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Headphoneus Supremus
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I have several very inexpensive HDMI cables ($6-$12) from Amazon and a Monoprice. The picture quality is noticeably more sharp and vivid with one of the cables vs the others. Yea, I know they're supposed to be all the same; when it comes to enjoying video content I use the one that looks best (it's so obvious, my children can easily see the difference). Frankly, one can discuss this for years, but to what end, if one chooses to disregard the first step in the Scientific Method and simply parrots what he was told?
It's no mystery that requires years of discussion. HDMI cables of various materials and build qualities have been measured and tested. Your anecdotal quip provides no credible evidence to suggest that an inexpensive HDMI cable cannot perform equally as well as any HDMI cable that costs significantly more. All of your cables could be defective, even the one you prefer. Maybe there is one bad cable in the bunch and you happen to prefer it over the others for some reason. Perhaps that one cable is good and all the others are bad. You have not provided any statistical information to even begin to support your experience. We don't even know if the $6 cables are 3' or 25' long. I have had some duds from both Amazon and Monoprice with various cables, but that is not the typical experience for me. I'd be interested to know what might be contributing to a more vivid and sharp picture. It's certainly not some, as of yet, undiscovered and unmeasurable property.