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| Thread ID: 79718 | 2007-05-29 22:12:00 | HDMI Cable | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 554275 | 2007-05-29 22:12:00 | Does anyone know where in christchurch i can get an HDMI cable for around $20 new im not interested in paying hundreds of dollars for a cable that has all the high gloss and spin added to it to justify it being $60 to $300. A cheaper cable does the same job and from what ive been told by lots of tv technicians an expensive cable will make hardly any difference to sound or picture and you would hardly notice it. :cool: :) |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 554276 | 2007-05-29 22:35:00 | Actually, I have seen a side by side comparison between a cheap normal cables and the more expensive better cables and there IS a difference, a big difference infact... you can actually read text as it moves and is not jumpy and different colors stand out more :2cents: | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 554277 | 2007-05-29 22:49:00 | What type of tv were you watching it on lcd or plasma and did the shop have all the settings cranked up high like they normally do.To try and sell it to you. Any way you didn't answer my question at the beginning id be interested if you could help me please. |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 554278 | 2007-05-29 23:29:00 | Actually, I have seen a side by side comparison between a cheap normal cables and the more expensive better cables and there IS a difference, a big difference infact... you can actually read text as it moves and is not jumpy and different colors stand out more :2cents: It's a digital signal so faults should be evident as noise rather than the subtle changes that some people claim to see. HDMI still lights up the $$ signs at retailers so you're likely to be looking on TradeMe or budget computer shops like Dragon to get down to $20. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 554279 | 2007-05-30 00:17:00 | Just read a heap of reviews on google about HDMI cable and going by what i read even the cheapest cable can still perform as well as the most expensive one, they all said that their is not much difference in picture and sound quality providing you don't buy a cable any longer than four metres. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 554280 | 2007-05-30 08:23:00 | I am not sure on the TV they used in store 29" LCD I think, but I played with the cables on the new 42" Plasma here and the differences I said in my first post were evident on that and that was only on Sky Digital, no DVDs or anything HD I can't answer your question, I was only adding my :2cents :rolleyes: |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 554281 | 2007-05-31 02:05:00 | Are you sure you're not confusing HDMI with SCART? Last time I looked sky boxes did not provide an HDMI output. The quality loss you described is like saying that all your web pages have green-tinted images because you used cheap ethernet cable. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 554282 | 2007-05-31 05:33:00 | I am NOT talking specifically about HDMI cables... I am talking about crap/decent cables in general. I know what I am on about ;) With the more expensive cables, they have more than one wire for the three primary colours instead of one for all the colours, this makes each wire need to work less in a way. And yes, this is SCART to RCA I am using as an example |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 554283 | 2007-05-31 05:52:00 | I know what I am on about ;) This thread is about a data cable that carries a digital signal (0&1s) not the cables carrying analogue signals that AV Foamers get into so many arguments about. Have companies like Monster started selling gold plated HIFI SATA or IDE cables yet? I don't want to look :horrified |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 554284 | 2007-05-31 06:25:00 | IMO a cable is still a cable so I stand by my saying go cheap get crap, don't like it too bad! | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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