For example, the washer and dryer in my apartment complex are industrial-grade and they seem to be built exceptionally well and hold up under constant use for years.
It has to do with timing. There is a degradation of even a digital audio signal in perceivable quality if there is "jitter" in the bitstream. Some high-end audio hardware will re-clock the signal to eliminate this "jitter" but then the problem becomes how to remotely determine the clock accurately off the incoming signal.
It also depends on what you are using the cable for. If you are only doing 1080p at 60hz at 24bit depth then you will be find with the cheap cables.
However, if you are sending higher resolutions and higher color depth then you need a cable that can handle all that bandwidth. Cheap cables start to show sparkles on the screen when the bandwidth hits it's limits.
Other reasons why you need to spend more is if you want features like support for the full list of CEC commands, audio return channel, 3D support and Ethernet channel over HDMI.
These features rarely work on cheap HDMI cables and never work on the cheapo's at lengths greater than about 15' or so.
Trust me, I've bought them from Monoprice and they did not work. But Monoprice has a great return policy so I was able to upgrade to the cables that I needed and that actually worked in my setup.
Hardly anyone has upgraded? I don't even think I know anybody personally that hasn't upgraded from XP to Vista or 7 by now. Even the entire IT department at work is now running on 7 and all the servers are running Server 08 R2.
Also, the college I graduated from last Spring is imaging all the mandatory leased student laptops with Windows 7 this year by default.
If the warranty is voided, then why did Apple replace my broken iPhone under warranty which I had previously jailbroken and restored to factory defaults before taking in.
I can also vouch for this on my 3Gs after updating to iOS4.
Problem wen't away when I downgraded to 3.1.3.
Also, if you take a trip to the Apple store and try to perform this on the new iPhone 4 you will find that the signal doesn't go down no matter how you try to bridge that antenna gap.
My guess is that they are using an ATT microcell in the store to provide the cell signal for demo purposes. Since the bars stay at full it backs up the claim that its related to how the software decides which signal to use and not that the users hand is shorting out the signal.
My 3Gs after updating to iOS4 has the same "bug" as the iPhone 4. If i grip my hand around the phone I lose almost all my bars and sometimes it goes into "searching".
When I downgraded back to 3.1.3, the problem went away. It has to do with how the phone decides which signals to use.
I have the iPhone on ATT and I pay them $49 a month on my plan.
$25 - data
$5 - text
$20 - voice
Subtotal = $50
Subtract 15% work discount - $7.5
Subtotal = $42.5
Add in 13% taxes - $6.5
Grand Total = $49 a month for my iPhone.
$49 x 24 = $1176 for the 2 year contract.
You can put in the $199 price of the phone for some, but it was essentially free since I sold my old iPhone for $400 which covered it's original cost and the cost of the new iPhone.
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Isn't this idea kind of what the 802.11p amendment that was published last summer was for?
And neither support the codecs that most my media is in.
DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD.
I just found it even cheaper to run an HDMI cable from my desktop through the wall into my Receiver and get a cheap wireless mouse/keyboard.
With this I get support for everything forever!
What about industrial-grade appliances?
For example, the washer and dryer in my apartment complex are industrial-grade and they seem to be built exceptionally well and hold up under constant use for years.
It has to do with timing. There is a degradation of even a digital audio signal in perceivable quality if there is "jitter" in the bitstream. Some high-end audio hardware will re-clock the signal to eliminate this "jitter" but then the problem becomes how to remotely determine the clock accurately off the incoming signal.
It also depends on what you are using the cable for. If you are only doing 1080p at 60hz at 24bit depth then you will be find with the cheap cables.
However, if you are sending higher resolutions and higher color depth then you need a cable that can handle all that bandwidth. Cheap cables start to show sparkles on the screen when the bandwidth hits it's limits.
Other reasons why you need to spend more is if you want features like support for the full list of CEC commands, audio return channel, 3D support and Ethernet channel over HDMI.
These features rarely work on cheap HDMI cables and never work on the cheapo's at lengths greater than about 15' or so.
Trust me, I've bought them from Monoprice and they did not work. But Monoprice has a great return policy so I was able to upgrade to the cables that I needed and that actually worked in my setup.
Thats pretty strange. I switched from Firefox to Chrome and Chrome scrolls smother for me. The whole browser just feels faster and more lightweight.
http://xkcd.com/538/
Hardly anyone has upgraded? I don't even think I know anybody personally that hasn't upgraded from XP to Vista or 7 by now. Even the entire IT department at work is now running on 7 and all the servers are running Server 08 R2. Also, the college I graduated from last Spring is imaging all the mandatory leased student laptops with Windows 7 this year by default.
If the warranty is voided, then why did Apple replace my broken iPhone under warranty which I had previously jailbroken and restored to factory defaults before taking in.
I can also vouch for this on my 3Gs after updating to iOS4.
Problem wen't away when I downgraded to 3.1.3.
Also, if you take a trip to the Apple store and try to perform this on the new iPhone 4 you will find that the signal doesn't go down no matter how you try to bridge that antenna gap.
My guess is that they are using an ATT microcell in the store to provide the cell signal for demo purposes. Since the bars stay at full it backs up the claim that its related to how the software decides which signal to use and not that the users hand is shorting out the signal.
It's not really a hardware issue.
My 3Gs after updating to iOS4 has the same "bug" as the iPhone 4. If i grip my hand around the phone I lose almost all my bars and sometimes it goes into "searching".
When I downgraded back to 3.1.3, the problem went away. It has to do with how the phone decides which signals to use.
I have the iPhone on ATT and I pay them $49 a month on my plan.
$25 - data
$5 - text
$20 - voice
Subtotal = $50
Subtract 15% work discount - $7.5
Subtotal = $42.5
Add in 13% taxes - $6.5
Grand Total = $49 a month for my iPhone.
$49 x 24 = $1176 for the 2 year contract.
You can put in the $199 price of the phone for some, but it was essentially free since I sold my old iPhone for $400 which covered it's original cost and the cost of the new iPhone.