, so long as the HDMI cable is at least v1.3 compliant (or v1.4 if you want 3D, audio & ethernet) then any cable for runs 15m or less should be fine.
Gold plated connectors won't tarnish and certainly do nothing to "aid the signal" as I've heard Currys staff telling customers....

Coraline

The people in high street electronics shops are not to be trusted lol...even if you're paying more than 2 quid for an HDMI cable you're getting ripped off.

I've been using the same cheapo cables for six years and there's no difference. I got suckered into buying "monster cables" the first time the whole HD thing started when I was living in The States. Never again! (Paid over $100 USD just to hook up my HD telly to the DVD player).

God I was stupid.

Robisere

Gold connectors are actually a cause of faults. You insert the (soft metal) gold HDMI cable into a (hard metal) socket enough times, result will eventually be a faulty connection - bad picture and/or poor sound.

It's a con.

davehills

westwood68 wrote: »

HDMI is digital so it either works or it doesn't. The idea of having 'gold plated' connectors and other selling points is irrelevant.

Not entirely true. If the cable is so bad that you get corrupted data (Which can happen) then you will get a poor picture out of the other end.

In addition, some HDMI cables don't implement EDID properly, which is used to identify the spec of the screen that is connected, thus the screen gets set up wrong.

However, most cheap cables will be OK.

davehills

Do you have a pic of the cable you bought? What did it say on the packet?

I'd like to recommend it to some peeps if it works.

Avoriaz

clangnuts wrote: »

Bought a HDMI micro cable for my Tesco Hudl from Poundland, for er. £1. :money:

Works a treat, and £14 cheaper than the 'Official' Tesco Hudl cable, although the Poundland one is only 1 metre long.

HTH.

A cheap and basic cable will probably work just as well as more expensive cables.

What it probably won't do is last as long if subjected to repeated stresses by being pulled and pushed in and out of sockets regularly or by being repeatedly bent if you move the TV from side to side.

As you are unlikely to do that, you have probably made the right buying choice.

When I bought my first HD HDMI TV a few years ago I bought three HDMI cables for about £4.99 each from ThatCable.com on line.

I decided that, as I do move the TV from side to side depending on where I am sitting, I wanted a decent cable that would last. Yes, I know I could have bought new £1 cables every few years for less money but I figured that spending a few pounds more for better constructed cables was probably worth while.

That choice was right for me. Your choice was right for you.

John_Gray

Avoriaz wrote: »

That choice was right for me. Your choice was right for you.

I think you would have a lot of difficulty in establishing both these theses philosophically!
Is there any way you can determine absolutely whether better choices were not available, both for you and the other person?

clangnuts

davehills wrote: »

Do you have a pic of the cable you bought? What did it say on the packet?

I'd like to recommend it to some peeps if it works.

I don't have a picture, but I can tell you it's the Micro HDMI 1m cable that Poundland sell.

They also sell the normal size HDMI cable, so be careful to buy the correct one, if it's for the Hudl.

josie

Wish I'd read this first! I bought a £9 one from Asda for my Hudl. However, when trying to watch a film, it keeps losing the signal & flickering / jumping. Anyone got any ideas please. I see someone else having this problem as I've googled it, but they don't seem to have fixed it either. The screen on the Hudl doesn't jump. TIA.