Posted by the dog from that film you saw on 09/26/06 19:08

"TDK-R" < @ .com> wrote in message
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>>
>>when it comes to a digital signal you'd have to be daft. - there's no PC
>>hiding in that cable reprogramming the 1's and 0's.
>>
>>you have to wonder how the type of person silly enough to buy such a thing
>>ever earns that amount of cash!
>
> Well actually what a lot of people don't know is just because
> something is digital that doesn't mean there is no signal loss. Even a
> short fiber optic cable of 6 inches (15.24 cm) can have horrible
> signal loss straight out of the factory. I've seen some for sale for
> home theater with 30% signal loss and the difference in the sound is
> quite different. There is no silences but you can loose a lot when
> working with high frequency signals. However the prices of extremely
> high quality cord, especially long ones, is insanely priced. but that
> is due to it mean for businesses with deep pockets, not for consumers
> who actually think about prices. Those consumers that have the kind of
> money to put cords like these in their home generally are the ones
> that know about business and not about what they need in there home
> theater system. At least in America. :)~



but!
and it's a big one.

if your cable is so bad as to lose signal, with digital you'll know -
because if it's too much for the error correction to deal with you'll have
picture corruption - it's not like with analogue where you can have a fuzzy
picture - with the digital you either have it, or you dont.


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Gareth.
A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
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