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atoavyesterday at 8:56 AM3 repliesview on HN

One thing to realize is that especially for high resolution video cables these cheap testers can't really deliver. The way to test them is a eye diagram (see: https://incompliancemag.com/eye-diagram-part2/ ) and testers with that capsbility cost upwards of 10.000 Eurodollars.


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SAI_Peregrinusyesterday at 11:07 PM

Keysight are nice enough to provide prices on their web site for all their cheaper equipment. I priced out a setup for USB 2.0 eye diagram compliance testing on their site in this comment¹ and it's more like $40,000 than $10,000.

¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568399

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jmalickiyesterday at 9:29 AM

So you're saying there is something to audiophile grade HDMI cables?

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