Premium HDMI v1.3 Cable (2M/6ft.)
by Cable
List Price:
Our Price: $13.95
You Save: $16.04 (53%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Category: CE
See more product details
Customers in the UK,
buy this product at amazon.co.uk
for British Pounds
Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: CableModel: HDMI-2M
Color: Black
Product features:
- HDMI 1.3a Compliant (Blu-ray disc compatible)
- Supports 1080P Resolution and Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, and DTS-HD audio formats
- 24k Gold Type A Connectors
- Superior-grade, highest-purity, solid-copper conductors
- HDMI Male to Male Connection
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Premium HDMI v1.3 Cable (2M/6ft.)
Customer Review: The review is based on the quality, you need to judge the value!
Summary: 5 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
First of all I'm an electrical and a software engineer so I'm generally not fooled by marketing information when it comes to electronics. In case you didn't know HDMI stands for High Def Multimedia Interface, and it is standardized. That is it's agreed upon by producers of the electronics they use this format to output uncompressed digital audio, as well as compressed formats, and HD video. If you use component video, a near equal standard in quality, you need 5 cables, three for video, and two for sound, and the sound is analog based. There are additional inputs that can be used for digital sound to go with component video, but they are not in the same cable like the all-in-one HDMI cables.
What's so good about this cable, and why the high rating? Well that rating would dive quickly if I thought the price were too high, I'm reviewing this Vine product without knowing the price. What I can say is the cable is very well made, reinforced on the plug ends so as not to become damaged, and has gold contacts that do not degrade. The standard is 1.3a, and essentially that is the latest, it supports newer sound formats, and something called deep color.
Why should you buy it? Well if you have the latest audio and video equipment, you may want something that supports the highest standards. You'll still want to gauge the price. I bought some HDMI cables on Amazon that were very cheap, only a few dollars each. They performed just fine for my HDTV connected to an up converting DVD player. I swapped the cable with this one, and put on an anime episode that I knew to be a bit grainy when blown up to 1080i. I changed the sound formats to the specialty ones the TV supported as well. I detected no differences at all, my previous cable was a 1.2 standard but it worked just fine. I really don't have any current components that can test the new uncompressed audio, and maybe in the future these will become popular. Then again, maybe they are only for audiophiles.
The danger is buying cables that process digital information is to overpay. Companies out there will immediately adopt the latest standards, so the price will get competitive soon. Remember this is the digital world of signals. You don't need an auto jumper cable-sized copper to transmit digital data. That's why these HDMI's can be made so small. Here is a quick tutorial on the differences between digital and analog. I have lamp cord sized copper going from my stereo to my speaker. The reason is the full amplified power up to 100 watts or more must be output to move the magnet coils in a speaker system. If the transmission were digital what would be done is the data bits would be transmitted on thin digital rated cables, just like from your USB drive to your MP3 players or computer system. Then there would be a decoder in the speaker which would decode the data, convert to an analog signal, amplify it in the speaker and drive the speaker coils to hear it. Unamplified signals do not need as much copper to transmit along wires. That means you don't need very big wires, or special quality to handle the digital signals, just enough to handle the rated volume of digital data.
Unless the cables are carelessly made they work, even the cheap ones do this if they are compliant to the latest standards. If your equipment is older you don't even need full 1.3 compliance. Electronics stores sometimes make a living selling expensive cables to make up for low margins on their component sales. This is a perfectly fine cable if the price is reasonable, if it ventures towards the half century price mark in dollars however, shop around!
Description of Premium HDMI v1.3 Cable (2M/6ft.)
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), the future of HDTV, enables delivery of both high-definition video and multichannel, digital audio through just one cable. It offers an ideal way to connect digital displays such as HDTVs, plasma displays, DLP TVs, LCD TVs, and projectors. HDMI also provides an all-digital connection between such source devices as HDTVs, DVD players/recorders, digital cable/satellite boxes, and AV receivers.Digital Cameras and Photo Categories