Blue Jeans Cables - What's the Difference between a $17 and $150 HDMI cable?

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Blue Jeans Cables - What's the Difference between a $17 and $150 HDMI cable?

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12 жыл бұрын

Watch Kurt Denke from Blue Jeans Cable take you through the A-Z of HDMI cables!

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@NickP333 5 жыл бұрын

Kurt is great and runs an honest and affordable business to those of us who want quality cables but don’t wanna fall for the BS. I have owned expensive speaker cables and BJC spkr cables, and I’ve stuck with their Canare 4S11 cables. Thank you, Kurt! Know it or not, you’re a HiFi legend. 🎶 🔊 😁

@Headphoneaddict 12 жыл бұрын

Super interesting video. A person who works with cables and doesn't give you a ton of BS and marketing gimmicks. What a refreshing thing! Thanks!

@victabeer3960 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sitting on the toilet laying some high speed cable right now.

@dennisgriffith6575 8 жыл бұрын

Blue Jeans Cable is absolutely the best cables and the best value. Correctly designed and of the highest quality. No BS, no snake oil

@aundralambert3783 6 жыл бұрын

not! autoquest is the best for me

@jimolson9671 5 жыл бұрын

100% agree

@jeffadams9699 5 жыл бұрын

aundra lambert, then if you have money to waste let me give you my address to send a check to.

@billybassman21 9 жыл бұрын

I've found the $10 cables on Amazon is all you need. Don't buy the cheap $1 ones, those have very thin wire and may have issues with signal loss and EMI, not the mention quality and durability issues. I've personally experienced this with screen going black, freezing and rainbow static with the cheapest ones. The standard ones work great. The expensive ones are a scam.

@phototristan 9 жыл бұрын

Kurt is the real deal. i totally respect him.

@sylphialon 9 жыл бұрын

+PHOTOTRISTAN I'm glad you respect him. I've known him since the day I was born, and he's been there for me for almost 19 years now. I'm proud to be his daughter. :)

@beyondonethousand 9 жыл бұрын

+Naomi Moore Hey Naomi your dad is the real deal. No lies or pies in skies. Next are the ten white speaker cable for my home theatre.

@sylphialon 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for supporting Blue Jeans Cable :) I'm glad to know that my parents have helped people get the cable they need at reasonable prices!

@Smokey66s 5 жыл бұрын

I agree deserves an introduction also read his rebuttal to Monster cable accusations, outstanding!

@richardtibbits6279 9 жыл бұрын

Kurt gives much insight and a lot of detail during this interview. Much appreciated! Kevin, please take a basic TV production course that covers microphone placement for interviews. Trying to listen to this technical information got "painful" by the end of the video. At least point the microphone at the speaker. Thanks!

@cliveyoung3619 8 жыл бұрын

+Richard Tibbits totally agree with that , they should have shirt miked the interviewee. a lot of fantastic info that was difficult to hear.

@dossipdan9173 7 жыл бұрын

Is he the guy who sent that reply letter to Monster Cable lawyers and owned them by the horns ? lol

@peterr.7429 6 жыл бұрын

Finally some common sense .... thank you so much

@beyondonethousand 10 жыл бұрын

I have a high end home theatre system with expensive pre/pro and multichannel power amp and I am running 7.1 analogue from Blu-ray to pre/pro. I was looking at Cardas, Neotech, Nordost, and a few others for my system. I decided to look at the reality of interconnects as well as talking to professionals on the phone. I decided to buy interconnects for the Blu-ray 7.1 and pre/pro to multichannel amp and sensibly settled for a company that will keep the sound totally uncolored and pure without glitz and 800% to 10,000% inflated price for this performance. I just ordered Blue Jeans Cable LC1 for everything I need to hook up.

@LudicFallacies 6 жыл бұрын

If coaxial cable geometry was good for RCA analog interconnects you'd see more companies in the industry use such cables. Great for SP/DIF and LFE but not l/r line-level signals IMO due to impedance differences between the conductor and return.

@Mistah2 7 жыл бұрын

I ordered cables from them a couple years ago and was really impressed. I think they are worth the cost if you're serious about your home theater setup.

@Drive-n-Vibe 8 жыл бұрын

digital is either there or it isn't. however, spending £15 rather than going for the £2 cables is probably going to mean that they last longer and don't malfunction, which is an issue ive had before

@Mostlyharmless1985 7 жыл бұрын

James Denton I'd need that 2£ cable to fail 9 more times in a row. The odds of that are pretty slim for a digital system that corrects errors.

