Difference in HDMI cables: A Free Live Webinar
CePro is putting on a free live webinar to talk about the in’s and out’s of HDMI cables. The webinar will cover topics around 3D, True Color, and things about “will my cheap cable be good enough?”
For dealers, questions about HDMI still abound:
– Will HDMI cable handle new technology and specifications, like Audio Return Channel (ARC) and HDMI Ethernet Channel (HEC)? like 3D, even higher resolutions and deeper colors?
– What is the data capacity of cable and how does it affects resolution, color depth and refresh rate?
– How do you know your HDMI cable will perform at longer distances?
– How are cables tested for reliability? For performance above and beyond current sources and displays?
I for one an very interested in this topic of conversation. If you have time I’d highly recommend joining the webinar.
Via CePro
I’m curious about it; I doubt
I’m curious about it; I doubt I’ll be able to watch it because of its time, but I hope you can write up a little something about it.
This post got me thinking about my setup and ARC. I tried setting up ARC over the weekend, but ended up just using optical audio from the TV to the receiver. The HDMI cable handles 3D video fine, so I had assumed that I was putting some setting wrong. Now I wonder if I need a more recent cable that can handle ARC (seems obvious now, but the time didn’t cross my mind). Oh well, I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend.
ARC will probably depend on
ARC will probably depend on some settings within both the display and AVR. I recently set up a new Denon with my Samsung display. Denon requires that “HDMI Control” be enabled and Samsung requires “Anynet+” to be enabled. Did you have the CEC features of your display and AVR enabled?
I should also note that ARC is often limited to one HDMI port. For Samsung C8000, it is “HDMI 2”.
swoon wrote:
Denon requires
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Denon requires that “HDMI Control” be enabled and Samsung requires “Anynet+” to be enabled. Did you have the CEC features of your display and AVR enabled?
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Apparently I never turned on the “Simplink” on the TV. It’s working now. I’ll be off in the corner pretending that I didn’t forget a simple step… (Thanks for the help =) )
If anyone is interested in
If anyone is interested in this topic, I can highly recommend reading http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/hdmi-cables.htm?hdmiinfo and http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/whats-the-matter-with-hdmi.htm?hdmiinfo.
They discuss various challenges, shortcomings and quality differences in HDMI cables in a very easy-to-follow manner.
Not sure if your comment is
Not sure if your comment is directed towards my links or not but I did want to clarify. I buy my cables from Monoprice. I believe they offer very high quality cables for a great price. The issue with many low cost cables is that they are not built to HDMI specifications. It wasn’t until very recently , a few months, that HDMI cable imports were inspected to ensure they werre HDMI licensed and certified. Prior to that (years) you had cheap cables coming out of China that were not built to specifications. They worked in most cases but typically not for very long and could lead to “weird” issues.
mikinho wrote:They worked in
[quote=mikinho]They worked in most cases but typically not for very long and could lead to “weird” issues.[/quote]
I can attest to that simply from my own experience. I purchased 3 cables for $1 once and the cables worked great until they had to put out 1080p/60 (which is a huge jump in bandwidth). I got sparkles galore or no sync at all.