{"id":3202,"date":"2011-06-06T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2011-06-06T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T01:43:47","slug":"a-bigger-longer-hammer-from-the-cable-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"A bigger (longer?) hammer from The Cable Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I purchased some HDMI cables from The Cable Connection<\/a>, following up on my previous post<\/a> about Kogan’s inexpensive HDMI cables.<\/p>\n

In a comment to that post alebonau recommended<\/a> TCC.<\/p>\n

\"HDMI<\/a>Now I had little doubt that the Kogan cables would work all right. Three metres isn’t a very long run, but it was nonetheless gratifying to see them work fine, especially as they only cost $8 each.<\/p>\n

But my experience revealed<\/a> that cheap cables could run into noticable problems with 1080p60 video at five metre lengths, even though they worked fine with 1080i60. At the end of that 2006 post I said ‘For the moment I\u2019ll be sticking with Kordz cables.’<\/p>\n

So I was predisposed to accept that you had to be very careful with long HDMI cable runs. Especially, for example, the ten metre runs I use in my office to a projector. I still figured the hundreds of dollars charged by most brand names for a ten metre ‘High Speed with Ethernet’ HDMI cable was way too high, but what could you do?<\/p>\n

Well, check out those available from The Cable Connection. So I bought one. TCC branded and advertised as ‘High Speed with Ethernet’, ten metres, ribbon style, with a nice woven insulation, it arrived on Friday. I ran it over the weekend from home theatre receiver to HD TV. No problems with any signal, including 3D. This morning I put it between the Blu-ray player and the receiver. It set the Blu-ray player to 1080p60 output, and internal decoding of the audio to PCM, and played back a Blu-ray test track with 96kHz, 24 bit 7.1 channel audio.<\/p>\n

Performance: perfect.<\/p>\n

Cost of the cable? $49.95.<\/p>\n

Looks like high quality HDMI cables don’t need to cost anything like what’s presently being charged by many.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you’re after HDMI (or other) cables. Check out TCC’s selection<\/a>. I also purchased a couple of 1.5 metre ones, which sell for a very reasonable $14.95 each, or about a third of the price you’d pay for a 1.5 metre cable at a department store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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