Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The cable is very bad quality. I bought the 10 ft. cable. This is my setup, I have a computer with a Nvidia GTX 1060 outputting to a 4K TV. The model of TV is TCL 43S405. The cable will work at 1080P. When I set resolution to 3840x2160 I get artifacts such as colored dots and lines all over screen. This is at YUV 4:2:0. At 4:4:4 or 4:2:2 I get no picture at all. If I set TV to HDMI 2.0 I get no signal at all, I have to set it at HDMI 1.4 for cable to work. The cable is the problem, not my setup. I have a 5 year old 30 ft. HDMI cable that works with this same setup. That old cable will connect at 3840x2160 with chroma of of 4:2:2 with a perfect picture. That 30 foot cable gives me artifacts if I set it to Chroma 4:4:4 but looks perfect at 4:2:2 or 4:2:0. I also have a 3 year old high speed 6ft HDMI cable that will connect at 4:4:4. However I need a 10 ft. cable. I thought this new so called high quality cable will allow me to connect at YUV 4:4:4. Well I was wrong it won't even give a good picture at 4K at Chroma 4:2:0. When connecting a computer to a 4K TV Chroma 4:4:4 is important if you want the text to be very clear. Also 60Hz is important for games and video to look good. This cable will not go higher than 30Hz at 4K. The cable claims 4K at 60Hz, well that is wrong. The cable looked undamaged. Since it works at 4K 30Hz it may work to hook up a Blu ray player to a 4K TV. So this junky cable will work for some peoples setup. However if you want 4K at 4:4:4 you will need a different cable. The reason I give one star is because cable is rated at YUV 4:4:4 at 4K 60 Hz which is not true. So if your trying to connect a computer to a 4K monitor or TV don't buy this cable. In the past just about any HDMI cable would work for most peoples setup for everything was 1080P. Now that people are using 4K tvs the bandwidth required is much greater. So manufactures now will actually have to start being more honest with their claims. If they claim a cable is 18Gbps and it is not, people will return the cable. In the past HDMI cable manufacturers could claim anything about their cables because everything was 1080P and did not require very much bandwidth. There was no way to prove that the cable specs were inaccurate because at 1080P almost any cable will work. But things are different now, for if you buy a 4K Apple TV and it doesn't have a true 18Gbps cable your device simply will not work when connecting to 4K TV. In a few years when everyone's devices are all 4K, manufactures will be forced to be honest with their cable spec claims. I have recently bought several 10 ft. HDMI cables from different manufactures and none of them would connect at 4:4:4 except for one company. I find it truly amazing that I had to try so many so called 18Gbps HDMI cables before I found one that would connect without giving me a black screen at Chroma 4:4:4. So much of my time was wasted trying to figure out why my computer would not connect to TV properly. Making Cables is a multi billion dollar industry they should be more honest. This is because almost every TV, Blu ray player, Cable box, Receiver, Apple TV, etc. requires a cable. And it is frustrating when you hook up something and it doesn't work. If you hook up a new device and it doesn't work you would just assume the device is defective, and not the HDMI cable.