@Drive-n-Vibe 7 жыл бұрын

that's true, but those cable work intermittently and when they do go, you have to wait for them to ship.

@carlosoliveira-rc2xt 4 жыл бұрын

You have no clue how digital works.

@cristic767 4 жыл бұрын

@@carlosoliveira-rc2xt , how digital works?

@carlosoliveira-rc2xt 4 жыл бұрын

A $15 cable and a $2 cable is the same thing. They're both cheap cables. Nothing to do with structural integrity.

@ricksanchezz8130 6 жыл бұрын

Blue Jeans are a good cable well built for the money, however their specs on crazy low capacitance was not close to their specs when we tested them.

@xtlm 6 жыл бұрын

I'd pay a small premium for a cable made in the USA. Did not know about this company until just now...and I just bought a cable yesterday lol

@mediapc4747 3 жыл бұрын

You get the feeling he's waited his whole life to be asked this.

@TheoRoll 11 жыл бұрын

Good to see the folks at BJC given a voice. Watch out for that 'auto white balance' on your camera. Also, don't be afraid to make a few cuts.

@claypf4795 5 жыл бұрын

The importance of locking down your white balance at 1:47

@asrarhassan 9 жыл бұрын

go to amazon check product rating buy any cable falls between 10$ to $15 and that's all you'll need.

@aundralambert3783 6 жыл бұрын

yes only if you have a cheap system and don't care about video and auto quality

@bdirisadok1980 5 жыл бұрын

That's basically what I go through with my RF cables and antenna coaxs.

@johnhodgson5313 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for an explanation of HDMI cables that doesn't involve magic and dubious explanations

@LudicFallacies 6 жыл бұрын

I'm a custom installer/integrator and used to buy boxes of these Belden sourced cables until I had a batch that failed at the connector. Blue Jeans would not return the product and I didn't return to do business with them.

@migry 9 жыл бұрын

I'll hazard an answer. What's the difference? $17 cable is $15 profit and $150 is $148 profit? Is that correct. Do I win the prize? BTW I've never seen sparkles or flashes with even the cheapest of HDMI cables.

@mewimi 9 жыл бұрын

migry Probably has to do more with run length and signal degradation.

@RyanTaylor-pi8gq 8 жыл бұрын

+migry He fairly clearly says that most people in most common configurations wouldn't. He also says explicitly that a 2$ cable will perform perfectly in most applications. I don't know why so many people seem to rage-face at this guy without listening to what he said. There are a lot of rich people who set up very long runs inside walls for elaborate home theater setups. Have you ever run 50 feet of hdmi? How about 150? Did it work with 2$ cables? You probably aren't this guy's target market and he's being very up front about that. I honestly don't know how he could make it clearer. He even says explicitly that if you have a cable of a given length that appears to provide a consistent image, it doesn't matter how much it cost. Are people just showing up here and popping off without listening to a thing he said?

@MarkTillotson 6 жыл бұрын

Actually the $150 cable likely costs a bit more to make, so its more like $15 profit v. $140 profit!

@weposXR8 11 жыл бұрын

that was the best 31.25 minutes of sleep ever lmao

@beyondonethousand 4 жыл бұрын

Correct. I went to my doctor for sleep medication and he referred me to this video. Best prescription ever. Thanks Doc, your a lifesaver.

@thetruthspeaker5101 4 жыл бұрын

If your HDMI plugs are good quality the difference to a better cable is - a lower gauge wire. The theory is true with speaker cables , no and I’m not referring to expensive speaker cable. You can purchase 14 or 12 AWG speaker wire with a good set of banana plugs and could make a great pair of speaker wire.

@edwilson6076 8 жыл бұрын

Using HDMI to network my CCTV to all four of my TV's, I get sparkles on only one - the one that uses inferior quality cable over a fair distance (20+ feet). From what Kurt says, I could use a booster or better cable. Now it's just a matter of cost. Ta, Kurt.

@JD-hs7ib 7 жыл бұрын

Great video an interview.

