Honeywell HDMI Cable Earns Highest DPL Rating

Hi, and how much will it retail for? Also, where can i get some sort of comparison between this cable and the others outthere?
Thanks!

They have obviously paid for these tests thus the results are no surprise.

Pointless reporting on this and a pointless article as most HDMI cables will do just as good a job without you having to spend a small fortune…I recommend IXOS myself.

DUH!  ALL companies pay to have their items certified by whatever standards group does the certification.

Do you think Underwriters Laboratory does the work for free?  Nope.  DPL does not do it for free either.

The cable earned the rating it received.

As for being pointless, that is for the buyer to decide.  I have seen $15,000 speakers.  If someone is spending that much case, the price of this cable is minor - especially when it has been proven to be the best there is.  No snake oil needed.

The article is meaningless.  Yu show the classes but NOT the performance criteria, such as bit error rate.  Bottom line, can a large, diversem group of viewers tell the difference between this cable and a lower-rated one in a true double blind viewing test.  We’re not idiots, show us the data and run REAL tests.

You should contact DPL Labs directly to obtain more in-depth performance testing results if you are interested.

If you have experienced an HDMI issue related to the cable, that does not automatically make it a problem. If anything, it most likely means its a chipset problem in the TV set that cannot recover the signal adequately across all cable variations.  Plain and Simple. 

And there is no quality of cable that can made a bad chipset work well.  Unfortunately, HDMI allows for much lower quality chipsets compared to something like Gigabit Ethernet.

first sentence should say “make it a CABLE problem”. 

don’t buy this expensive hype, you’ll likely never see any source device transport 16-bit depth color content or 120Hz refresh rates across a cable.

Most .5m cables could pass this test ,let’s see them make a 15m cable pass these tests and I will be impressed.
BTW..I also want to know how much these cables cost,I’ll bet an arm and a leg.

“They have obviously paid for these tests thus the results are no surprise.”

They do not pay for the results only the procedure. It is not uncommon to send in a product several times (costing each time) to get the score that a mfg. wants. While there is a very defined math to the build of a cable it is hard (and expensive) to apply this to the actual build process.

“don’t buy this expensive hype, you’ll likely never see any source device transport 16-bit depth color content or 120Hz refresh rates across a cable.”

You are kidding right.

“Most .5m cables could pass this test ,let’s see them make a 15m cable pass these tests and I will be impressed.”

As a competitor to Honeywell I can tell you that very few cables can/will pass this level of testing (much stricter than what HDMI LLC requires). I do not think that you will see a cable longer than 6 meters that will truly support 1.3 deep color (at least in the near future).

When DPL gives their results to a mfg. it is up to the mfg. to decide if the score is relevant to the price point of the product, it is expensive and time consuming to create a level 4 or 5 cable (high throw away rate) .

This program has already increased the overall performance level of the participating companies (simply because they all want to get a better score than their compitition).

It is common for a manufacturer to work with an outside certification firm like UL, THX or in this case DPL to ensure that the cable performs up to the testing criterion.

Many products fail and through the commmunication process between these firms and the manufacturer they can solve the problems that prevent a product from receiving whatever certification it is going after.

It Is Sad How Many People React For Something That They Think Is Too Expensive Just Because They Don’t Want To Pay For It.  Many Of Them Think That All Cables Are The Same.  Well One Thing I Know Is True, Tests Don’t Lie.  Either You Like The Results Or Not.  Every Cable Will Perform Differently.  Doesn’t Make Any Sense To Me To Buy A $50,000 Projector, A $5,000 Screen, A $3,000 Blu-ray Player And A $15.00 HDMI Cable To Make The Connection.  It Is Kind Of Like When You Put Synthetic Oil And Premium Gasoline In Your Engine.  You Might Not Notice The Difference But The Dynamo Test Will Show It.  Just Think About It.  Silver And Copper Have Different Element Caracteristics And Therefore When Compared In Any Situation, They Will Perform Differently.  Please Don’t Hate.  Peace…