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Re:Why you should never pay more than $10 for an HDMI cable ... by Tichy on Thursday April 01, 2010 @09:58AM (#1234573)
Hm, no idea, but I find that very hard to believe. I suspect digital transmission of information is almost impossible without error correction. IANAEE, though (I am not an electronics engineer).
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Re:Why you should never pay more than $10 for an HDMI cable ... by mansr on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:41PM (#1248056)
HDMI does have error correction. Every 8 bits of video data are sent as 10 bits on the wire.
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