HDMI Brands Don't Matter 399
adeelarshad82 writes "I'm sure most of us looking for an HDMI cable have been in a situation where a store clerk sidles up, offers to help and points to some of the most expensive HDMI cables — because apparently these are 'superior cables' which we all absolutely need for the best possible home theater experience. Well, as it turns out the claims are, for the vast majority of home theater users, utter rubbish. According to tests ran on five different HDMI cables, ranging in price from less than $5 up to more than $100, HDMI brands really don't matter."
no (Score:2, Insightful)
shit
Re:True, but $5 are still worse... (Score:4, Insightful)
Buy two and keep a spare.
Brick and Mortar shenanigans (Score:4, Insightful)
ah, HDMI (Score:3, Insightful)
None of the benefits of analogue combined with none of the benefits of digital.
Compression: nope;
Error-checking/correction: nope;
Optical fiber: nope;
Text channel (e.g. for closed captioning): nope;
Content "protection": yep.
Re:preaching to the choir (Score:4, Insightful)
about digital.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Technically theres no such thing as a digital signal; look at it on an oscilloscope and its a far cry from the impossible squarewave used to represent them.
The receiver has to make a choice when to switch a 0 to a 1, with long slopes, noise and ringing this can cause problems even if its a "digital" signal.
Equipment today is good enough that its "never" a problem, signals get reclocked and cleaned up, crc etc.
So no, you shouldnt buy expensive hdmi cables, but you shouldnt mistake the abstract digital concept for its real, messy electrical representation either.
Re:True, for the most part... (Score:2, Insightful)
We know already (Score:4, Insightful)
So many stories have been posted about the false claims of expensive HDMI cables that this can hardly be considered news.
Re:no (Score:5, Insightful)
In a very real way, you can consider knowing everything the article talks about as the sort of minimum to even bother coming to Slashdot.