Quote Originally Posted by Feanor View Post
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.