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About to move on from the world of Scart! Need to connect 32" Samsung HD 1080 non-smart TV with Panasonic HD smart PVR. The Amazon ad suggests a £4.95 HDMI cable. Is this penny-pinching? Would I see a difference in quality if I paid more?
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About to move on from the world of Scart! Need to connect 32" Samsung HD 1080 non-smart TV with Panasonic HD smart PVR. The Amazon ad suggests a £4.95 HDMI cable. Is this penny-pinching? Would I see a difference in quality if I paid more?
It's part of a massive scam to make lots of money from gullible consumers with more money than sense) In fact a £1.00 HDMI cable from Poundland will almost certainly work just as well, if it does not, take it back it's faulty. Try a blind test, ask a mate to tell you which HDMI cable you are using (£1.00 - £100.00). |
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Try a blind test, ask a mate to tell you which HDMI cable you are using (£1.00 - £100.00).
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In the early days when HDMI cables started, so many people were being absolutely ripped off with sales staff saying you must have an expensive cable to get a good signal........ some people still are being conned with this bullshit.
It was just a total scam........ they were all at it, Currys, Comet, Richer Sounds etc etc. |
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To do that you'd have to buy a £100 cable!
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Some people just have too much money:
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digita...pr_product_top http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioque...=1218324437192 |
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You only need to buy more expensive cables for a long run. If you only need 1-2 m, then the ones off eBay for a £1 will do.
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You only need to buy more expensive cables for a long run. If you only need 1-2 m, then the ones off eBay for a £1 will do.
) to get a decent lead.I needed a 15m long lead to run to a ceiling mounted projector in a meeting room at work, got a Pro-Signal cable from CPC for under 20 quid. Works absolutely perfectly. |
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I needed a 15m long lead to run to a ceiling mounted projector in a meeting room at work, got a Pro-Signal cable from CPC for under 20 quid. Works absolutely perfectly.
![]() As everyone has said, it's digital - so picture quality isn't affected by the lead - a £1 one works exactly the same as any higher price you can imagine. |
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I wouldn't say it's quite so cut and dried.
I connected the HDMI2 ARC from my TV to my amp using a £1.25 eBay cable and found it was subject to external RF interference - the audio would drop out when someone turned on a light switch, for example. Swapping it with the slightly thicker cable that came free with my PVR eliminated the dropouts, and the PVR seems quite happy with the thin cable. |
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Get one from a Poundshop.
Ignore the HDMI experts on here that will now take this thread into a dozen pages & try to baffle you with made up HDMI science!! |
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Some people just have too much money:
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digita...pr_product_top http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioque...=1218324437192 Quote:
Get one from a Poundshop.
Ignore the HDMI experts on here that will now take this thread into a dozen pages & try to baffle you with made up HDMI science!! |
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Ignore the HDMI experts on here that will now take this thread into a dozen pages & try to baffle you with made up HDMI science!!
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I connected the HDMI2 ARC from my TV to my amp using a £1.25 eBay cable and found it was subject to external RF interference - the audio would drop out when someone turned on a light switch, for example. Swapping it with the slightly thicker cable that came free with my PVR eliminated the dropouts, and the PVR seems quite happy with the thin cable.
It is not about pseudo-science with exotic materials and construction techniques but about decent manufacturing quality. A dodgy connection in the plug is always going to cause problems. |
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Some people just have too much money:
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digita...pr_product_top http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioque...=1218324437192
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cheapest one that works. pound shop fine.
the pound shop cables do not meet any official spec - and perform slighty worse -but that dont matter cos its digital ... on a short cable there is no practical difference. if the picture looks ok then it is ! you will instantly notice any "missing pixels". especially on HD.if none then that is as good as it can be. and a more expensive cable will not make a difference. |
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.... the issue is "the digital cliff" look tht up if u want .......
hdmi is designed for short range high rate data transfer. so convolutional coding is absent and the error detection is only on the signalling scheme used which is farily crude .... but if the picture looks ok then it is ! the pound shop cables are "any old wires used" and fail in respect of not being specified correct characteristic transmission line. but this doesnt matter over short distances ..... so who cares ? |
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the pound shop cables are "any old wires used" and fail in respect of not being specified correct characteristic transmission line. |
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.... the issue is "the digital cliff" look tht up if u want .......
hdmi is designed for short range high rate data transfer. so convolutional coding is absent and the error detection is only on the signalling scheme used which is farily crude .... but if the picture looks ok then it is ! the pound shop cables are "any old wires used" and fail in respect of not being specified correct characteristic transmission line. but this doesnt matter over short distances ..... so who cares ? The great thing about HDMI cable being able to carry video as well as audio signals demonstrates that perfectly because you can actually see there is no difference. |
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