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#1 GymFox
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I have been using a sort of cheap HDMI chord for days now. Does having the expensive Sony (or other high quality) one make a noticeable difference?

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#2 aijou_
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I have been using a sort of cheap HDMI chord for days now. Does having the expensive Sony (or other high quality) one make a noticeable difference?

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Nope, Not at all since it's a digital signal. I guess it might make a little difference if you're using a really, really looooong cable. otherwise no.

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#3 Leon_Kennedy1
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Nah, they don't matter.. I have an expensive Sony HDMI cable and my brother has a cheap one, and there ain't no difference.
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Truely there is a difference because cables are rated on how much data they can transfer, for full 1080p and 7.1 audio it is required to have a cable that can pass at least 8GB's a second. People say it is digital and does not matter but really do you think just cause it is digital the difference between 1000 1/0s and 100,000 1/0's does not make a difference.
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#5 aijou_
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Truely there is a difference because cables are rated on how much data they can transfer, for full 1080p and 7.1 audio it is required to have a cable that can pass at least 8GB's a second. People say it is digital and does not matter but really do you think just cause it is digital the difference between 1000 1/0s and 100,000 1/0's does not make a difference.wooooode

Partially true. But as long as it is at least HDMI ver. 1.3 (wich became standard year 2006 And transfers over 10 Gb/s) It won't make any difference in quality when playing PS3 or watching Blu-Ray. Believe me, buying an expensive HDMI cable will just be a waste of money.

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#6 GymFox
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Thanks guys. Looks like I will just stick with my OG one

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Truely there is a difference because cables are rated on how much data they can transfer, for full 1080p and 7.1 audio it is required to have a cable that can pass at least 8GB's a second. People say it is digital and does not matter but really do you think just cause it is digital the difference between 1000 1/0s and 100,000 1/0's does not make a difference.wooooode
Fully, not partially... analogue and digital use the same "stuff" to transfer that data... its called electricity and there is only one kind of that stuff. Although it's not as susceptible to interference than analogue thats the main difference, it uses binary code rather than sort of morse code of electric pulses which 1 wrong pulse can have a change of image, plus digital has it's own form of error checking and correction so its more stable at longer cable lengths and further reduces interference distortion.