I Spent a THOUSAND Dollars on HDMI Cables.. for Science

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We told you we’d do it, and here it is! Testing a whackload of HDMI 2.1 and 2.0 cables to find out if you’ve been wasting your money on cables for no good reason.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:27 HDMI Basics
2:22 Shady back alley deals
3:06 HDMI Specs
4:58 Methods
5:58 Initial results
9:15 Class is in session
11:11 Other failures
12:12 Macro view

5 Comments

  1. A follow up: Belkin reached out to explain the results we saw with their cable: “Our coax design is that pins 2 5 8 11 and 17 are connected to a common ground shield to create a shield loop – so it would fail a continuity test – but it doesn’t mean that the cable fails. The reason Belkin chose this design is because it creates a shield loop to protect it from interference.”

  2. Could be more useful if you actually shared the link of the excel with us 👎

    Edit: you did, but in your forum. Please next time add it directly on the video description so people doesn’t have to google for it.

  3. i love videos where you can’t find which of the cables are actually good.. so it’s time for guessing again bcs this video didn’t help

  4. Audioquest cables definitely need a deeper dive. Would like to see if any difference is noticeable in the data acquired.

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