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Yeah reviews are quite off-putting, even if you account for fibre cables being flimsy
74%, 4 - 5 stars.
Yeah but it's Amazon. Their reviews are all crap. Any fake brand has fake reviews. There are literally guides on the internet to fake reviews, hijacking listings, etc.
Been using 2 of these for years and they’re still going strong!
Bought one - did not work.
With fibre HDMI cables and with "boosted" HDMI cables, a lot of people don't read the instructions, and assume the cable can be plugged in "either way around", like ordinary HDMI cables.
This assumption is incorrect. One plug is the "input" plug (for connection to the signal source), and the other is the "output" plug (for connection to the display). This isn't particularly well marked on this cable, it looks like the plug with "2" (and a tiny triangle) is the output plug. The photos don't show if there's a "1" on the input connector.
Years ago I was called in to debug why a brand-new cable wasn't working, after it had been installed in the walls and ceiling of a house. You guessed it, it wasn't clearly marked that it was a directional cable, and the installer had installed it the wrong way around. Don't make the same mistake!
OP, you should add that you have to use the "Buy More, Save More
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Overkill for short distances. If your source and display are close together (say, under ~5-10 metres depending on requirements), a good copper HDMI cable will do just fine and at much lower cost. You likely won’t see much difference.
I agree. Amazon Basic's shortest version is 9.3m long.
I personally wouldn't buy a cable with this technology for a run <=10m.
I believe HDMI 2.1 full bandwidth is limited to around 3m in copper cable.
Unless you just want an ultra thin cable, which is why I went for them.
Also been using them for years with zero issues.
Yes, another thing to consider is that copper will last indefinitely however this fiber tech means there are electronics at both ends which could fail at any time.
copper will last indefinitely
No it won't. HDMI cables have solid-core (not stranded) copper wires, which will snap after being flexed a number of times. As long cables like the 7.5m one are frequently used to connect a laptop to a screen in business meetings, solid-core copper wires are a negative here.
If you're never moving or unplugging the cable, only then are copper HDMI cables better.
I went through quite a few failed HDMI cables before I cut one open to see why they failed. You can buy better-quality copper HDMI cables, these are invariably much thicker, to prevent sharp bends of the inner wires, which makes them last longer. But they still don't last forever.
I was more referring to a cable in a wall for example if left untouched, the copper would be better for that, whereas one tiny component of the electronics in the fiber cable could fail and it would be useless.
But yes good point about copper cables breaking if are moved around often, although the quality ones seem to last pretty well. Wouldn't the fiber optic cables be also fragile for that use case though?
I just checked and apparently the majority of HDMI cables are stranded not solid core.
Why such a difference in length?
Would this be an improvement over the HDMI cables that comes with PS5?
17% 1 star reviews isn't promising.