I Spent a THOUSAND Dollars on HDMI Cables.. for Science. Linus Tech Tips

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Holy crap. This is the $16K cable tester they used.

https://www.totalphase.com/products/adv ... tester-v2/
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How could he not do Monster?
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Jesus...that was going to be my question: what did they use for a testing machine or software.
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Linus just released a video on testing a variety of DisplayPort cables. Overall, the results are more consistently good, as long as you avoid long cables.

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