Cheap HDMI Cables vs. Expensive HDMI Cables

Take my advice on this one, expensive cables don't make better cables. For those who believe that a $70 HDMI cable is better than a $4 HDMI cable, sorry but this just isn't the case. Take it from a electrical engineering technician's personal experience.

I've made hundreds of cables (mostly Ethernet) at work. There is nothing special about these things. You have individual conductors, the same size in the $70 cable as in the $4 cable. The reason these conductors are the same size is because the connector on the end of the cable will only except a certain size conductor.

In a six foot HDMI cable there is not enough shielding or noise protection in the $70 cable to warrant such a price difference from the $4 six foot cable. I would even venture to say that there is a strong possibility that the manufacturer of the actual cable for the two companies could be the same. What makes the cable a decent cable is the crimping procedure. Which is most likely the same, and if not very similar, in both cable provider companies. The reason that this is the important factor in the cable is simply because of the single most important aspect in electricity. This aspect, connectivity, novel concept I know. But electricity flows amazingly well when it has a path.

The $4 cable is tested before shipped just as the $70 cable is. The life of the cable from there most likely depends on your useage. So do yourself a favor next time your in an electronics store and see the high falutin $70 HDMI cable. Look on Ebay for something more reasonable. I recently bypassed buying the cheapest HDMI cable in an electronics store. This cable was $30. I looked on ebay and found three of the same size HDMI cables for a total of $7.50 shipped. You don't always get what you pay for, especially without reasearch.