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Offline richtung

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HDMI Cable
« on: December 30, 2012, 11:07:46 am »
Morning folks,

One for the home AV experts here. Anyone recommend a decent HDMI cable to hook my my PS3 to my TV?

The current one i have is a cheap £1  jobie from Amazon. The last few months, the picture and sound would cut out intermittently for a few seconds and then back on. Ive read a few people who bought the same cable are having the same issues.

Just doing a bit of research and this cable from thatcable.com seems to get good reviews:
http://www.thatcable.com/product/HDMI-Male-to-Male-Cable-Type-A-%28Standard%29-Version-1-3BHDMI-1.3b

Anyone else recommend a cable they use? (looking around the £5 mark)

Thanks

Rich
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2012, 11:09:08 am »
Literally any cable will do mate... just get one off amazon. Certainly dont spend more than a tenner.  :happy2:
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2012, 11:33:06 am »
The one I got off Amazon was £1.03, including delivery. Never had any issues with it.
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2012, 12:14:47 pm »
there was a thread on this recently.

IIRC Saint Steve (who works in AV) mentioned that HDMI cables are built to a standard, and for non-professional use any cable will do. usually non-branded PS3 ones from HMV and the like are cheap (or at least they were when i bought mine years ago) and they've served me well including 3 house moves/changing set ups etc with no issues whatsoever. in fact i'm using it to type to you now (my PC is hooked up to my TV via the aforementioned HDMI cable).
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2012, 12:23:14 pm »
Game do one, but i'm only aware of one game shop open now... That is in Belfast.

So the ones currys sell for £40 - £80 are no good or not good enough for the eye to notice?

they deffently do look of better build quailty thou...

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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2012, 12:27:34 pm »
Quote from: scopes on December 30, 2012, 12:23:14 pm
So the ones currys sell for £40 - £80 are no good or not good enough for the eye to notice?

Just a waste of money.
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2012, 12:32:30 pm »
Like most AV the shorter the cable the better sound/picture, my HDMI is 1.5m long and has served me well since PS3 launch day when I collected mine from the local woolworths (remember them?)  :grin:
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2012, 12:42:51 pm »
I've got my Sky+ HD box hooked up with a 10m cable that was £23 from Amazon, the quality is fantastic :happy2:

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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2012, 12:58:14 pm »
How do they get away with it..

What is with the transmit speeds from 10.2 Gbps to 15.2Gbps?

or there abouts!
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2012, 01:10:19 pm »
Quote from: MattPoss on December 30, 2012, 12:42:51 pm
I've got my Sky+ HD box hooked up with a 10m cable that was £23 from Amazon, the quality is fantastic :happy2:

Matt

The cable quality might be.. but it wont make a jot of difference to the picture quality
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2012, 04:30:01 pm »
Quote from: richwig83 on December 30, 2012, 01:10:19 pm
Quote from: MattPoss on December 30, 2012, 12:42:51 pm
I've got my Sky+ HD box hooked up with a 10m cable that was £23 from Amazon, the quality is fantastic :happy2:

Matt

The cable quality might be.. but it wont make a jot of difference to the picture quality


Sorry Rich, I meant the picture quality is fantastic

Matt
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2012, 04:38:13 pm »
I received a fancy HDMI cable for free when I bought my 3D TV a few years ago, it had an RRP of £79.

It packed in just over a year later and I used a £5 gold plated cable that I bought from ASDA in 2008 and I could not notice any difference in the picture quality between the 2. The £5 cable is still in use now.
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2012, 04:41:37 pm »
Quote from: MattPoss on December 30, 2012, 04:30:01 pm
Quote from: richwig83 on December 30, 2012, 01:10:19 pm
Quote from: MattPoss on December 30, 2012, 12:42:51 pm
I've got my Sky+ HD box hooked up with a 10m cable that was £23 from Amazon, the quality is fantastic :happy2:

Matt

The cable quality might be.. but it wont make a jot of difference to the picture quality


Sorry Rich, I meant the picture quality is fantastic

Matt

But it would be the same on a 2 quid cable.
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Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2012, 04:44:23 pm »
Surely a digital signal is being transmitted or not....I can't see how a cable can affect this as its sending 0's and 1's unless I have misunderstood the technology?
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Re: Re: Re: HDMI Cable
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2012, 04:57:07 pm »
Quote from: Raffe on December 30, 2012, 04:44:23 pm
Surely a digital signal is being transmitted or not....I can't see how a cable can affect this as its sending 0's and 1's unless I have misunderstood the technology?

Exactly,  no more to be said ;D
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