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Several years ago I researched speakers and A/V receivers til my wife was ready to strangle me. I've been very happy with my M-80's and Denon receiver. I just purchased a large LCD TV and was planning on getting a new DVD player. Are HDMI cables everything they are cracked up to be? I've read some people have concerns if the length of the cable used is long. Should I stick with conventional cables? Does your company plan on making your own HDMI cables? I know you started making your own speaker cables right after I had set up my new system.

I have bought numerous HDMI cables from Mononprice.com. Never had a problem ... Some different devices by diffeernt manufacturers sometimes have handoff issues with the hdcp. If your equipment is capeable of acepting and sending of HDMI signals.. (both sound and video)your good to go.. But some hdmi devices only send/recieve the video and not the audio signal.. Check your manuals to see if this is the case with any of your equipment.. How long of a cable run do you want do??

AvDude

I 2nd the recommendation of monoprice.

This is also interesting reading. I agree w/ it for the most part. Heck HDMI is digital and most of us aren't watching eye patterns on our displays...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/feature/the-t...ally-268788.php

ditto on monoprice, purchased both 25ft DVI/HDMI and Component for my Sanyo projector.

Cobalt Cables sent me an Email saying that they had HDMI cables on sale so you might want to check them out. I used them for speaker cables and I am impressed with quality of the cables.

again,

I used monoprice as well.

They are just too cheap.

I was skeptical about MonoPrice cables, and then decided to give them a try. I’m no cable guru, but the ones I bought look very well made. They look/feel every bit as good, if not better than anything I’ve bought from Radio Shack (including their Monster and Gold Series stuff). I bought a bunch of their deluxe coax and 22 ga HDMI 3’ cables to re-do my rack.

I would suggest that when buying HDMI cables that you will not want to pull out and replace later, get the best available that will carry the highest bandwidth. When HDMI 1.3 audio / video data starts traveling in your set up, the last thing you will want to do is pull in new cables. I do not think 28 gauge will carry the new bandwidths. 22 gauge should, but I’m not certain. I haven’t found any good articles telling us what to expect that don’t wander into the typical anti HDMI rhetoric that quickly looses my attention.

That begs the question, when I upgrade my receiver this fall to one with HDMI 1.3, and then buy a Blu-ray player also with HDMI 1.3, will I need to upgrade my current HDMI cables to get the full signal?

I've been buying all my A/V cables from www.bluejeanscable.com.

According to this, apparently not since cable attenuation is compensated...but then there's the cryptic note at the end so I'm not sure.

Audioholics: Did any cabling or tolerance parameters change for the specification?

HDMI 1.3 increased the single-link bandwidth from 165MHz (or 4.95 gigabits/second) to 340MHz (or 10.2 gigabits/second). This was accomplished through the addition of receiver cable equalization, which is technology present in the HDMI receiver chip (in the display) that compensates for the signal deterioration caused by cables. In addition, source pre-emphasis (which emphasizes bit transitions) and source termination (which minimizes noise generation by the connectors) are now permitted for higher speed devices.

Editor's Note: If you thought the HDMI cable market was expensive, and frankly unreliable in passing 1080p without Deep Color over distances longer than 30 feet, we can't wait to see the mess that arises out of this new format. Thought that cable you sealed up in your home theater wall or ceiling was sufficient? Guess again. Cable EQ boxes will help, but the industry is somewhat reeling in shock at present over a new format with some features that, frankly, no one really asked for.

Boy, this will be fun. I can smell the snake oil now as companies start offering HDMI 1.3 rated cables, or claim that their cables can already pass the signal. Will it be the $150.00 3 foot Monster Cable, or the $25.00 Beldon one? Ones says it's HDMI 1.3 rated, the other says it'll pass 1080p, plus DD True Awesome HD Sound with pink frilly edges, deep colour and diet Pepsi. Which will I choose?

Can they try a little harder to confuse the consumer?