Having finally convinced myself that I have to have Sky HD otherwise the quality of my life will suffer, I'm faced with pondering over a subject I have often lost myself in thought with.
I have a really not all that special 'HD Ready' 32" LCD TV. Until I buy that 1080p TV that I really need, I find myself wondering if I can at least improve the quality of my current viewing with the purchase of a more expensive HDMI cable.
The point I wrestle with here, is that whereas I can mentally justify expensive speaker cables, to improve the analogue signal delivered to the speakers, surely with a digital connection there would be no improvement? Digital data, along with checksums to ensure that the data has arrived at the receiving end exactly as it has been transmitted from the source, should surely mean that it either works to provide an exact digital replica of data at each end, or it just doesn't work.
Am I missing something here? There always seem to be a number of myths and legends. I have been told in the past by a supposedly well respected high street retailer such rubbish as "An anologue RCA cable will not carry digital data, such as a coaxial audio out, and therefore will not even produce sound", so I tend to be rather sceptical.
What views do you all have?
I have a really not all that special 'HD Ready' 32" LCD TV. Until I buy that 1080p TV that I really need, I find myself wondering if I can at least improve the quality of my current viewing with the purchase of a more expensive HDMI cable.
The point I wrestle with here, is that whereas I can mentally justify expensive speaker cables, to improve the analogue signal delivered to the speakers, surely with a digital connection there would be no improvement? Digital data, along with checksums to ensure that the data has arrived at the receiving end exactly as it has been transmitted from the source, should surely mean that it either works to provide an exact digital replica of data at each end, or it just doesn't work.
Am I missing something here? There always seem to be a number of myths and legends. I have been told in the past by a supposedly well respected high street retailer such rubbish as "An anologue RCA cable will not carry digital data, such as a coaxial audio out, and therefore will not even produce sound", so I tend to be rather sceptical.
What views do you all have?
What would you all do in this situation?
