Cheapest 1m HDMI?
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http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/588...
£1.55 and FREE SHIPPING! You'll have enough for a Sherbet Dip-Dab as well now.
£1.55 and FREE SHIPPING! You'll have enough for a Sherbet Dip-Dab as well now.
davepoth said:
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/588...
£1.55 and FREE SHIPPING! You'll have enough for a Sherbet Dip-Dab as well now.
Perfect, thank you.£1.55 and FREE SHIPPING! You'll have enough for a Sherbet Dip-Dab as well now.
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
I've seen them in Poundland.
Not sure how much they are though? They never seem to put price tags on anything in that shop.
Oddly enough we were talking about this at work today.Not sure how much they are though? They never seem to put price tags on anything in that shop.
Let's assume they're a pound at Poundland. If I want to go to Poundland on my way home from work I need to park in town, which is 90p.
How wrong is it that I can get one shipped from wherever Play ship it from for less than it costs for me to walk into a shop a mile away and buy one.
I was surprised to recently see a recommendation NOT to use 1 metre HDMI cables with one particular piece of my AV equipment (Lumagen Radiance video processor), they recommended 2 metres or above. I asked on their forum why this was the case:
Lumagen reply said:
It's a Goldilocks story: The porage is too hot below 6 feet (2 meters).
HDMI outputs have cable "pre-EQ" and HDMI receivers have cable "post-EQ". This is a static setting in all the HDMI chips I know about. Because it is static the manufacturer needs to pick the "optimal cable length" to compensate using these EQ's.
I do not know exactly what this length is, but I suspect it is about 15 to 20 feet. So as you get to very short cables the EQ is incorrect and the signal is essentially "too hot" and the signal has aberations that the EQ - which is set for a longer cable - over compensates for and you lose signal. As you get longer the signal gets effectively "too cold" and the compensation no longer can extract the signal.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not saying that no cable under 6 feet works. It's just from long experience we have found a lot of people have issues at 3 feet, and some times even at 6 feet, that when they increased the cable length the HDMI connection locked in.
Might be useful if having issues with cables to try a slightly longer one...usually it's the other way round for me, but that's with 10 metre cables to projectors.HDMI outputs have cable "pre-EQ" and HDMI receivers have cable "post-EQ". This is a static setting in all the HDMI chips I know about. Because it is static the manufacturer needs to pick the "optimal cable length" to compensate using these EQ's.
I do not know exactly what this length is, but I suspect it is about 15 to 20 feet. So as you get to very short cables the EQ is incorrect and the signal is essentially "too hot" and the signal has aberations that the EQ - which is set for a longer cable - over compensates for and you lose signal. As you get longer the signal gets effectively "too cold" and the compensation no longer can extract the signal.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not saying that no cable under 6 feet works. It's just from long experience we have found a lot of people have issues at 3 feet, and some times even at 6 feet, that when they increased the cable length the HDMI connection locked in.
I bought one of these before they reduced the price...still find it unnerving having real people bursting out of the TV every time I switch it on!
Read the reviews...pmsl!
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethern...
Read the reviews...pmsl!
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethern...
OldSkoolRS said:
I was surprised to recently see a recommendation NOT to use 1 metre HDMI cables with one particular piece of my AV equipment (Lumagen Radiance video processor), they recommended 2 metres or above. I asked on their forum why this was the case:
I've got some magic beans the person on that forum might be interested in...Lumagen reply said:
It's a Goldilocks story: The porage is too hot below 6 feet (2 meters).
HDMI outputs have cable "pre-EQ" and HDMI receivers have cable "post-EQ". This is a static setting in all the HDMI chips I know about. Because it is static the manufacturer needs to pick the "optimal cable length" to compensate using these EQ's.
I do not know exactly what this length is, but I suspect it is about 15 to 20 feet. So as you get to very short cables the EQ is incorrect and the signal is essentially "too hot" and the signal has aberations that the EQ - which is set for a longer cable - over compensates for and you lose signal. As you get longer the signal gets effectively "too cold" and the compensation no longer can extract the signal.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not saying that no cable under 6 feet works. It's just from long experience we have found a lot of people have issues at 3 feet, and some times even at 6 feet, that when they increased the cable length the HDMI connection locked in.
Might be useful if having issues with cables to try a slightly longer one...usually it's the other way round for me, but that's with 10 metre cables to projectors.HDMI outputs have cable "pre-EQ" and HDMI receivers have cable "post-EQ". This is a static setting in all the HDMI chips I know about. Because it is static the manufacturer needs to pick the "optimal cable length" to compensate using these EQ's.
I do not know exactly what this length is, but I suspect it is about 15 to 20 feet. So as you get to very short cables the EQ is incorrect and the signal is essentially "too hot" and the signal has aberations that the EQ - which is set for a longer cable - over compensates for and you lose signal. As you get longer the signal gets effectively "too cold" and the compensation no longer can extract the signal.
PLEASE NOTE: We are not saying that no cable under 6 feet works. It's just from long experience we have found a lot of people have issues at 3 feet, and some times even at 6 feet, that when they increased the cable length the HDMI connection locked in.
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
I've got some magic beans the person on that forum might be interested in...
Why? It's not like they were trying to sell HDMI cables as they aren't even a supplier, though he is the VP (or some similar position) of Lumagen IIRC. The rest of the thread was relating to issues a Lumagen owner was having with 3D and I believe that replacing shorter cables with longer ones did resolve the issue in their setup...not even particularly expensive cables at that, just longer.Anyway, I just thought it might be useful to share incase it helps. FWIW I'm using pretty basic Amazon/CPC cables in my projector setup without issues: Although my projector isn't 3D I've tested the 'chain' at the most demanding data rate I could by setting my BluRay player to 36 bit output and 1080/60p and the projector (10 metre cable, plus 1.8 metre cable from player to Lumagen) displayed this signal without issues.
OldSkoolRS said:
Why? It's not like they were trying to sell HDMI cables as they aren't even a supplier, though he is the VP (or some similar position) of Lumagen IIRC. The rest of the thread was relating to issues a Lumagen owner was having with 3D and I believe that replacing shorter cables with longer ones did resolve the issue in their setup...not even particularly expensive cables at that, just longer.
Ok, here's the reason why it's a load of crap. How do you EQ a digital signal? It's either on, or off.Too late now as you already have one, but £1.22 for a 1.8M cable, anyone beat that?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=...
Silverbullet767 said:
Too late now as you already have one, but £1.22 for a 1.8M cable, anyone beat that?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=...
Oh god I've been done!!http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=...
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