Plotloss - quick question on HDMI cables
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Plotloss (or anyone else in the biz),
I know the answer could be "how long is a piece of string" but how much should I expect to pay for a HDMI cable? I've seen them range from £15 to £80 and above. I know with cabling the more you pay the better you get (especially for audiophiles) but what do you recommed for below two setups???
I'll be connected one DVD recorder to a 42" plasma, and another DVD recorder to a 27" LCD.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Ta
Matt
I know the answer could be "how long is a piece of string" but how much should I expect to pay for a HDMI cable? I've seen them range from £15 to £80 and above. I know with cabling the more you pay the better you get (especially for audiophiles) but what do you recommed for below two setups???
I'll be connected one DVD recorder to a 42" plasma, and another DVD recorder to a 27" LCD.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Ta
Matt
Broadly speaking, any will do.
No sense in going mad on pure silver etc etc etc cable nonsense.
You want a fair level of quality to ensure the connections twixt plug and cable are good to reduce reflection and you want to keep them as short as possible to eliminate skew (as the R, G and B are carried on seperate conductors so you have the potential for one of the component parts to arrive at the screen before the others causing degredation). Also being digital the signal is prone to 'cliff effect' after a certain distance where the signal degrades so much its worthless but this only happens on very long cables, anything over 50ft or so needs injectors to boost it.
In summary, like SCART, good but not stupid.
No sense in going mad on pure silver etc etc etc cable nonsense.
You want a fair level of quality to ensure the connections twixt plug and cable are good to reduce reflection and you want to keep them as short as possible to eliminate skew (as the R, G and B are carried on seperate conductors so you have the potential for one of the component parts to arrive at the screen before the others causing degredation). Also being digital the signal is prone to 'cliff effect' after a certain distance where the signal degrades so much its worthless but this only happens on very long cables, anything over 50ft or so needs injectors to boost it.
In summary, like SCART, good but not stupid.
Decent one on the Plasma and cheaper on the LCD.
Wholly depends on what you're comfortable spending and if you don't mind a stiffer, less flexible one.
Personally (ex-audiophile) I'd opt for £30-60 mark depending on the above. The more costly on the Plasma, but only after checking both to see if there's any discernible difference on either display.
Wholly depends on what you're comfortable spending and if you don't mind a stiffer, less flexible one.
Personally (ex-audiophile) I'd opt for £30-60 mark depending on the above. The more costly on the Plasma, but only after checking both to see if there's any discernible difference on either display.
As a business we currently try to stay away from any lead over 10m and we currently have a problem with the content protection hand shaking between to pioneer pieces of kit over a 10m lead. Works fine with a non HDCP player and Sky HD though.
However I have just been told that it could be the Pioneer kit rather than the lead
However I have just been told that it could be the Pioneer kit rather than the lead
well the plasma is Pioneer and the LCD is Samsung. Both hooked up to Sony RDR-HXD860's. The plasma is also hooked up to Sky and amp/receiver, PS2 etc, etc. Not sure we'll bother with multiroom as Samsung has freeview built in and that should be good enough. The Plasma is wall mounted in space cut in to chimney breast, with all additional kit on stand in alcove next to chimney breast. And Samsung LCD will probably remain on its stand, sat on the DVD recorded.
As such distance to kit isn't going to be more than a couple of meters for the plasma and less for the LCD.
As such distance to kit isn't going to be more than a couple of meters for the plasma and less for the LCD.
Plotloss said:
Broadly speaking, any will do.
No sense in going mad on pure silver etc etc etc cable nonsense.
You want a fair level of quality to ensure the connections twixt plug and cable are good to reduce reflection and you want to keep them as short as possible to eliminate skew (as the R, G and B are carried on seperate conductors so you have the potential for one of the component parts to arrive at the screen before the others causing degredation). Also being digital the signal is prone to 'cliff effect' after a certain distance where the signal degrades so much its worthless but this only happens on very long cables, anything over 50ft or so needs injectors to boost it.
In summary, like SCART, good but not stupid.
No sense in going mad on pure silver etc etc etc cable nonsense.
You want a fair level of quality to ensure the connections twixt plug and cable are good to reduce reflection and you want to keep them as short as possible to eliminate skew (as the R, G and B are carried on seperate conductors so you have the potential for one of the component parts to arrive at the screen before the others causing degredation). Also being digital the signal is prone to 'cliff effect' after a certain distance where the signal degrades so much its worthless but this only happens on very long cables, anything over 50ft or so needs injectors to boost it.
In summary, like SCART, good but not stupid.
Are you sure about the RGB bit with it all being digital? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Def
Plotloss said:
Pioneers have a known issue with Sky boxes over HDMI.
The Sky box I have doesn't have HDMI (I guess only HD boxes do????? of which mine currently isn't one) so the Pioneer will be connected by Scart to the Pioneer.
Or are you saying that a Pioneer TV with HDMI to a DVD recorder will somehow screw up the compatibility with a TV and a Sky box ????
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