Who Has the Toughest HDMI Cable?
Strongmen from PPC and DirectConnect put their products through the paces.
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TVs dangling by a thread, or in this case locking HDMI cables from PPC

By Julie Jacobson | 01.25.2010
Let’s face it, integrators have a love-hate relationship with HDMI cables. They fall out of components. They’re terribly unforgiving if you bend them too far or damage the connector. And that’s just the beginning.

For the past couple of years, cable manufacturers have implemented clever ways to overcome the inherent problems of the HDMI standard.

PPC, for example, started the “locking HDMI” movement back in 2008, but other contenders have emerged since then to provide solutions for the nagging problem of HDMI cables falling out of components.

Numerous other manufacturers have made cables and connectors that flex, pivot and terminate in the field.

Who really has the hardiest HDMI cables?

During CES 2010, strongmen from PPC (Perfect Path) and DirectConnect showed us just how beefy they are. The cables, that is.

Judge for yourself.





Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.



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