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Honeywell’s male-to-male cables are designed for HDTV 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p.
Sometimes high definition doesn’t always deliver the very best. Why don’t you try telling that to Honeywell.
They have come up with an HDMI digital cable with CURxE Light technology, which corrects corrupted HDCP and EDID data. Otherwise, that HD image and your precious multi-channel audio might not be all it’s cracked up to be—and costing you.
You can blame the manufacturers (and sometimes transmission distances) for the problems—mainly because that’s the easiest thing to do. While no one except your elderly neighbors may hear your cursing, this cable may answer that call.
The magic is made possible because there’s a chip in the connector. The chip’s line driver cures corrupted HDCP and EDID data that can cause serious A/V artifacts. There’s also little LEDs embedded into the connector that can cue your installer in on HDMI’s problems.
Leave it alone, and you might as well bust out the rabbit ears. Corrupt data can cause the picture to drop out, loss of audio signals, incorrect resolution, “snow” in the picture, and more.
Actually HDMI is very susceptible to interference due to cheap cables and distance. I’ve seen it all after wiring up my 1080p capable home theater. I had to use HDMI amps in a 50 foot run and that’s with quality cables. Those cheap $5 HDMI cables can barely do 10 feet @ 1080p.
Component video OTOH can go for quite the distance without any signal loss using standard RG6 quad shield cable. Ask any of the video distribution manufacturers why there isn’t an affordable HDMI solution yet.
Come on people. WAKEUP!!!!!!!! There is no need for this at all. A HDMI cable is digital. The info is a 1 or a 0, on or off, however you wanna look at it. Unless your talking about some CRAZY distance (ie a few hundred feet) is matters not if you use a $200.00 cable or a $5.00 cable. Save your money for something else. We are not talking about an ANALOGUE signal.
This is great. HDMI is a poorly designed concept, so now we’re putting “chips” in connectors to take care of the problem.
This will no doubt be a very cheap fix.
Tip of the cap to all involved in this HDMI debacle.
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Umm, 50 feet is a long distance. I don’t wonder that you have problems with that distance. Since my DVD player is <4 feet from my TV, as is true for most people, a 6’ cable is more than sufficient. And a $5 Molex cable is also more than sufficient ;)
Long distances and very high speed data don’t mix, and many vendors just don’t test data skew and jitter very well. A HDMI cable may work at 50’ with 480p signals, but not 1080i. But, cable manufacturers have gotten a lot better, so you don’t have to buy that $100 monster cable ‘cause the Best Buy kid told you too.
But, as for this cable is concerned, I have to laugh - “Blinking LEDs!!! That means it MUST be working!”