Thinking of buying expensive HDMI interconnects?

[Mark_G]

You might want to watch this first..

$12 cable vs $260 monster HDMI cable..

mms://a1777.v87520.c8752.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1777/8752/1203552418000/origin.media.cbc.ca/windows/marketplace/packing_the_deal.wmv

They could see no difference in picture performance, from viewing tests and bench testing.  Obviously the more expensive cable has better build quality, but that's all your extra $$$ are buying you...

Also bear in mind, these cables are carying digital signals.  Interconnects carrying analogue signals are a different thing, as signal losses and noise susceptabilty are much more of an issue with analog connections.

Even if you are buying analogue cables, it's food for thought...

[terran]

This does not surprise me.

As you say, digital signals are in any case more robust to any "lossy" issues.

Referring back to analog all the expensive cables that are sold for various "Hi Fi" or "Audiophile" equipment, almost all of them are a total con.

[richardfrost]

almost all of them are a total con.

No they're not. They make the people who buy them feel all smug and warm inside, like the people taking their placebo Prozac, or those people with picnic table sized spoilers on their bootlids.