@GMKDP 10 жыл бұрын

9:00 to 16:00 basically dont bend your cable. That just about sums that part up

@andrewcullen8635 7 жыл бұрын

So what he said was that if you wanted a 40 Ft cable to join to another 40 Ft cable then you will need a god cable, Ten says that theirs are guarentee up to 25 Ft? So is he saying his are crap? And also that you need luck as more expensive is not better as they are all going to China to havethe ends put on because of the difficulty of soldering the wires into the ends.? I watched a video that showed then using a system similar to the BT where they push a wire through a cutter so are not soldered any way

@zososldier 7 жыл бұрын

In short runs, No. There is no difference at all. It is either a quality cable that works, or it doesn't. It's not a coax that semi works. It's digital so its good or it isn't. On longer cables over ~20 ft, yes. but not $100-500 difference. People are buy a name with this product. You will get the same signal from a cable on amazon with a good rating.

@xliles84 8 жыл бұрын

I've had a cheap hdmi cable that was only 3 feet in length that threw those sparkles on the image.

@stuartp2915 7 жыл бұрын

The difference is that if you cut open a $17 cable you will find it is full of air, however if you cut open a $150 cable you will discover that it is full of snake oil.

@MarkTillotson 6 жыл бұрын

The addage is that if you spend more on it, it sounds better. To you. Not to anyone else, just to you!

@aundralambert3783 6 жыл бұрын

you sound lost

@Lesterandsons 3 жыл бұрын

Difference approx 120 USD, I keep it

@beefcake0354 10 жыл бұрын

how could this vdo possibly be 31 mins long on that topic? the answer is simply "same" .. because it is DIGITAL.

@derbigpr500 9 жыл бұрын

Yea...um...it's not as simple as you think. It's very easy to fuck up a cable and make it perform worse than it should, despite being digital. It's only when you start comparing two PROPERLY designed and manufactured cables that they become identical in performance.

@Coilaman 9 жыл бұрын

And what about all the interference that has a huge effect on performance of these cables? Oak, you are dumb as a tree. Yes, the oak tree.

@beefcake0354 9 жыл бұрын

MuristekTV yeah I'm dumb. and so as all computer engineers around the world who know how DIGITAL works. go ahead mister "I'm so smart I have to insult strangers on Internet cause it makes me feel good", go spend thousands of dollars on cables. none of my fucking business idiot.

@10CentHead 4 жыл бұрын

@@Coilaman If you have RF or EMI interference powerful enough to interfere with HDMI signals, you've got bigger problems than a poor cable.... you might want to get out of your house.

@zebratangozebra 6 жыл бұрын

Great information in this video. An HDMI cable has 19 wires. All HDMI cables in the world are terminated in China....etc

@perfectk8129 7 жыл бұрын

What I got from this along with what I know. Keep it short without bending the cord, don't do all that extra shit & crazy multiple connections/couplers, there's NO picture/audio difference & if the cable is bad it won't work AT ALL

@russellhamner4898 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure about HDMI, but if your speaker cables didn't cost more than your house then you might as well just use the earbuds that came with your iPhone 1.

@nataflet 7 жыл бұрын

The question is, does HDMI suffer from jitter/EMI/RFI like USB cables? You NEED proper shielded USB cable when you carry Audio data. I don't know if this is needed also for HDMI. I heard video is tied together to audio, so audio is not a separate channel on HDMI cables so a better HDMI won't make any difference in AUDIO quality. Maybe some people care about AUDIO.

@Mostlyharmless1985 7 жыл бұрын

GraveNoX if it's got the badge, it will perform, period. It's a work or doesn't work proposition.

@twiztidpixel1788 11 жыл бұрын

1:49 I'm blue da ba dee da ba die

@Mk101T 8 жыл бұрын

Ohhh Whaaaat? Does this mean I can't get my choclatey mids through those near miracle cables from the likes of Audio Quest?

@Metal-Possum 7 жыл бұрын

That whole "but the expensive cables are more durable" argument is completely moot. I saw a monoprice vs monster cable comparison in regards to durability. The monoprice cable came out on top. If the expensive cables are more durable... You can buy several hundred monoprice cables for the same price as a single "high end" HDMI cable. Try and convince me that a single expensive HDMI cable is going to hold out longer than say... an equivalent value of monoprice cables. And even so, most people plug them in and leave them there, and they never do fail. Long runs? If it's got the HDMI stamp and you can get a picture out of it? It's working fine. I've used some budget 10 metre (30 feet) cables from a reputable electronics store here, and had no troubles.

