When I had bought a new home theater I had no idea about the ridiculous prices for a HDMI cable and I thought since it was new generation connection cable, having such a port in my TV, computer and DVD player would be better.
I was also impressed by the fact that the single cable can send both video and audio signals and that too in high quality. This way I can minimize the cable cluster that I usually get around the electronic devices in my house.
But when I was in the market to buy a HDMI cable for my home theater, I was shocked to see the prices at which these retail at. I saw some ones retailing for about $100 (Rs.4800) which was 1/10th of the cost of my 40" LCD itself and 2 times more than my DVD player itself.
Then with much searching around for a while, I found that there were quite some cheap ones too for sale at prices at about $5. At first sight, I thought that they would be some cheap quality ones and would degrade the signal quality that it sent through.
But after much research, I found that HDMI cables use only digital signals and so there is not point of signal degradation. It is either that a 1 or 0 passes through or not. It can't degrade in quality like the analog based ones.
So I decided to try out the cheap ones for a fraction of the cost of the more expensive ones and boy was I surprised. I got a clear signal for both my video and audio. I was feeling good that I did not fall for those gold plated oxygen free ratings and shell out a fortune for those cables.
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