Comments on: Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Confirms HDMI Cable Scam!

By: alex

alex — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:12:16 +0000

HDMI is a scam altogether. Forget about the price differences in the stupid cable itself. The quality of HDMI is inferior to your regular A/V cable connections. If you have a digital TV and a DVD player with HDMI connections, you can A/B a film and clearly see that HDMI squeezes the audio and blanches the color.

Ridiculous
HD Guru

By: bms

bms — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:29:06 +0000

HDMIGuy, I’m sorry but any electrical engineer would be more than happy to explain to you that your theories are nonsense. Yes longer runs can cause problems but they do not halve the bandwidth. There’s no such thing as a ‘faster’ cable, only a bigger pipeline (bandwidth). I hope nobody takes your counter-advice too seriously.

By: Darrell Z DiZoglio

Darrell Z DiZoglio — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:54:03 +0000

Folks, I sold for a higher quality electronics retailer. Was very suspicious about rip off cable prices & instinctively new better. After thorough investigation & testing with HD cable TV & Blue Ray player on multiple HDMI wires using a real HD movie projector where the pixels are greatly enlarged to show detail I found: There really is no difference All HDMI wires worked well $6 each to
$250. It was disgusting. I was constantly brainwashed by my employers/managers/sales reps etc. to sell expensive cables & worthless warrantees! Not only are expensive “premium hdmi” wires a scam but so are those warrantees they sell.
Many folks are routinely turned away or ignored who request service. The retailer blames the service company, the service company blames the factory repair service personnel & they blame the retailer. Etc. Bottom line endless runaround & unreturned messages to management. I was so disgusted at this routine I quit to go into an honest profession. “Don’t be a sucker.” Failure rates of good TV’s are published in Consumer Reports website under Repair & Reliability Ratings.
Best Brands ==> Lowest failure rates like 2% no
warrantee needed ever!

By: HDMIGUY

HDMIGUY — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:33:50 +0000

As a manager of a higher end retail store i can demystify this thred for everyone. There is a big difference in the HDMI cables on the market, from $6 to $300. We test every tv that comes out with flat panel display software, same blu-ray for each tv. It has motion clips, color clips, and resolution clips, it is very good software. With a cheap HDMI cable you can see trails in most images where as with the better cables you cannot see these. This is due to the mbs transfer rate of these cables. to put it mildly some cables are faster than others, its like bandwith. So for things like cable or sat., who only broadcast images in compressed 1080I at best a cheap cable will produce a very similar image as a expensive cable. But when blu-ray (not all but most) comes into play its a new ball game. each time you add a gadget into the equation you double amount of data trying to be pushed though (and each time you double the length of the cable you cut the amount of data than can be transfered in half) the cable, ie X.V color, deep color, 1080p, etc…, things only blu-ray offers.
So bottom line, if you want to be cheap and feed your 2k+ tv with a 6 dollar hdmi go for it, but only on cable, with blu-ray please invest the extra money on the cable or just dont buy the player

By: morgan

morgan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:48:27 +0000

HDMI cable are one of the most ripoff scam there is, inspiretech sell a very good hdmi cable for around 5 bucks

http://www.inspiretech.com/c-31-hdmi-cables.aspx

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:42:25 +0000

I was in Circuit City the other day and saw a $199 6ft. HDMI cable – I was AMAZED. Talk about marketing.. The poor floor sales people have no idea either, especially after their brainwashing sessions from the cable manfacturer marketing drones. It’s really sad. Oh, and the $500 digital patch cable I’ve seen before takes the cake.. the performance of a sub – $1 RCA cable for… $500!

By: JCMB

JCMB — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:10:30 +0000

Here’s a very informative site on the topic:

http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/how-long-can-hdmi-run.htm

From everything I’ve been able to find there is no differance in performance between high and low cost cables in normal length runs.

By: Hifist

Hifist — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:14:23 +0000

If you use your hdmi-cables to deliver e.g. dvd-video, there aren’t differencies. But when you use higher (1.3) standards, blu-ray+truHD, you can’t get decent result with cheap wires. It’s not true that digital signal either goes through perfect, or not at all. Cheap wires cannot carry as much bandwidth in long runs (10 meters). I personally had problems with the picture, but it cleared out after changing the cable.

By: Helpful Hand

Helpful Hand — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:25:49 +0000

monoprice.com

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:38:52 +0000

I have purchased via internet (won’t name the company as I’m unsure about rules for that here) two 25 foot lengths of HDMI cable for 26.50$ delivered (each) to my house in Canada. They are of far sturdier construction than anything I’ve seen in local stores (where a 6 foot cable is typically 150$ or more) and I get excellent PQ from them. I will NEVER buy HDMI cables from a brick and mortar store (in fact, I will always buy them from where I got these as long as they remain in business). The HDMI cable scam is the worst of many cable scams as it draws more people into foolishly spending their money than any other cable type.