What's the difference between cheap and expensive HDMI Cables?

[Heisenburger™]

Title says the question. The HDMI cables are ranged between $5 to +$100.. Can anyone tells me the difference? I'm willing to buy GTX 770 2GB, which kind of HDMI cable should I get for gaming?

[_I_]

^ complete bs, unless your pc is 20 years old

pc /w bd drive not as good as a dvd player?

and audio not as good as cd?
cd is encoded at 44.1khz, 16bit stereo
most newer sound cards can do 44+khz 24-32bit 7.1+

mp3 quailty depends on the compression, 128k/s mp3 will sound like crap next to one encoded at 320k/s on the same system

back in the analog days, cable quality made a huge difference
hdmi is digital, a 30+gage cable will work just as good as a 16-gage cable

[helo, it's me MeliN ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com]

Almost the same ♥♥♥♥, but i guess its better quality with a more expensive one :)

[damain56]

All mp3s sound like crap,some worse than others.Depending on your system the difference will be obvious or not.A dedicated bluray player should sound better than almost any computer.As for the HDMI cable, just make sure it is 1.4 version and the cable has good integrity and connectors.I have a $40 cable and several sub $10 cables and I cant hear or see the difference on my high end setup.Other kinds of cable may make a difference but digital cables are mostle smoke and mirrors.

[Carlsberg]

Początkowo opublikowane przez |S|nIpEr:

Title says the question. The HDMI cables are ranged between $5 to +$100.. Can anyone tells me the difference? I'm willing to buy GTX 770 2GB, which kind of HDMI cable should I get for gaming?

Absolutely no difference other than price, just pick one and buy it. Some of the better ones are gold tipped?!! give me a break!

[Zefram Cochrane]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Carlsberg:

Początkowo opublikowane przez |S|nIpEr:

Title says the question. The HDMI cables are ranged between $5 to +$100.. Can anyone tells me the difference? I'm willing to buy GTX 770 2GB, which kind of HDMI cable should I get for gaming?

Absolutely no difference other than price, just pick one and buy it. Some of the better ones are gold tipped?!! give me a break!

The cheap ones are gold plated connectors too, in fact I don't think I've come across any HDMI cable that wasn't

[_I_]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882422130
non gold plated cheap hdmi cable
btw, works just fine

[Blaagh]

Początkowo opublikowane przez teunisswart:

Now if it was a High End Stereo or surround system I say yes. For a computer not so much. Say if you downloaded MP3 music or video's then the quality will not be as good as a CD, SACD or DVD, BluRay. So all that MP3 music etc. is not the best quality to start with. The only reason you could use more higher quality HDMI or any computer connecting cable's if you have a high end system with a motherboard with verygood quality audio on board and a verygood soundcard. Example Gigabite G1 Sniper 5 Motherboard.

The soundcard or onboard-soundchip won't do any difference as the HDMI-connection uses the soundchip on your graphics card. well unless you use a separate connection of ´course.

[Dungeonlord]

Początkowo opublikowane przez JLH:

I bought 2 Rosewill HDMI cables 2 years ago for $2.99 ea and free shipping for my 60inch TV and Blu-Ray player and the cables have worked perfect and picture quality is just as good as my friends TV with his $60.00 HDMI cable

i bought some rosewill dvi cables a few years ago (for about the same price) and they are by far the highest quality cables i own. they have ferrite chokes at both ends, gold plated connectors, and very heavy duty plastic coating (is very stiff) and if i ever need more cables i know where i'm going.

[CusK]

HDMI is a digital signal, so if it works, that is the best you will get, if it does not then take the cable back and get it replaced. Basically dont spend much on one unless you want a pretty one that will be seen. Linus does a decent video on this, i think its linked up there somewhere ^^^^^^^^

[N00gen]

There is a difference, but not that great of a difference.
I've compared the HDMI that comes with an XBOX360 and the one I bought from RocketFish for $50.
The only difference I see is that the RocketFish one is slightly brighter.