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RE: HDMI or component video cables for HD cable box to HD TV?

Posted by Brian A on April 30, 2008 at 16:22:21:
The cables should not cause any issues. The adding of ferrites has to do with interference problems, where the high speed edges of the digital signals may be causing problems. Digital data transmission is almost a go or no go situation. Either the transmission is 100% or 0%. There is error correction for errors but that occurrs on the order of once per million bits or so.

Now if the digital decoder is a real cheap one, it may not do a good job of converting the digital data back to video/sound and any noise in the digital signal will end up visible or audible even though it shouldn't be this way.

About the global warming stuff. I post mostly on "The Outside Asylum" a secret part of this website where fully grown men argue like a bunch of kids about politics and religion, with some science/evolution/Global Warming stuff thrown in.

We'll have to agree to disagree about human caused global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along.