IXOs Rolls Out Luxury HDMI Cables March 29, 2007
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Cabling is not the most exciting product segment. That said, anyone who has witnessed the audio/visual difference between content viewed or heard through cheap cables versus pricier cables will tell you, it's damned important.
Now that HD content is in the online wild and on some shelves you might want to look into some decent HDMI cables. You may have noticed that they are not cheap, and sorry to disappoint, but the latest Xen range from IXOs is not going to change that.
Of course, you will find cheaper cables out there, but these ones are geared towards those that believe you get what you pay for. The Xen XHT658 is the new flagship HDMI cable from the cabling specialist, offering full-HD 1080p. Even better they come in lengths ranging from 1m to 11m. The connectors are silver plated to maximise signal quality and minimise losses, there’s triple shielding against interference, a cast metal HDMI plug to do away with electromagnetic interference and they’ve been HDMI certified by Silicon Image testing labs.
Prices start at a gob-smacking £109 for the 1m cable and run upwards really fast through 2m, 3m, 5m and 7m until you get to £268 for the 11m option. How much do you love your movies?-Martin Lynch
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Comments
OMG! Why do people let the HDMI cable scam continue. It either works or doesn't and it wont make a difference if your cable costs £7 or £300. Ridiculous.
I was thinking just that, it's a digital cable so it's bites, bits and a load of zeros and ones. A better cable wont make for better data transfer (or will it ?).
Exactly, how come we all have run of the mill IDE and SATA cables in our PCs yet don't have to worry about bytes *ever* going missing when our PCs read data from the HDD? Same deal. Idiots buy this stuff.
You guys obviously can't tell quality when you see it!
Only Joking. It's telling that we never see a blinded test of high end audio or visual cables?
Actually, I believe there are good cables and bad cables. The bad ones will result in more time being spent corrrecting errors - and as they get worse, differences will become visible /audiable . However, although I can't prove it, I'm sure its about 99% hype.
not all hype. you see other digital cables (ide, sata, usb) use digital error correction so data transfer usually does not suffer from errore. hdmi on the other hand, has no such correction, so any bits that are lost through a poor quality cable will affect the image quality.