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[badmanners]

because HDMI cable is digital (10101110 etc) it either works or it doesnt work.....simple as that really.

I have a Van den Hull cable and an ebay special......no difference whatsoever...apart from price.

As said before, buy the correct length you need at the price you want to pay :-)

Have a look on ebay for ThatCable
or ThatCable.com

[Magpie]

hmmmm, I disagree, to a point.

not all HDMI cables will do Full HD/1080P at 24fps, so buy-cheap-buy-twice.

as your screen is for gaming then you'll have no issues with a cheap/cheerful HDMI lead.

magpie.

[Ray]

Try a look here.

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...mi+lead&page=2

page 1 had some more expensive cables.

The only thing stellar about comet is the price.

Ray

[rockhopper]

An HDMI cable is simply a glorified USB cable. If you run your printer with a cheap USB cable do you get fuzzy prints with the black not very black etc?
No of course you don't!

Someone far more qualified than me once said that if you stick a piece of spaghetti into the back your TV and you get a picture you won't get a better picture by using a £100 HDMI cable.

[clint]

[quote=badmanners]because HDMI cable is digital (10101110 etc) it either works or it doesnt work.....simple as that really.

Spot on. Don't waste your money.


Clint.

[Jasper]

Well,I can tell you this:

I bought a cheap as chips HDMI cable for £9.99 and had white speckles when playing a movie in 1080i.

I swapped it for another,same thing.

I bought a Panasonic at £19.99 and hey presto,no snow.The fact it is next to 1/2 dozen power cables and scarts suggests that there was an interference issue and the more expensive one had better screening.

[Gobert23]

I have to admit that I'm a little confused by the whole 'cabling' and 'HDMI' (of various standards) thing...

I've spent pretty reasonable monies on cabling for my stereo system, but was talked out of spending equal sums in cables for the Blu-Ray to screen.

The explanation that, the whole point of a digital signal was that there would be no degradation, seemed to make sense.

How exactly would 'analogue' background interference effect a digital signal?

Anyways, I've got a pretty chunky HDMI cable, only in the thought that I don't intend to have to buy another...