AA2643, AA2644, AA2645, AA2646, AA2647, AA2648, AA2852, AA2853 Frequently Asked Questions

Are these cables suitable for use with multi-prodcut control, such as Panasonic's Viera?
Yes, these cables are suitable.

Are these cables compliant with 1.3 specifications and will distribute 1080p signals?
Yes, these cables do support 1080p as per the 1.2 specification. No need to panic about this. Even 1.1 compliant HDMI cables will work fine with 1080p. The newer 1.3 standard is for devices supporting upto 1440p. HDMI 1.3 products have not yet begun to ship and there is no reason to wait for that.

Would this cable improve further the picture I receive on my Samsung LCD 40" HD TV. I currently receive sky HD thorough their supplied HDMI cable and I am satisfied with the HD picture but non HD channels could perhaps be better especially outside broadcasts.
HDMI uses a digital signal for the picture. Changing the cable will produce the same picture, unlike an analogue signal. A poor digital signal will result in loss of the picture and not a poor picture.
A poor picture is usually due to the equipment, yours and the broadcaster and not the cable.
So for the World cup Sky are using the same digital HD signal from the cameras, thought their mixing desk, upto the satellite and back to your house with no loss of quality.
This is not the same for the analogue signal where the signal is compressed resulting in loss of quality. Sky compress the analogue signal so that they can offer the maximum number of TV channels.

As you scan though the channels you will recognise those which they compress more than others.

Outside broadcasting is slightly different. Here the equipment can be a number of years old. Those vans you see might be used for 10 years before they are replaced. Hence the equipment might not be the latest. They also tends to maximise the data compression before transmission back to sky. Bandwidth costs money.

What will happen is that the quality should improve of the next few years as obsolete equipment is replaced with HD equipment.

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