$119 HDMI Cable Has a Built-In Anti-Aliasing Chip to Remove Jaggies

Considering the audio/videophools pay 10x that for cables that do absolutely NOTHING (and advertise such nonsense as being 'directional'), a cable that actually has active circuitry that can work to improve the signal quality seems like a bargain. Almost too cheap...
 
AMD should and could make a APU compute stick type device something about the size of a small switch/router basically that sits inline and does this much much better.
 
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Flogger23m said:
SMAA doesn't really work all that great in most games. No AA clears all jaggies. 1080, even with the best AA, always looks a bit jaggy. 1440P notably reduces it though, and I find some AA + 1440 clears them up fairly well. But if this cable more or less removes them completely, that is certainly a nice upgrade.
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No, the cable doesn't. It's just another shader based AA method, so it works well on edges with a lot of contrast and is worthless on single-pixel aliasing.

As for no AA clearing all jaggies, I suspect you've never been exposed to quality AA to say something like that. Not that I blame you, since the industry has essentially been pushing graphics as hard as it can, while making actual image quality a completely secondary concern. 4x4 SSAA or 8x SGSSAA clears up damn near everything. I'm with you on SMAA however. It never clears up the worst problem areas, like chain link fences, wires in the distance, etc.
 
Well, maybe I'm a sucker but I went ahead and got one. It does seem to work, particularly well for originally low res sources like PS1, PS2, PS3 and Wii games. Not only are jaggies improved but shimmering is lessened when in action. I could not detect much in terms of blurring of the textures or text and also couldn't detect any lag. Even 2D games appear to have a subtle filter that doesn't blur. Couldn't find much benefit with 1080p games like on the PS4 or ONE. Given I still play a lot of older games, I find it to be worth it since it does make playing these games more enjoyable. But for anybody else, I suppose it is a waste of money. Perhaps the Switch is a current system that would benefit from the cable. I can post pictures if any body is interested but I'd have to take them with my camera since I don't have a way of doing HDMI screen capture.
 
Evil said:
Imagine playing Gran Turismo games on a old PS2 via this HDMI cable or the Gran Turismo game that was on the PS3 and this cable has more value to it's user. Definitely not for most PC gaming purists but for console gamers that use older game consoles with their beloved older games.
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My PS2 doesn't have HDMI! PS3 you mean?

egads said:
Well, maybe I'm a sucker but I went ahead and got one. It does seem to work, particularly well for originally low res sources like PS1, PS2, PS3 and Wii games. Not only are jaggies improved but shimmering is lessened when in action. I could not detect much in terms of blurring of the textures or text and also couldn't detect any lag. Even 2D games appear to have a subtle filter that doesn't blur. Couldn't find much benefit with 1080p games like on the PS4 or ONE. Given I still play a lot of older games, I find it to be worth it since it does make playing these games more enjoyable. But for anybody else, I suppose it is a waste of money. Perhaps the Switch is a current system that would benefit from the cable. I can post pictures if any body is interested but I'd have to take them with my camera since I don't have a way of doing HDMI screen capture.
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How are you cleaning up PS1/2/etc that don't have HDMI? Is it a pass through from some media controller?
 
Megaslug said:
a cable that actually has active circuitry that can work to improve the signal quality seems like a bargain
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yeah that hardware chip inside the cable thats applying an edge-detect blur filter is really improving the signal quality.

protip: digital cables either transmit the exact 0's & 1's that your console/gpu outputs, or theres a black screen. its literally impossible to change the signal quality over DVI/HDMI/DP. i know wat you meant, but the cable is a very expensive blur filter & some copper that costs a few dollars to manufacture.

this existing at all isnt altogether surprising, but is disappointingly absurd regardless. save yourself a hundred bucks & smear a thin layer of vaseline onto your television...or burn a cnote for no reason. a fool & his $$$ etc etc
 
N4CR said:
My PS2 doesn't have HDMI! PS3 you mean?


How are you cleaning up PS1/2/etc that don't have HDMI? Is it a pass through from some media controller?
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For those that I had the disc, I use my PS3 that has backward compatibility. But many can be purchased digitally and downloaded onto the PS3 and PS4 depending on the title. You just need to turn the built in up scaler on the console off to display the title in native resolution and let the cable do its work.
 
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