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I got one for about 4 squids and it makes a fantastic difference. I would never pay £60 for one, tbh I's struggling to understand how much better a picture can get than my 32" Samsung with MW2 playing.
 

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Spammy is correct. Don't pay over the odds. Electronics retailers make their money on these items. Get yours for cheap, it does the same job just as well.
 

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90p seems too cheap though, I'm suspicious of such low prices.

Still, not an expensive mistake to make I guess.
 

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How can they get away with selling it for £60 just cos it's gold plated anyway?
 

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You can't just dump all of these cables into a single box and expect them all to be the same, all sorts of issues can crop up depending on the length of the cable. However, that said, any old one should do to hook the PS3 up to the TV as long as it complies with HDMI 1.3a spec.
 

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I got one off amazon for 1p + postage from a seller and it worked fine. Never plugged one of these really expensive ones in to see the difference but the cheap one was ok for me.
 

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buy the regular cheap one...don't fall for all the bollocks that they spout.
 

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The only varying issues ive had with HDMI cables is only down to length.

The very cheap ones do the job very well.

Don't go for the crap sales pitch that 'Gold Plated makes all the difference'.
 

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Alright. So. I've got this sports subscription via the net so I watch a lot of TV with my laptop hooked up to my home theater system.

I was hooking it up earlier and nothing happened. Nothing came on the TV screen. Now that has happened before and usually just works to go back and forth on the system but I noticed that the laptop hadn't responded to it was well. My gf then said to be that her niece, who's 3 years old and was being babysat here earlier today, was testing how the end of the cable tasted.

So. It worked perfectly fine 24hrs ago. The cable is about 3 months old. Little girl puts it in her mouth. Doesn't work anymore.

I tried to restart the laptop first. Didn't work. Then uses the HDMI cable from the PS3 and voila! No problem. So my thought is that this expensive bit of wires is now ruined because of a little bit of drooling. Am I right? Is this fixable?
 

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My cable cost €5 and I don't see how my video quality could improve. Even with a €60 cable, I don't understand it.
 

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£5 HDMI cable is the same quality as an expensive one. Just a heads up.
 

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It either works or it doesn't. There is not difference in picture quality between HDMI cables.
 

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You made the laptop output through HDMI right?
 

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I bought a few hdmi cables from poundland, they work as well as the more expensive one I have, and the one that came with Sky. Exactly the same. I see Currys have one for £40 at the minute, anyone buying that is mental. As has been said, it either works or it doesn't. The only thing different in expensive ones is the outer layer/insulation, and maybe the outer coating can keep them from breaking depending how they bend. For simple sky/ps3/xbox/blu-ray to tv etc a cheap one is more than adequate.

Think the ones I got from poundland were pretty cheap.
 

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Yea. I read what Abou posted. Seems to be they did all the testing there and it's like I thought, it either works or it doesn't. You can't get them on cheap in Iceland because there are ridiculous tolls on everything. They even just added an extra 6% toll on everything that is bought online outside Iceland so online shopping is pretty much dead because of stupid politicians.

Thankfully I don't live there at the moment and can order from amazon.co.uk. Found a nice 10m cable there for a fiver. That's at least 5 times cheaper than a 1m cable back in Iceland. Mental this cable business.
 

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I have one that stupidly cost me €60 and one that cost me €8 and there's sweet feck all difference. Have tested both on my TV and PS3 and can't notice a thing.
 

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Only slight difference (according to my poxy lecturer last year) is to do with sound. If you are running a top of the range surround-sound system, the the sound quality can suffer with the cheaper long length cables....apparently. But in fairness most of us would be using no longer than a 2m cable, difference is non existence in these circumstances.

the baby eating the cable, any signs of bite marks at the end of the cable or anything liek that??
 

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God, not this again!

Just because a digital signal is sent down the cable does not mean that interference can not occur (as there is no error correction and the signal is not compressed). The longer the cable, the better the shielding needs to be.
 

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Weaste what the hell are those magnet things that they sell TV cables with these days?

They are a Torus shape (I think) of an apparently magnetic metal which went around the cable.
 

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Buying cables is a big con if you go to the shops like Comet and Currys. In the spare room I use as a computer/gaming room its cables galore and if I'd have bought them all from shops or some pricey websites selling these so called high quality cables I'd have probably had to take out a small loan. :lol:

Bought several HDMI cables of ebay for like £1.49 to the door, cheap 10m-20m ethernet cables for not too much more and even 3.5mm extension cables etc. All of them I found versions of in Comet or even Tesco where they want say £20m just for an ethernet cable. Not had any issues in terms of quality or failure with the HDMI cables, all worked fine. 1 did get a bit lose from one ebay seller, near the rubber plug end that surrounds the gold connector but that was probably a combination of dodgy seller/batch and me pulling it out of one piece of equipment and putting into another a bit too much. Now I have another screen I don't do that.

Get the cheap ones. :D Save your £20-£40 for more gear, like a better TV in the first place.
 

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WeasteDevil said:
You mean like those big cylindrical blobs you get on VGA cables and even the PS3s component cables?
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Possibly, possibly not. The ones we keep getting given are to go behind the TV around some cable or another to reduce interference.
 

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Wow cheers. I have to admit I had no idea they where even used. Cool
 
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