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Originally Posted by zevia  They are comparing $262 Monster cable vs $100 midrange cable bv Rocket fish vs $12 "online" cable and according to the test by CBC guy with all the sophisticated equipments, the 12 bucks one performs exactly the same with the pricey cables. "It's perfect, it can't get any better than this." 
But did you guys hear that the CBS guy said: "The images we're sending in to the cable from DVD player output is coming out to the cable is exactly the same pixel to pixel, color to color, sharpness, black level, everthing exactly the same". It's around 7:00 mins in the video. So the guy didn't test with hidef video and audio? Or bandwidth test doesn't matter?
Btw, my HDMI cables are $5 from monoprice.  |
It doesn't matter if he's testing SD or HD images, he's testing the video signal for image degradation. It would have been better if he actually tested the cables for max throughput, if such a test exists. But they were only testing the sales clerk's assurance that one could see a difference, so other considerations were not tested.
Considering that current HD players don't exceed maybe 50Mb/sec data rates, I have a hard time imaging a time when we will need 10Gb/sec rates. But it would be interesting to see if the $15 cables could do that.