| Welcome
to our new HDMI Cable Benchmark.
Unlike our other Benchmarks, this one will not be very complex.
It is basically designed to test whether the new HDMI cables
that are being sold everywhere will pass a 1080i digital video
signal along with a Dolby Digital 5.1 digital audio signal for
at least 39 feet (12 meters) of cable.
The reason we are doing this
is that we have found that not all HDMI cables will pass these
signals properly for long distances. Sure, they might work in
a 6 foot cable, but many of us need longer cables to take the
video signal across the room to the projector.
Our feeling on this, is that if the cable will pass digital
video and audio for at least 39 feet (12 meters is a common
maximum length that manufacturers can supply, which equals 39.37
feet), then it is built well, and will do a good job at all
lengths less than that which you might need to purchase.
Our test is simple. The cable must pass the digital video and
audio (source can either be a satellite box, using the HDMI
output, or a high definition DVD player) to a surround sound
processor and to a digital projector. The video must not have
any sparkles in the image (sparkles indicate dropped bits),
and the audio must be clear in all channels.
We request the cable from the manufacturer in either 12 meters
or 15 meters length, depending on what the maximum length they
supply. If the 15 meter cable does not pass, then we request
the 12 meter cable. Otherwise, if the 15 meter cable passes,
all the better.
Following are the cables that have passed the Benchmark. Because
this is a new Benchmark, and the tests may change while we get
it all standardized, we are not going to list the cables that
failed our tests. At some later date, cables that fail the tests
will be listed.
Comects 12 Meter HDMI Cable
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