NFT: installing tv and ahd hdmi cable question

a new cable since they are very inexpensive. 28AWG will be good unless you are running it over 50ft which I doubt.
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you get what you pay for.

Monster is a good consumer brand, but your best buy should have a notch up (i.e. audio quest) The general consensus is that in the long run over time your signal will continually degrade in a lognormal over Poisson fashion so you should invest in the gold tipped high speed wires with extra insulation.

HDMI is a digital signal. Either it works or it doesn't

There is no performance to be gained for more expensive or newer cables.

you won't need to replace it even if you purchased a 4K TV.

What's this mean:

"degrade in a lognormal over Poisson fashion"

are a scam

Expensive HDMI cables .
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the gold plating won't make any noticeable difference.

In comment 11636641 asbasb said:

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you get what you pay for. Monster is a good consumer brand, but your best buy should have a notch up (i.e. audio quest) The general consensus is that in the long run over time your signal will continually degrade in a lognormal over Poisson fashion so you should invest in the gold tipped high speed wires with extra insulation.

This is some of the worst advice ever. You really bought the salesman's pitch at Best Buy, huh?

If your existing HDMI cables work, there is absolutely no reason to replace them. And there is no reason to spend bug bucks on Monster or Audio Quest cables. It's a digital signal - it either works or it doesn't. You get get cables that are cheap and work fine at Monoprice.com.

In comment 11636641 asbasb said:

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you get what you pay for. Monster is a good consumer brand, but your best buy should have a notch up (i.e. audio quest) The general consensus is that in the long run over time your signal will continually degrade in a lognormal over Poisson fashion so you should invest in the gold tipped high speed wires with extra insulation.

Why would you give somebody such bad advice? WHY?!?

In comment 11636651 Randy in CT said:

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What's this mean: "degrade in a lognormal over Poisson fashion"

You have to take the post in its entirety and not just that phrase. "Monster is a good consumer brand" can be translated into "I hope you have boots on because the bullshit is about to get deep."

If I recall correctly, asbasb is in the business and I believe the post is dripping with sarcasm?

Make NO DIFFERENCE in picture quality, anyone that thinks that is clueless, Now the reason you may want to spend on a better cable would be the time that cable would last, they do go, and you then get interference in the picture, I have seen it already with one cable I purchased. If you have a cable that is working fine, use it, unless you don't care one way or the other to spend the extra, but digital signal is either clean or it is not, there is NEVER subtle differences in quality. NEVER!

but pay closer attention to Poe's Law.

No, you should not buy expensive hdmi cables.

thanks for calling me out and it is dripping with sarcasm.

HDMI is a digital signal so it is either there or not. It either works or it doesn't. Buy the cheapest one you can for the length you need.

Now, you may start to experience some signal loss in a wire run of about 50-55 feet.

In comment 11636641 asbasb said:

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you get what you pay for. Monster is a good consumer brand, but your best buy should have a notch up (i.e. audio quest) The general consensus is that in the long run over time your signal will continually degrade in a lognormal over Poisson fashion so you should invest in the gold tipped high speed wires with extra insulation.

Any brick and mortar store, you'll end up paying too much off the shelf.

you can buy a high-speed cable with a chip in it that boosts the signal - Redmere. Monoprice has these as well and I use it in my basement bar/theater. Works great. Only drawback is that it's uni-directional, meaning that there's an actual "source" end and a "monitor" end.

Ive had 3 cheap cables from Monoprice fail miseably in less than 2 years because.... they're CHEAP! Cheaply made and cheaply constructed of cheap materials. It doesnt hurt to spend a few more $ on a better built cable. You get what you pay for most of the time .

I've never heard of such a thing.

In comment 11636712 winoguy said:

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Ive had 3 cheap cables from Monoprice fail miseably in less than 2 years because.... they're CHEAP! Cheaply made and cheaply constructed of cheap materials. It doesnt hurt to spend a few more $ on a better built cable. You get what you pay for most of the time .

I buy mine at Wal-Mart and have never had one fail.

Doing nothing out of the ordinary, but if you move them a few times or connect/ re- connect the termination at the plug seems to fail. To say they are not built to last would be an understatement. That is my experience anyway.

. . . you are going to be constantly connecting and disconnecting the them. I had a situation where I frequently moved a small TV from my bedroom to my kitchen using the same cheap cable and it developed a problem. I picked up a better quality one and it took the "punishment" just fine.

They're inexpensive and they work just as well as expensive cables.

usually between $1-$2 each. I don't get the cheapest bc that just seems like tempting fate a bit.

all set up with HDMI on the cheap, none of them have fallen apart or broken.

The only cable that has failed on me is a Monster-brand optical audio cable.

In comment 11636694 asbasb said:

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thanks for calling me out and it is dripping with sarcasm. HDMI is a digital signal so it is either there or not. It either works or it doesn't. Buy the cheapest one you can for the length you need. Now, you may start to experience some signal loss in a wire run of about 50-55 feet.

I'd skip the sarcasm in the future. There's an art to sarcasm, and you clearly don't have it.