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PhilC
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2nd Jul 07 at 19:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'm looking for a HDMI lead to go from my home cinema system to the TV. It only needs to be around 1m. Is there really that much difference when going with an expensive lead?

It's just a HD upscaler, so it's not true HD.

Thanks,

Phil
John
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2nd Jul 07 at 19:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

No difference by buying expensive ones, especially over 1m.

Ebuyer or ebay.
PhilC
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2nd Jul 07 at 19:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Ta.

I went with mid-range

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=260132115881&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=016
John
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2nd Jul 07 at 19:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Far too expensive.

I paid 4 quid for 3 metres from ebuyer, feels very high quality, especially since i was expecting cheap rubbish.
Jamescorsa97
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2nd Jul 07 at 19:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

what john said
kz
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panasonic give free ones now with their products. very good too... cause im fussy with cables, usually spend around £40
Doug
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HDMI leads can be dirt cheap and still give the same quality as a expensive one!
John
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If you are spending 40 quid on an hdmi cable you are wasting at least 30 quid of it though.
PhilC
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quote:
Originally posted by kz
panasonic give free ones now with their products. very good too... cause im fussy with cables, usually spend around £40


never got one with mine!!!
kz
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quote:
Originally posted by PhilC
quote:
Originally posted by kz
panasonic give free ones now with their products. very good too... cause im fussy with cables, usually spend around £40


never got one with mine!!!


was it a 2007 model? the 2006 ones dont come with them

ive never bought an HDMI cable personally. the last cable i bought was VGA - VGA and that was £40 so used that as an exmaple. i mostly have monster cables for my audio... tend me be quite good and expensive lol

£75 for a 1m HMDI cable! bit too much imo
PhilC
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2nd Jul 07 at 22:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Indeed... even with staff price at maplin, they were a bit much!!
Pablo
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4th Jul 07 at 07:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I got a cheap maplins one, upgraded to a Monster and so much better. worth spending the money!!
John
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What is better about it?

How can you tell the difference between a cheap hdmi cable and a good one, especially over short distances?
Pablo
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4th Jul 07 at 08:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I have 2meter cables, and yes I can defo tell the difference between cheap and good cable. Im using Cambridge Audio 89 DVD player, top marks for pic and Im very happy with my setup now.
_Allan_
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4th Jul 07 at 08:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Got one of these and they are well made. Not too expensive.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120136697185
Pablo
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4th Jul 07 at 08:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Monster-HDMI-400-2M-HDMI-HDMI-Playstation-3-etc-RRP-99_W0QQitemZ180135139117QQihZ008QQcategoryZ32837QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by Pablo
I have 2meter cables, and yes I can defo tell the difference between cheap and good cable. Im using Cambridge Audio 89 DVD player, top marks for pic and Im very happy with my setup now.


Sounds like you got a dodgy cable then as for a cable to be called a HDMI cable it needs to have an error rate so low that it would not be noticable i.e. 1 pixel incorrect ever couple seconds (that 1 pixel in 1 frame so 1/50 or 1/60 of a second)
Anything more than that and it does not adhere to the HDMI standard.

As said a digital signal is a digital signal. It either works or doesn't i.e. you see blocky picture or perfect. Digital cables cannot affect how the picture looks in terms of brightness, colour etc

The only time you should start to see a difference is where you are running longer cables
Pablo
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4th Jul 07 at 09:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Maybe was a dodgy cable but still seems to be much better! I dont think the cable is dodgy, digital signals can still be effected if the cable is cheap and not sheilded like more expensive cables!

 
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