HDMI Cable Debate: Does price really dictate quality?

[Voodoo_Person]

My HDMI cable cost me £2 off of ebay, and it hasnt failed me yet

 

[Atomic Skull]

At a distance of 15 meters, Monster showed a marginally better picture quality over the No Name brand. And when I say marginally, I mean that if they hadn't been sitting right next to each other, I would never ever have noticed.

The only "quality difference" you are going to see is bit dropouts in the image called "sparklies". HDMI is a digital signal, the pixel data either gets through or it does not, there is no "in beween" like there is with an analog signal.

With HDMI/DVI (they use the same video signal) and DisplayPort you either get a 100% perfect image or you get an unacceptable image with dropped pixels. There is no "in between" quality at all. It's either good or bad, period.

DisplayPort is much better than the DVI (and HDMI) signal because it's a packet based signal and can work over much longer cables without dropping pixels. The DVI/HDMI signal was designed to be able to drive a CRT display and is basically just a digital VGA signal while DisplayPort was designed for digital panels.

 

[Fenring]

The only difference is between HDMI output/inputs and length of certain other cables. HDMI is digital, so it either works or doesn't, there is no "kind of works."

 

[Worgen]

if you want a better reason to avoid monster products, look up some of the lawsuits they had a few years ago, they started suing anyone with the word monster in their name because they said it hurt their brand

 

[Atomic Skull]

The only difference is between HDMI output/inputs and length of certain other cables. HDMI is digital, so it either works or doesn't, there is no "kind of works."

You can get pixel dropouts but that is very obvious and results in an unacceptable image and so can be considered "not working"

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Short answer No. Long answer yes it can do to an extent