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shateredsoul:
maybe there is a difference, but I guess the point is that most ppl wouldn't really be able to tell the difference. In all my visits to best buy and other stores, only once did I feel the quality of the tv changed the experience.. but not sure if for the better. They were showing the fist pirates of the Caribbean and you could see all the make up, the hairs and stuff on their face, you could even tell which of the props were fake (i.e. fake wood).

I can't stand tvs that look grainny or too dark though =/ that I can see, but I can't see the diff between a super duper hdmi and a monoprice hdmi on the same tv

Samstag:
It's definitely not true that all hdmi cables will give you the same picture.  Most of the time a cheap cable will be fine for normal runs, but when you start getting into longer runs (or if you just have a really terrible short cable) you can get intermittent glitches.  They may show up as full picture glitches, but it's also possible that you'll lose only partial data and start seeing some pixellation.

But you still don't need expensive cables.  I buy monoprice cables, but will go for higher gauge cables with torroid filters for longer runs or devices that are really picky (like my PS3).

DaveMMR:
From CNET: http://reviews.cnet.com/2719-11276_7-226-1.html?tag=page;page

Some key points from that post:

--- Quote ---And if you get nothing else from reading this guide, you should remember one simple fact: There's no reason to pay extra for HDMI cables. (pp 1)
--- End quote ---


--- Quote ---You should never pay more than $10 for a standard six-foot HDMI cable. And despite what salesmen and manufacturers might tell you, there's no meaningful difference between the $10 cable and the $50 cable. Unless you see something obvious, such as dropouts or a flashing screen, the digital information transmitted by both cables is exactly the same--no cable can make the picture any better or any worse. (pp 3)
--- End quote ---

If you feel better spending a few more bucks, go for it.   But it may just be a placebo from what I've read.   My three dollar cables have done me quite well so far.

By the way, cables in general made #4 on the list of this list:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19022_5-ways-hi-tech-retailers-are-secretly-screwing-you.html


ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 11, 2011, 02:30:52 pm ---I'm not saying that you should buy expensive cables.  I buy all my cables from Monoprice and have never had a problem.  But is the case really as absolute as y'all are presenting it?  Or am I misunderstanding something?

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I think you have the cable part pegged.  What you're not accounting for is the fact that the movie on your disc, even if it's Blu Ray, is not of sufficient quality for the error rate of a cheap HDMI cable to be of real impact.  We're talking about consumer hardware.

shmokes:
That makes sense.  But I always see it presented as an absolute, like it would be impossible for a cheap cable to produce an inferior picture.  Specifically people say that your picture will be either perfect or non-existent because it's digital.  And that doesn't make sense, at least academically.  Cos I've seen artifacts and stuttering in digital feeds.  Often.  So it seemed that while it may be true in practice, cos HDMI has plenty of extra bandwidth or whatever, maybe people are actually misunderstanding the technical reasons that cheap cables are fine.  In short, they're good enough, but not just as good.  And, technically speaking, inferior cables can produce an inferrior digital image, it's just not something you have to worry about when it comes to HDMI.  Because the HDMI spec is apparently robust, not because of the difference between analog and digital signals.

At least that's how it makes sense in my head.

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