Wireworld's New $1,000 HDMI Cable Delivers on Performance Promise Of New HD Sources

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Wireworld, the company that debuted the world's first upmarket HDMI cables in 2004, just introduced a new flagship HDMI cable that delivers the highest levels of performance the company has ever offered. The Platinum Starlight HDMI cable features molded carbon fiber connectors, the company's unique new 24-conductor DNA Helix™ design with solid silver conductors, and high-speed/high-bandwidth capabilities to meet even the most stringent system requirements - including the new HDMI v1.4 High Speed with Ethernet specification. MSRP for the Platinum Starlight is $1,000 for a 1.0 meter cable.

"Now that Blu-Ray players are the primary source for both movies and music in home theater systems," comments Wireworld President and founder David Salz, "the HDMI cable connecting the player to the system has become the most important audio cable in the entire system. The Platinum Starlight HDMI cable addresses the need to provide the highest possible audio and video fidelity in high end home theater installations." the Platinum Starlight HDMI cable employs Wireworld's new, patent-pending DNA Helix conductor design, which uses 24 solid silver conductors -- double that of conventional HDMI designs -- arranged with an innovative symmetrical geometry designed to neutralize impedance variations at every point along the cable's length. These advancements maximize available speed and bandwidth for the signal path while also reducing noise and jitter effects for substantial overall improvements in signal fidelity and dynamic response. The cable is capable of transfer rates of up to 21 Gbits per second, far exceeding the HDMI group's recently announced v1.4 High Speed with Ethernet specification of 10.2 Gbits per second.

Platinum Starlight HDMI cables will be available in February of 2010 in lengths ranging from 0.3 meter to 30 meters. Retail pricing for a 1.0 meter cable is $1,000.

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  • By MungoJerry

WTF? Everybody knows that HDMI is a DIGITAL spec, right? And that things like "jitter" and "noise" don't apply. And if you've got an impedance mismatch large enough to affect speed or bandwidth, your cable's probably broken.

What do you suppose the production run is on these, a couple dozen? I mean, I can see a few high-end audio shops might want to have one on display, just for laughs (excuse me, I mean "our most discerning customers"), but nobody really buys these for use, do they?

  • By barry

The popular or simple thinking on the HDMI is that the cables don't make a difference because they're digital. This is not true, strictly speaking. Just like for digital audio cables, jitter makes a difference. The trigger boundaries on the digital signal will vary so even though it's digital, it has to work in an analog world. SPDIF, toslink and AES digital audio cables make a difference in sound for reasons that are finally well understood. The HDMI cable is particularly prone to jitter, so the audio quality could vary quite a bit. Picture quality varies too. Try it out. For me, and many enthusiasts there is a vast difference between any of the Wireworld offerings and cheap throw away HDMI cables. Don't buy Monster, take the same money and buy something that is actually good!

Saying HDMI cables are the same is pretty lightweight engineering.

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