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Universalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.

(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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Errr no, not exactly
While I agree that expensive cables are a rip-off, it's not true that "the signal that comes down the co-ax is the same". The digital data in the broadcast signal is processed to produce a different signal. You can't wire the coax directly into the HDMI (or SCART or whatever)!

If nothing else, the video and audio are sent separately, in different forms and requiring different kinds of connection (because of the wildly different frequencies and bandwidths).
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 10:18, Reply)

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