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Kordz Cables voted the best
KORDZ is crowned "Best HDMI Cables" in the Smarthouse Magazine Trio Awards for 2008. This follows the award earlier this year for "Best Cable Range 2008" in the Smarthouse Best-of-the-best awards.
The BEST cables can therefore be defined as those of which get the signal from source to sink as intact as possible, having the absolute least influence on what’s travelling inside.
They cannot improve the signal from the source (as some may claim), without active intervention that is, but rather leave the signal alone and just pass it through with purity and transparency... that’s our job at KORDZ®.
It’s rather ironic for us as a cable manufacturer that we’ve done our job best when your system performs like there are no cables there, but instead performs like a direct connection!
HDMI
Cables Evolution Series
HDMI uses a time based
transmission format, TMDS, (Transition Minimized Differential
Signaling,) and as such is subject to jitter errors where
jitter is the fluctuation in the timing delivery each digital
bit.
Also, HDMI is based on twisted
pair cabling, and hence is also subject to skew errors, which
are delivery and interaction based errors either between the two
cores in a twisted pair (intra-pair skew), or errors occurring
due to unwanted interactions between twisted pair groups
(inter-pair skew). This is more a function of quality of cable
construction and length. So HDMI is subject to both jitter and
skew... hmmm, not so good.
But wait, there's more...
whilst Dolby Digital® and DTS™ are both 'packet data' based,
their bitsreams are embedded into the TMDS stream in between the
larger video data strings, and hence their delivery is also
subject to the same errors as the picture. However it's just the
data packets that are carried in modular form, but they are
still data packets.
In the presence of enough
jitter and/or skew to result in visual degradation of the
picture, the data packets may lose enough information to not be
decoded 100% completely.
This is the reason why you may
sometimes have an HDMI connection with operational video (albeit
degraded), but lose audio altogether. You can't decode a partial
signal, remember it's all 1s and 0s - black and white, no grey.
True of Dolby Digital® and DTS™. So if you lose audio in your
HDMI connection, you're probably also inadvertently degrading
the picture to a noticeable degree, even if it still appears
complete.
KORDZ is crowned "Best HDMI
Cables" in the Smarthouse Magazine Trio Awards for 2008. This
follows the award earlier this year for "Best Cable Range 2008"
in the Smarthouse Best-of-the-best awards.
