Why You Should Never Pay More Than $10 For HDMI Cables – Cables – Lifehacker
You’ve probably guessed that gold-plated cables for your home theater are entirely unnecessary. Still, there must be some small quality difference for all that price, right? Mint.com’s blog lays out the answer: No, not at all.
The HDMI Licensing Group LLC has issued a new revision, of HDMI, called HDMI 1.4, which has, among other things, support for dual video feed+3D spatial information, to enable 3D displays to operate by more than one protocol. The display and advertising standards have also been changed, since the cable standard dictates more than just the physical specification.
The biggest surprise was that HDMI version numbers will not allowed in the labeling, packaging, or promotion of any HDMI v1.4 cable. — DH
I personally think this is a good move. Monster Cable isnt going to like it much, as well as pear cables, and all their ilk, (Meaning companies that use “bit direction indicators, etc. to add false value.) as the new guidelines seem to be quite specific in saying that cables must advertise all the features supported by a particular class of cable, if a specific class of cable is needed. i.e. The mfgr cannot imply “their” cable has features proprietary to it without mentioning all the features of the cable. I think monoprice cable as well as other bulk retailers will actually find this a relief, as it will simplify advertising, and the number of different cable types currently available (measured in gb/sec, or GB/sec, or A,B,C, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3a, etc.).
Digital Home has an article, as well as further links.
