Honeywell, in cooperation with the Borg, develop self-healing HDMI cable

Yesterday there was Monster Cable's Speed-Rated HDMI cables and today, Honeywell's CURxE self-healing cable. Sounds like someone in the marketing department decided that the error correcting built into the HDMI spec wasn't good 'nough and told the engineers to incorporate a little chip into the cable. Of course brightly colored LEDs were added to help potential suckers justify the extra expense. The last set of enhanced HDMI cables we reviewed, equipped with LEDs and "chips" didn't help the picture at all; it made the picture worse. We don't know how much these HDMI cables are going to retail for or when they are going to be available but honestly, even if we did, we highly doubt anyone would rush out and pick a set up. We have a bad feeling with CEDIA right around the corner, this is only the beginning of off the wall, greed-driven HDMI marketing.

UPDATE: Link now directs to the offical Honeywell PR - more info to come.

[Via Electronic House]

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 30th 2007 11:53AM]

Gotta rotate the modulation!

It won't stop 'em but it'll slow 'em down a little and buy us some time.

[jpn @ Aug 30th 2007 11:58AM]

well, somewhere in here is a "resistance is futile" joke

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 30th 2007 12:02PM]

Resistance is futile if less than one Ohm.

[DYSLEXIA OF BORG @ Aug 30th 2007 9:16PM]

I am dyslexia of borg

Futility is resistant

Your ass will be laminated

[Grizz @ Aug 30th 2007 12:00PM]

For the price you could probibly afford 10 replacement plain cables. Hows that for self healing.

[Ray-- @ Aug 30th 2007 12:14PM]

man if you spend more than $10 for an hdmi cable you're a huge sucker.

[Mike Klein @ Aug 30th 2007 12:15PM]

Give me analog RGB and component video any day over hdcp crap. They do 1080p so why would I want to mess with digital?

[SHopkins @ Aug 30th 2007 12:37PM]

Digital source... digital display... why convert to analog for transmission from the source and then back to digital after reception by the display? That's a D-A and an A-D conversion that's not needed and can degrade the picture quality.

I'll agree that HDMI hasn't lived up to its ease-of-use promises but I'll take a pure digital signal any day. Unless you're using an analog display, HDMI is the way to go if you can get it working smoothly in your system.

Also, anyone buying HDMI cables from a large retail outlet is likely paying 5-10x too much. God bless Monoprice.com, they have the best budget cables around, and in lengths and in-wall ratings that are custom-install friendly!

[Mike Klein @ Aug 30th 2007 12:45PM]

This is a very contentious issue with many saying will do 1080p and others saying no.

I cannot tell the difference myself between the two...so I'll stick with the 'simpler' solution.

My tv manuf. (Sceptre) and other manuals I've looked at indicate rgb will do 1080p...and that's good enough for me. I don't want cp issues.

[Jugomugo @ Aug 30th 2007 12:35PM]

I'm quite happy with my $7 shipped HDMI cable from Newegg.

[This Guy @ Aug 30th 2007 12:49PM]

If your doing 1080p over say 5 ft of cable you need mor then a 7 dollar cable. It just won't pass the signal and you will have failure.

[dpjax @ Aug 30th 2007 1:39PM]

monoprice inexpensive cables 4tw!

[foxdude0486 @ Aug 30th 2007 2:09PM]

I was almost thinking they got that plastic that literally repairs itself dealie going on. I was thinking, "Self Healing? No way!"

[Keith @ Aug 31st 2007 11:08AM]

Exactly -- self-healing implies physical repair; error-correcting is for information repair.

[Dave @ Aug 30th 2007 7:02PM]

When Matt Burns finishes high school, he will realise that error correction is not built into the HDMI spec...

[Matt @ Aug 30th 2007 7:11PM]

Dave - BCH & TDMS error correction and thanks for playing.

[Dave @ Aug 30th 2007 7:26PM]

That will only give you nice, clean audio though, there is no error correction on the video.