Originally Posted by
tiff_lee
Blimey its taken all this time for me to get a reply in! my god the internet is pants on this base carrier pigeon would be more efficient anyhow..
I wasn't trying to incite an argument I was just saying there is no difference as it's a digital signal so it's either on or off, 1 or 0 etc. It's not like the traditional analogue signal used for tv's which had basically infinite variations and any degradation in the signal naturally affected picture quality.
Naturally build quality is reflected in the price as you said you have had some that haven't lasted long but ultimately I can't help but feel paying over the odds just gives a placebo effect.
On the subject of 'tech' I was planning on getting a Sony receiver which if I recall would accept upto 4 hdmi inputs. It would pass the video signal to the tv via an output hdmi cable but also produce the surround sound from the input hdmi signal giving you digital audio supposed to analogue using traditional rca's.
Again whether or not you could really hear the difference in digital audio over analogue is debatable.