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Originally Posted by GAngel
It's a digital signal.....
As long as you get a signal, the picture quality of a $4 cable is the same as the $60 cable. You have to loose a lot of the signal strength before you get digital static, which shows up as small squares with old/random looking picture.
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You wont get squares in this case, as it's not a compressed signal, that happens with DVD/DTT because it's MPEG etc. Interference in that data will give you those types of problems when trying to decode it. Here we are talking about something akin to a raw bitstream. If we are talking about a raw bitstream, there is no error data sent to correct signal problems, so your argument is wrong. As an XBox lover, your HDMI cable (if you are actually using one) really will not matter, but with a PS3, because all signals are HDCP protected over HDMI, any type of interference can cause you to not get an image AT ALL!
Cheap cables, although looking like a HDMI cable may not actually conform to standards set by the HDMI Founders (which does not include Microsoft).