Quote Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
I'm not so sure that digital is digital. As in all cables there are two camps. One saying as long as it works the cable is fine and the other claiming better cables help. I personally, in audio have noticed differences but mainly from the difference in the source that delivered the signal. I did have a compatibility problem between my cable box and processor that the manufacturer of my processor was able to cure, but I'm not so sure what the issue was. The manufacturer blamed an inferior digital transmission from the cable box. I haven't had enough A/b of digital cables to take a hard line with either camp. I'm leaning toward at least a better than average cable though because digital can still be effected by outside interference which could cause additional clocking and error correction issues that could theoretically be audible. The same thing I'd think could hold true for video.
Sorry but we will have to disagree on this one. There is so much error correction in todays signals that even if you lose a portion you will still get a valid signal, al you need really is a cable to get the signal to your device.
And the digital signal wont "change", as long as it reaches its destination it will sound the same as when it started once its decoded