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5.0 because of 5 stars There's you don't pay quite a bit a great HDMI cable, April 27, 2009
This review is from: 6ft BLUE Advanced HDMI Cable, Supports about 1600p exclusively manufactured for PS3, Xbox 360 console, Denon AVR, Sony Bravia, Samsung LCD, 1080p, HDMI, Blueray Players
[Anyone remembers this "I am not going to spend very much for doing this muffler" commercial?]
Just should someone may feel guilty for not paying a whole lot more for, simply the same task, let's look at one of our top quality offers in premium HDMI,
Monster HDMI 1000HD Ultra-High Speed HDMI Cable (2 meters) and perform quick comparison.
For not so, the BLUE Advanced supports the HDMI 1.3a/b standard. Any HDMI 1.3 cable can conduct as many as 10.2 Gbit/s. Hmmm... I suppose the Monster is more preferable, right? Well... it "guarantees a professional cable bandwidth of 10.2" Okay, even so the Monster also supports "x.v.Color, and Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD". It turns out that, all of the above, and better, are a part of the HDMI 1.3 specs and maybe they are fully supported by every cable that complies for your standard and may be had approximately 95% less on the Premium Gold. The expensive brand presentation simply enumerates the HDMI 1.3 specs as if it being HDMI 1.3 compliant had been a really problem. Decades a big deal. Obviously any good cable which costs 95% less is HDMI 1.3 compliant.
My suggestion: if you are which the proponents of the expensive brand make use of a point whenever they claim that their product is considerably more durable, buy TWO Blue Advanced wires but still pay considerably less than part of what you would pay for one for this expensive ones.
My personal expertise: I've never paid 'a lot' for any HDMI cable because doing so can't make sense shell out more. I took home some of the 'expensive' ones once considering that the salesman promised for taking it back considerably more than simply wasn't astounded by the particular gap. It made zero difference and I returned it.
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The following is the HDMI 1.3 specs and any certified HDMI 1.3 cable could support them.
Maximum signal bandwidth (MHz) 340
Maximum TMDS bandwidth (Gbit/s) 10.2
Maximum video bandwidth (Gbit/s) 8.16
Maximum audio bandwidth (Mbit/s) 36.86
Maximum Color Depth (bit/px) 48
Maximum resolution over single link at 24-bit/px 2560×1600p75
Maximum resolution over single link at 30-bit/px 2560×1600p60
Maximum resolution over single link at 36-bit/px 1920x1200p75
Maximum resolution over single link at 48-bit/px 1920×1200p60
sRGB
YCbCr
8 channel LPCM/192 kHz/24-bit audio capability
Blu-ray Disc video and audio at full resolution
Consumer Electronic Control (CEC)
DVD-Audio support
Super Audio CD (DSD) support
Deep Color
xvYCC
Auto lip-sync
Dolby TrueHD bitstream capable
DTS-HD Master Audio bitstream capable
Updated report on CEC commands (only on HDMI 1.3a,b,c)
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