| If you are in the market to buy HDMI cables the choice | | | | entertainment equipment, such as HDTV, Bluray, 1080p |
| is mind blowing. One issue I have noticed is the use of | | | | and 1080i cable and satellite and the latest 3DTV. |
| the term HDMI component cable. I am at a loss as to | | | | Where the best of the previous generation of cables |
| what people using this term are actually looking for. | | | | used 3 cables, HDMI cables use a total of 19 all |
| Let me try to explain. The component cable was an | | | | wrapped up neatly inside one shroud. This results in a |
| upgrade of the old composite cable that gave you one | | | | cable about the sane diameter as a USB cable, |
| cable for the video and two, a left and right channel, | | | | making them ideal for built in audio/video systems. |
| for the audio. Composite cable was not able to | | | | By taking those 0s and 1s, delivering them with no drop |
| support digital signal. The component cable also came | | | | out at all, they transform a mediocre picture into the |
| with three cables but in this instance they were for the | | | | highest quality presently possible. Now if your TV, DVD |
| three colors channels (red green and blue) supported | | | | player etc is not HD ready then buying these cables is |
| by TVs of that time. They did improve the quality of | | | | a total waste of money and to be honest they would |
| the picture but only when you had them plugged in | | | | probably not have HDMI connections anyway. |
| correctly. Again this cable is only intended to support | | | | My point is here, there is a big difference between the |
| analogue signals and so is NOT HDMI compatible, as | | | | two and there is no such thing as a HDMI component |
| signals for and from High Def equipment are digital. | | | | cable. Before you buy HDMI cables be sure your TV |
| So to the latest cables, designed to transfer digital | | | | has HDMI connections and if it does you would be a |
| signals for the most up to date range of home | | | | fool not to use them. |