I have just bought a new HD telly after nagging from the missus and it gets delievered this wednesday. We have a Virgin V+HD box and I know that we now need to get a HDMI cable in order to benefit from the HD part of the telly. The problem is I have been online and every man and his dog seems to sell a different type or make of HDMI cable from cheap as chips to 'oh my christ ... how much??'.

Can anyone please point me in the right direction as to what cable I should be looking at. Is it really a case of more money spent = better quality picture ?!?!

Thanks.

its digital so cable quality will make no difference at all, the only thing that can improve is the plug but unless you spend crazy money i wouldn't bother and just buy a boggo one.

Apologies everyone - 'he who uses the search function after posting his query can be made to look quite the fool' as confucious or whatever he was called said. Now found the answer to my query which seems to be cheap is as good as expensive therefore problem solved.

Can moderator please delete this thread. Thanks.

Thanks Bengie

Too late but for future reference - Virgin customers are entitled to an HDMI cable when you have the V+ box fitted, but this won't be offered to you, you'll need to ask. The engineers carry them in their vans.

If your stuck Asdas and Tesco, do them for about 7-10 quid, and they do the job well enough,

A top tip for anyone with a V+ box and HDMI............. occasionally some boxes lose picture but still transmit sound and nothing seems to fix it. For some reason, taking the HDMI cable out at both ends and replaceing it often works. Something to do with the HDMI handshake that goes on between the 2 devices................

And yes, VM will supply you with a cable, but you may need to call them and they will either post one or engineer doing an install will supply one.

Steve

Aldi do one for £4.99 which works great with my Sammy 32" and Xbox360

Don't forget when you plug the HDMI in to make sure you change the settings on the V+ box to widescreen 720p

we got a hd ready tv, bought a new hdmi digi box and hdmi cable to find the tv doesnt have a hdmi socket :(

we got a hd ready tv, bought a new hdmi digi box and hdmi cable to find the tv doesnt have a hdmi socket :(

It's not funny but it did make me smile lol

I think i'd have cried

we got a hd ready tv, bought a new hdmi digi box and hdmi cable to find the tv doesnt have a hdmi socket :(

what make was that, seems pretty unusual.

we got a hd ready tv, bought a new hdmi digi box and hdmi cable to find the tv doesnt have a hdmi socket :(

just had a look at the requirements to have an HD Ready label and hdmi isn't one of them, its the following:

The display device accepts HD input via:

Analogue YPbPr input, and

Digital DVI or HDMI input

HD capable inputs accept the following HD video formats:

1280x720 @ 50 and 60Hz progressive (“720p”), and

1920x1080 @ 50 and 60Hz interlaced (“1080i”)

an accoustics soloution or something, been on maplins site this afternoon and ordered a hdmi to dvi plug thingy so when that arrives picture quality should be better

Some HD ready TV's simply have a composite socket or DVI.

Usually early or cheaper TV's.

the tv was a present so i cant complain, well i can as they should have added a hdmi and thought about the digital switch over lol/.

sms, what make / model is your TV?

If it only has DVI, it's possible that it won't be HDCP compliant which means that certain HDCP-encrypted signals won't show up on your television, including sources such as blu-ray players, PS3s, etc.

as ive said above its an accoustics soloution not a well known make but its a tv.

Just as an aside - I was looking through the Virgin menu last night and it has a HD channels option for channel listings. Through this it simply says the only channel in HD is BBC HD. This cant be right can it ???

yup, virgin sucks balls.

tried out the hdmi to dvi socket and it didnt like it, stuck with the scart lead option for now.