jeffluckett;152334 Wrote: > I recently purchased an HDTV, and was agape at the cost of HDMI cables > that were readily available, so I started reading reviews of the > various cables to see if the cost could at all be justified. > > I found a review that tested a range of cables from a $10.00 no-name up > to the top-shelf offering from Monster costing over $100.00. > > In bench tests, they could find no measurable difference. In viewing > tests they actually found a difference ... the cheaper cables actually > ALL fared better than the Monster cable. > > The reason the Monster cable fared worse than the competition was due > to EXACTLY the reason that Monster justifies thier extreme cost. HDMI > connectors have no locking mechanism. The Monster cable turned out to > be so thick and heavy, it was pulling on the connector causing signal > dropout. Ironic, no? > > In the end, I bought a cheap cable off of eBay ... the picture is > beautiful.
Obviously! There is no need to test HDMI cables. Either they work or they don't. The whole business of testing them is stupidity. There are no timing issues with HDMI that can affect picture quality. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
