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February 9, 2009
An HDMI Cable with a Grip
After a few stumbles at the start HDMI cables are now common place on many home theater/media room DVD players (both standard and BluRay), satellite and cable boxes, AV receivers and televisions. It has made installations so much easier - just one connection is needed for audio and video. 
But the HDMI cable, which looks a little like a USB cable (they are not interchangeable) sometimes falls out the socket on the back of equipment. This has happened to me a few times when when the equipment is installed in a piece of furniture where you need to rotate the equipment to make the connections on the back of all of the equipment. When I rotated the equipment back to their normal position, another cable or a speaker wire snagged an HDMI cable and pulled it out of its socket.
This problem doesn't happen everyday, but I have talked with a few installers and it does happened more often than you would think. A company that is new to me - PPC - introduced an HDMI cable at last months CES that, they claim, has 3 times the resistance to being pulled out as a standard cable. They sent me a sample and the cable does have significantly more grip than any of the other cables that I had on hand. And it is a well made cable.
It has a simple locking mechanism on the top of the connector that grips the socket. To release the cable from the socket, just press the raised button on top to release it. Very clever.
PPC HDMI cables are available in three lengths:
- 3 feet - $48.99
- 6 feet - $59.99
- 12 feet - 72.99
For more information, go to PPC. Have you had problems with an HDMI cable falling out of its socket?
Posted by Bob Gatton at February 9, 2009 8:51 AM
