HDMI cables are
digital.
Gold plated with unicorn blood running through its copper cables will do no better then a rusty coat hanger with 2 hdmi heads. Sure, the construction may be better but how often will you move that cable? Ngear HDMI cables are hella good already with flexi-sleeving on top of it, as well as your super useless gold-plating.
Analog cables are the ones I'd be worried about, with speaker wires & component videos. However, specs of the cables don't even matter until you start going super high end, with Tannoy BRM's, Paradigm's or B&W. The average user could not care less about what impedance the copper material carries, or if it can support 3000W of pure bass. It just doesn't matter to them as long as sound comes out.
In the end, all cables are copper or alloy with some sort of super "uber" coating of whatever the hell you want to call it.
(I'm surprised to find another user so passionate about electronics on this forum
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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline
VOD titles on Shaw are 1080P. Most Primetime TV shows on Shaw's VOD are also available in 1080P.
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It's upscaled 720p/1080i in most areas, since their infrastructure hasn't been upgraded since the beginning of time. Shaw blew out the node in our area when they decided to "upgrade" us to the new 100/150mbit lines (and "real 1080P VoD), the thing just couldn't take the super increased bandwidth (especially when the area is full of hungry pirating teenagers!)