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They either work or they don’t work.

Kinda like the HDMI cables the electronics and tech stores try to sell you for $30 + when you can get the same cable for between $3 and $10 depending on the length............

I have a box filled with "gold plated" cables and a spool of monster cable that I probably spent hundreds of dollars needlessly on when I was into high end stereo systems. What a scam that was.............

Well, digital is different than analog.

There can be minor benefit to better wires, contacts, or media, with analog. With digital, assuming the system has even elementary consideration for data checking, the system either works, or it doesn't. You can have some digital processes that don't care about what is discarded, but for software, it has to be programmed that way. For output from digital to not be checked at a low level is rare. That is how we can have any hope our backup tapes and CDs actually stored our data. If the data is corrupt, it is invariably due to the media. Archival media costs more, but you can keep data “accurate” for a hundred years with it. Otherwise, it starts to degrade within 3-5 years.

27 posted on 04/22/2016 4:48:01 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")