On 1 July, 19:38, Lucky13 wrote:
On 01/07/2010 17:39, The dog from that film you saw wrote:





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On 01/07/2010 16:28, J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 15:55:33 +0100, Lucky13 pondered:

maybe it was the cheap HDMI cable

What difference would an expensive HDMI cable made?

I thought that maybe the bundled HDMI cable that came with the Bush
freesat box might be resulting in a poor picture?

would a cheap usb cable make your printer produce bad prints?
it's a data cable - either the data makes it through or it doesn't - and
if it doesn't you dont get a rubbish picture - you get a big splodge of
breakup

I didn't realise it was a data cable, I thought it was like an RF cable
but fancy. I've learnt something there, thank you. Maybe cheap was the
"wrong" word to use - I sto makhould have said "Bush Quality HDMI lead".

Does this mean all HDMI cables are equal?

Nope, it is possible to make an HDMI cable so poorly that it can't
handle the fast pulse transitions and minimal error correction of an
HDMI signal; but as pointed out any degradation is going to be obvious
not subtle.