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General => The Shed => Topic started by: kt. on July 18, 2009, 23:18:35

Title: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: kt. on July 18, 2009, 23:18:35
The modern day scart lead is now a HDMI lead.  HDMI cables for HD and blu-ray vary in price drastically.  So what is the difference between one for £10 and one for £100 ??? ???  I do not recall such a price range in scart cables.
Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: Slug_killer on July 18, 2009, 23:30:54
Find a shop that will let you return the ones you dont want, or find a shop that will show you.

Obviously its quality, but can you see/hear the difference? Only you can know.
Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: grannyjanny on July 19, 2009, 07:38:19
Just asked OH & he got ours from Amazon market place £14 each. No problems with them.
Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: Baccy Man on July 19, 2009, 08:49:52
The primary difference is the brand name on them, a cable with a popular brand name will typically have at least a 300% mark up, an unknown brand will have a negligible mark up.
The more expensive ones may have more shielding but unless you live next door to an electrical substation or a radio transmitter then it is unlikely there will be enough external electrical noise to interfere with the signal on a cheap cable with comparatively little shielding.

You will not be able to see any difference in picture quality or hear any difference in sound quality between different brands of cable.
Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: siandc on July 19, 2009, 17:31:46
More expensive audio visual cables tend to have gold at the terminals as it doesn't tarnish and give a poor connection. However, this, in my opinion is stupid as gold is NOT a good electrical conductor ::) The more expensive cables as has been said above may well be better screened and are most likely constructed of individual cables with a higher number of strands which will conduct the signal better.
Unless you'll be running the cable for a long way you're unlikely to notice the difference. The cheapest of the cheap will probably be cheap for a reason.  ;)
Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: lewic on July 19, 2009, 17:35:22
One will be cited in the divorce case...
Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: nilly71 on July 19, 2009, 21:46:16
For nearly 100% users, there is no difference at all (unless your a geek with testing equipment ;D ).

The quality of the blueray/HD is so high and the tv's are so good that any lose of quality using a £10 cable won't really be noticable.

Neil

Title: Re: Whats the difference between a £10 & a £100 HDMI cable
Post by: kt. on July 19, 2009, 23:22:36
Thanks all.  Ordered this one today:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0013SRCAO/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
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