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| 806314 | 2009-09-14 10:25:00 | What the hell do people think is happening in cheap cables? Well friend has been investigating all this hype about special quality cables versus cheap ones. What he has found so far is the cheap ones fall apart. That is, physically. Flimsy crap connectors. Quality as in picture etc? Remains hype so far........or maybe its the falling apart thing that degrades quality before it disintegrates totally. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 806315 | 2009-09-14 16:27:00 | oh #5, I just connected my video card via HDMI cable to plasma screen. The cable alone was (mid range) $250 for 2.4m. Top price I seen for a HDMI cable was $450 for 1m. Also realise that if you run HDMI (which you must do for picture quality) will not supply sound. i.e. you will need to run a seperate sound cable as the HDMI will run from your video card which will not do sound. Do not go cheap and try VGA to a big screen, it sucks, I even tried DVi to VGA, bad, bad, bad...HDMI and seperate sound Can't agree with you there . I use a 40" screen at the moment through D-sub 15 pin (en.wikipedia.org) and I'm quite satisfied with the picture (I use a Full-HD LCD Samsung TV) , probably the picture would be greater through HDMI - don't know because I control mutiple computers through a KVM switch which got D-sub out. Two of the computers I control at present got HDMI out and one of them has been put through the HDMI input and it produced a nice picture , but as written I'm quite satisfied with the great picture I get using D-sub and haven't tried the PC(s) that I uses the most through HDMI !. Also with respect to the : "if you run HDMI (which you must do for picture quality) will not supply sound. i.e. you will need to run a seperate sound cable as the HDMI will run from your video card which will not do sound" Then I think that it depends on both the Graphicscard and the motherboard/soundcard. I don't know if you were referring to specific setups (like the Radeon HD 4830) or if you made a general statement but the ATI's with HDMI out I've seen (don't think that Radeon HD 4830 got a HDMI plug , why it is not "completely HDMI ready") apparently channel the sound through the HDMI themselves. And some motherboards support a SPDIF out to hook up to the type of Graphics-card that got direct HDMI out but needs SPDIF in (like the Geforce series I've seen) so that might work OK (Haven't cared to try yet! - just setup my Geforce 9800GT 1024MB Green edition and connected it's SPDIF in with SPDIF from the motherboard). |
FIAT LUX (15168) | ||
| 806316 | 2009-09-14 16:53:00 | Well friend has been investigating all this hype about special quality cables versus cheap ones. What he has found so far is the cheap ones fall apart. That is, physically. Flimsy crap connectors. Quality as in picture etc? Remains hype so far........or maybe its the falling apart thing that degrades quality before it disintegrates totally. I used to work for a firm who sells high end audio and they / we used to connect the plugs to cables ourselves. |
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