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how many do I get/need to link up; playstation, dvd, vcr, bt vision box...tia guys.
Getting new telly, these gold HDMI cables any good/worth it?
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They're a complete con... in fact this applies to almost all "premium" cabling
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Amazon lists some of the gold plated ones starting from £1.50
http://www.amazon.co.uk/MicroVillag...9?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1262888070&sr=8-9
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Really? So all those before and after demos in comet/currys etc. are fookin bogus? Cheeky tw@ts, good job I don't shop with them, found a place that slaughters their prices by 25%...
Telly not arriving 'til next week now, 'kin deliveries all backed up due to the weather 🙄
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😛 tbh I don't watch that much tv, although we've got (at the last count) 4 in the house. I'm a big fan of world cinema so like to watch these foreign language films in relative perfection. Got a big 42" lcd tv in the front room wanted a smaller one for the rear room. Top bargain; LG 32", 1080, 100hz, 80,000:1, 0.01 milisecond response...for under £350 quid...🙂
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Pretty much.
Somewhat related: http://gizmodo.com/305549/james-ran...iles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better
Don't take this as meaning you can use a bent coat hanger instead, of course...
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no chance of me getting ripped off for the price of the leads, question is; do the leads work/make the picture superior to plain old scart leads? For an extra (combined) lay out of 15 quid tops it'd be well worth it...
Very unlikely that expensive cables will make any difference at all. HDMI is digital => small amounts of noise in the signal are irrelevant. A bit is either 0 or 1. If a cable is not performing properly, the symptoms would be incorrect pixels on the screen probably in clusters and should be very obvious. I've tried three HDMI cables including gold plated connectors and also DVI / HDMI converters and the picture on a 40" LCD Samsung looks just the same. If you are running very long lengths of HDMI cables there may be a case for looking into more expensive cables.
All this malarky probably stems from the old days of LPs and high quality audio pickups which produce a very low voltage analog signal fed to the audio pre-amp. Even small amounts of corrosion on connectors could adversely affect such a signal, and there is a plausible case for gold plating and high quality cables. Induced 50Hz mains hum was also a factor in mandating good cables. In modern digital systems at much higher voltages, it seems mostly a case of marketing nonsense.
All this malarky probably stems from the old days of LPs and high quality audio pickups which produce a very low voltage analog signal fed to the audio pre-amp. Even small amounts of corrosion on connectors could adversely affect such a signal, and there is a plausible case for gold plating and high quality cables. Induced 50Hz mains hum was also a factor in mandating good cables. In modern digital systems at much higher voltages, it seems mostly a case of marketing nonsense.
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Got telly today, we've watched two films without the hdmi and downloaded an HD (nature) test film and tbh I can't see how there can be any improvement on the quality of the ant colony documentary. Quality stuff thanks for the advice 🙂
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