HDMI: A Closer Look Under the Jacket
By Jeff Boccaccio
There are some basic guidelines companies must follow when developing HDMI cables. But each manufacturer has the power to build its own concoction of “Magic Sauce” and still manage to fall within HDMI’s compliance standards.

Have you ever used an HDMI cable that looked beautiful, but when installed it didn’t work?

HDMI cables are not just thrown together. Yet there are those who do buy HDMI products from off-the-shelf inventory in the Far East and then - poof - they find themselves in the cable business. I have a phrase for this: “Manufacturers that design their products and manufactures that just sell them.”




Let's focus on those companies that indeed design their own products. It’s these types of companies where you should be able to get the answers to the questions that will surface here.

Building quality HDMI cables has its challenges, no doubt, so how do companies cope with these challenges and end up with a deliverable that they can stand behind?

There are some basic guidelines that must be followed. But at the end of the day, each cable manufacturer has the power to build its own concoction of “Magic Sauce,” which allows for the cables to take on their own personality and still manage to fall within HDMI’s compliance standards.

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