{"id":408,"date":"2008-12-01T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:03:11","slug":"hdmi-1-3-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"HDMI 1.3 cables"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Sony BDP-S350 Review Thread<\/a> at the Blu-ray forum someone asked<\/a>, ‘I am totally confused whether I should be using a HDMI 1.3 cable.’<\/p>\n

Someone else responded<\/a>, ‘If you want to bitstream DTS-HD MA and DD TrueHD you must use HDMI 1.3.’<\/p>\n

But this isn’t quite correct. The HDMI version numbers refer to the kinds of capabilities that can potentially be supported. They don’t refer to cables as such because in a basic wiring sense, all HDMI cables are the same.<\/p>\n

That does not mean that all HDMI cables work the same. You may not get a reliable connection for higher bandwidth signals over longer cable runs if you use a cheap, thin cable. A cable that works at 1080i may not work at 1080p.<\/p>\n

As it happens DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD do not make additional demands on cables. These are compressed audio formats that typically reduce by about 50% the amount of data required to carry the sound. But even way back in the beginnings of HDMI — Version 1.0 — it was specificied to carry up to eight channels of 192kHz, 24 bit uncompressed LPCM.<\/p>\n

HDMI 1.3 did double the bandwidth requirements to 10.2Gbps, but that extra bandwidth provides for the future, not for current demands.<\/p>\n

I have been using Kordz HDMI cables<\/a> for several years (since before HDMI 1.3 came into use), and they continue to work perfectly for me, despite being plugged in and out of equipment all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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