 It's a digital signal, people. |
| Review Date: May 12, 2006 |
| Reviewer: B. Vrooman, Columbus, OH |
As an audio engineer, I understand the importance of good cables. I saw HDMI cables for over a hundred dollars, and I began to wonder why I should truly spend that much.
With other A/V equipment that I've hooked up, the signals have been (mostly) analog. Analog signals are prone to outside interference in a much more obvious way than digital, mainly because most digital signals (including DVI and HDMI) include some sort of error correction and/or signal reconstitution technology.
I spent MUCH less on this particular cable, and I have to say that I'm completely satisfied. The cable is short enough and shielded thickly enough that even my inexpensive TV is able to produce a clean, artifact-free image 100% of the time. |
Dont be fooled by Retail Salesmen.
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| Review Date: March 10, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Daniel G. Carr, Houston, TX |
| I wish there was some way for me to tell everyone about buying cables online. When I shopped around for cables to hook up my home theatre I was disgusted by the price retail stores such as Tweeter and Fry's were charging for this and other high end A/V cables. Some places had this conversion cable listed for $100. Its should be considered consumer fraud. But this cable works great and My Star Wars Movies never looked better! |
Excellent product
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| Review Date: June 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Brian L, Arizona |
I record HDTV off the air onto my computer and had been viewing the recorded video using the standard S-Video output on my graphics card. I bought this cable to connect the graphics card's high definition DVI output to the HDMI input on my plasma TV to get better video quality. It dramatically improved the video quality of the video on my screen to HD quality.
I was somewhat skeptical that this would be so, given the fact that this item cost only $12 and I had seen them priced at $40 and up at electronics stores.
I am extremely pleased with this product. |
Exactly what I wanted!
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| Review Date: November 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: S. Paul, Culver City, CA |
| I got these cables plus a mini DVI to DVI converted and everything worked splendidly. I recommend getting the mini DVI to DVI through Amazon as well. Link here: Apple Mini-dvi To Video Adapter. I wanted to watch video from my MacBook(2008) on my Samsung 32inch flatscreen and it worked perfectly. It was quite inexpensive for this setup and the video quality is excellent. |
It's a cable, gosh darnit!
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| Review Date: March 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jeremy Thornhill, |
I first went looking for an HDMI -> DVI cable at a national big box retail store, only to discover that the cheapest one they had was $70! I had expected to get ripped off, but I'd expected something "reasonable" like a 500% or 600% markup - not 4000%! I was so shocked by the blatant robbery that I couldn't restrain myself - I laughed out loud and giggled my way out the door empty handed.
One quick hop over to amazon.com, and this little baby was headed my way. $11 still strikes me as a bit high, but hey, I know amazon's gotta make a buck too. This cable really does what it's supposed to - please, PLEASE don't be fooled by retail employees who push solid gold Huckster Cables at 10 times the cost.
As for some details:
I got this thing to display output from my XBox 360 on my computer monitor. If you're thinking of doing the same, please note that the XBox 360's proprietary "composite + component" cable is required for audio out when you're using an HDMI -> DVI cable. Using that cable, you can get either audio either from the optical or RCA plugs.
There's one little snag, though - on my XBox 360, at least, the "composite + component" cable physically obstructs the HDMI port. There's just no way to plug both cables in at once.
After googling around a bit, I learned that you could actually remove the plastic casing from the XBox cable and give yourself enough room. I did this, and everything works great. |
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