@bobsaturday4273 7 жыл бұрын

we all pretty much know the difference is the ration between money and brains

@1959Berre 8 жыл бұрын

There is a very large difference, the price difference is 135 $ LOL

@frankjames4573 6 жыл бұрын

The $135 bucks is for thier time discussing the cable ... lol

@dtv266 7 жыл бұрын

I forgot what the topic was.llloooongggg

@nickkerr1876 4 жыл бұрын

The company is called Blue Jeans Cable, not Blue Jean Cables.

@Francois15031967 8 жыл бұрын

133 $

@khoi83 3 жыл бұрын

What's the Difference between a $17 and $150 HDMI cable? 133 $ less in your bank account.

@yougotjokeshuh 11 жыл бұрын

if your stuck between a 60 and 10 dollard hdmi just get the 60 50 extra dollars wonmt mkae a difference

@baronofgreymatter14 4 жыл бұрын

133 dollars

@assocpress 4 жыл бұрын

This video was made with a 50 cents cable.

@weposXR8 11 жыл бұрын

same:D

@nunyabiz2016 4 жыл бұрын

When he said Republic of China did he mean "People's Republic of China"? Sounds like that's what he meant

@GMKDP 10 жыл бұрын

9-16 dont bend your cable just about sums it up.

@bridgettegulino8954 8 жыл бұрын

@scottlowell493 9 жыл бұрын

I WILL NOT buy *ANY* cables except blue jeans. Period. The end.

@beyondonethousand 7 жыл бұрын

Scott Lowell That's what they all said until the upgrade bug bit them. Resist. 😀

@scottlowell493 7 жыл бұрын

ChrisHallett83 Often, there is no upgrade. It's just different. More expensive cables include RC networks that roll off treble. That's a downgrade for me.

@vanhetgoor 5 жыл бұрын

It would have been much more efficient if less words were used.

@mikegoddard7354 3 жыл бұрын

They are not social distancing XDDD

@jeremybettinger1536 6 жыл бұрын

Billie blue Jean cable is not my lover she just the tells me I am the one the kid is not my son

@capnrob97 7 жыл бұрын

A cheap speaker wire from the 1970s will transmit digital signals all day long.

@wric01 2 жыл бұрын

Goddam brass connectors and lead solder make cable lose much of the signal. Mass manufacturing only get you exterior bling with piss poor conductivity.

@aundralambert3783 6 жыл бұрын

don't let this video trick you, there is a performance difference between all hdmi cables.

@angelgonzalez14 11 жыл бұрын

haha I like how he says the cables from $2-$150 are no difference in quality - goes on to explain differences based on impedance and how length is a determining factor. Then that there are differences in how their company makes them. What a fool for his comments

@adamscott38 11 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, change your damn bright mic for a better one. Please.

@neato4u 11 жыл бұрын

yawn.. i slept half way

@frederf69 Жыл бұрын

$133 😂😂🤣🤣

@ka7niq 7 жыл бұрын

I found Blue Jean Cables to be very expensive. I can get a 20 ft PAIR of Canare 411 Biwire cables terminated with banana cables for 53 dollars shipped on Ebay. Blue Jean Cables wants 63 dollars for ONE 20 ft cable before shipping. LOL, I guess Kurt Danke likes to wear expensive Blue Jeans ?

@juliaset751 5 жыл бұрын

That doesn’t sound right about the Canare price. I’m guessing you got some fake cable there. IMHO, I would never buy cables on Ebay, that’s just asking for trouble.

@JoeBlow-cw4pu 7 жыл бұрын

SUCH a scam. Make no mistake Audioquest is the biggest purveyor of the "high priced fancy shmansy" speaker cables & audio cables. Blind audio tests have proven this time & time again. Lamp cord (zipcord) vs the big brand names and no one can tell the difference. Wire gauge is ALL that matters. All you are doing is making an electrical connection. A fool and his $$ are quickly parted.....remember that the next time you see Audioquest, Kimber Kable, Tributaries, etc..

@josedealva4205 5 жыл бұрын

cables made in the usa with china sourced materials. like Gilmour scribbling a signature on a squier to sell it for tens of thousands.

@capnrob97 7 жыл бұрын

It is all digital. How is 'virgin silver wire' or whatever crap they are selling make a difference on the '0110110110000' coming over the wire? I know how it goes. "Well, our $1500 cables brighten up the digital signal and make it sound more alive , and breathing'