24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
2:49 p.m.
On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
I confess I had a HUGE noise problem in my mediacenter until I got one of these
"premium" S-Video cables...And suddenly, all video became crispy and beautiful.
I'm in love with my mediacenter (until when I get a plasma TV :D)
The difference is that S-video is analog, while HDMI is digital.
S-video will degrade noticeably when subjected to noise; HDMI, on
the other hand, will basically work more or less OK up until the
point where it suddenly stops working.
Premium cables are effective (to a point) on analog systems,
though I think Monster very much oversells it and charges a lot
more than you can get equivalently good cables for. They also
have complete nonsense like "premium power cables", which are
bogus because if you have noisy power, nicer power cables are
just going to transmit the noise more accurately (though I'm
not convinced they make a difference at all).
- Dave