HDMI Cable Brands Don't Matter

[Feanor]

HDMI was not designed with sound quality in mind, it was made to be convenient for the average consumer. It has numerous very thin wires in a small cable attached to a small connector, so it bends easy and is not heavy. This is why, as someone else said, they fail alot. Nobody can make great improvements to a poor design which is limited, like you said, by the small size of it's connector. When I first saw it I couldn't believe we were going to be sending high quality sound AND video through such a small cable. What were they thinking?!!

Experts like Wooch or Sir Terrence would likely agree that HDMI wasn't designed to convey analog signals or even a continuous bit streams like a S/PDIF signal; (they'll correct me if I'm wrong). It was designed, (maybe not optimally), to carry structured data. In this respect it is like USB or CAT 5e or 6 cable.

In case of data, the receiving systems is properly supposed to detect transmission failures and compensate in some way, e.g. request that the data be resent. Thus data cables either work or they don't.

[frenchmon]

Experts like Wooch or Sir Terrence would likely agree that HDMI wasn't designed to convey analog signals or even a continuous bit streams like a S/PDIF signal; (they'll correct me if I'm wrong). It was designed, (maybe not optimally), to carry structured data. In this respect it is like USB or CAT 5e or 6 cable.

In case of data, the receiving systems is properly supposed to detect transmission failures and compensate in some way, e.g. request that the data be resent. Thus data cables either work or they don't.

It has error correction code that makes the data redundant so as to free the error. This code is an industry standard.