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10 years agoWalnutCreek Zone 7b/8a thanked Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)Related Discussions
HDMI Monster Cable necessary?
Comments (4)I have only one Monster Cable product, which I bought cheap at Goodwill. It's the cable from my DVD player to my receiver. I can't honestly say it sounds any different from the vendor-supplied cable that came with the DVD player. It simply was long enough to reach what it had to; the original one was not. There is an entire "cult" based around the qualities of various cables and their materials and construction, and the sky is the limit on what some people are willing to pay for them. While there may be discernible differences between cables, IMHO they are just that -- differences -- not necessarily improvements. I would venture that most folks out there would not experience any kind of improvement in using fancier cables -- certainly not while the cable company signal and room configuration has such a great effect on what you actually see and hear....See Morehdmi maximum cabling lengths? how to set up tv?
Comments (0)Is there a maximum distance for HDMI cabling from, say, a DVD player or receiver to a TV? In my circumstance, my wife and I want to mount a plasma TV on a wall. We plan to hook it up to a receiver and DVD player that will be on the opposite side of the room (17' wide room). Would the most likely hookup be overhead through the ceiling and fish a cable down to the receiver and then to the TV? Or is there some way to remote connect them? We plan to use Comcast cable for standard TV channels. Thanks for your help and input!...See MoreReplace the head on an HDMI cable?
Comments (20)Logitech is still the only game in town on the DIY side and truthfully many people have had issues with it. We personally stopped supporting them about 5 years ago as their performance was negatively reflecting our reputation. Now we only do Uni remotes by URC, RTI and the low end Control4 stuff. That cat cable could have several uses (1) Extending an IR emitter wire that is not long enough out of the box (2) Wired network for TV (3) Terminated with DB9 connectors on either end for RS232 communication (4) Terminated with RJ45 connectors and paired with an HDMI balun which essentially modulates an HDMI audio and video signal on to and out of the Cat 5e/ Cat 6 wire. (5) If you have an older TV, terminated with RJ45 connectors and used with an analog 2-channel audio feed from the TV. (6) Low voltage power for a device that you might want to plug behind the TV but has a giant wall-wart power supply that won't fit behind the TV I am sure there are others but those are the most common....See MoreHDMI cable performance?
Comments (9)Here's the technically uninformed opinion of a lifelong owner of AV equipment who's set up a lot of stuff in a lot of places (me!). Based on experience, not education - HDMI cables carry digital signals. Digital anything is binary - either it's there or it's not. A digital video signal that's incomplete will shudder, have pixellations, will stop to cache, or stop altogether. A disturbed digital audio signal will have sonic equivalents - will shudder, have gaps, or stop. I grew up in an analog world, as most other people aged 40+ did. An analog signal path can add or subtract what's being transmitted. Not so digital. But even a digital "system" may have analog parts- wires running to speakers from an amplifier are an example. For speaker wires, use large gauge (smaller number) wire. Typical problems of HDMI cables are breaks at the connectors. So if it's working, it's fine. I buy cheap ones too, they work as well as ones costing 10 times as much. Either the complete signal is transmitted or it's not, when it's not, there's no ambiguity. Then the task is to find out why....See More
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