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5.0 beyond 5 stars There's no reason to pay much for an HDMI cable, April 27, 2009
This review is from: 6ft BLUE Advanced HDMI Cable, Supports as many as 1600p exclusively suitable for PS3, Playstation 3, Denon AVR, Sony Bravia, Samsung LCD, 1080p, HDMI, Blueray Players
[Anyone remembers the old "I am not intending to spend an awful lot for this purpose muffler" commercial?]
Just if someone may feel guilty for not paying much more for, this is the ditto, let's look at one of our top of the range offers in premium HDMI,
Monster HDMI 1000HD Ultra-High Speed HDMI Cable (2 meters) and participate in a quick comparison.
For significantly less, the BLUE Advanced supports the HDMI 1.3a/b standard. Any HDMI 1.3 cable can transport as much as 10.2 Gbit/s. Hmmm... I guess the Monster is much better, right? Well... it "guarantees an avowed cable bandwidth of 10.2" Okay, women and men Monster also supports "x.v.Color, and Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD". It turns out that, all of the above, even more, are part of the HDMI 1.3 specs and they are generally fully held up by every cable that complies within the standard which enable it to be had for around 95% less through the Premium Gold. The expensive brand presentation simply enumerates the HDMI 1.3 specs that it being HDMI 1.3 compliant has been a really and. Isn't a big deal. A good cable which costs 95% less is HDMI 1.3 compliant.
My suggestion: if you think that this proponents of the expensive brand have a point when they claim that their method is additional durable, buy TWO Blue Advanced wires nevertheless pay significantly less than one half of what you would pay for one with the expensive ones.
My personal expertise: I've never paid 'a lot' with an HDMI cable this is because makes no sense to offset more. I took home just one of the 'expensive' ones once because salesman promised to bring it back easily wasn't amazed by the differences. It made zero difference and that i returned it.
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The following may very well be HDMI 1.3 specs and any certified HDMI 1.3 cable may 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 list of CEC commands (only on HDMI 1.3a,b,c)
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