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Now what we've got here is a claim that they're 'enhancing' the signal. The only thing they could be doing is amping it, since I doubt they're breaking the HDCP encryption, running a sharpening filter on the video data stream, and reencrypting it. And if they were you would not want the cables to do that you'd want your TV or your one of your expensive components to do that (maybe). So they're amping something which doesn't have any degradation anyway, so the stream of 1s and 0s arriving at your TV is BIGGER 1s and 0s, which decode into the EXACT SAME datastream as it wold have with a generic $10 Vaster cable.]]>Nov 7th 2005 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/Nov 8th 2005 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/
That being said, most people outside this forum won't know to look for this and it will be very easy for a salesman to sell these to your average lcd/plasma buyer.]]>Nov 8th 2005 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/
Can't wait to see what you think.]]>Nov 8th 2005 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/07/belkins-new-cables/Dec 6th 2005 8:42AM