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Originally Posted by Toadrax
It isn't really true to say that digital is digital... the "signal" isn't ON or OFF anymore. HDMI doesn't even use the manchester encoding we were shown back in high school.
HDMI cables will be labeled somewhere as category 1 or category 2 certified and those certification guarantee their ability to meet certain requirements. Those requirements become harder to meet as the cable becomes longer.
A cable that meets the requirements meets the requirements and that is as good as it gets, but a cable that is damaged or that did not meet the requirements(made in China lol) can still give you a degraded image, skipped frames, or not work at all.
That being said, Monster cables and gold plating is still a ripoff.. you should still stay away from cables that are from a cheap and questionable brand. You are also less likely to get screwed on a shorter cable.
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Hmmmm...Weird...I've gotten a bad one before...And there was ZERO degradation in signal quality before it would just shut off. The picture worked or it didn't. I played with it for weeks to test it out and couldn't tell the difference between it and the good cable (when the bad one worked).