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Originally Posted by Manic!
Blue jeans sells 2 types of HDFMI cabl. The Tartan brand that is 100% Chinese and there Blue jeans brand. The Blue Jeans brand has the bulk cable made by Belden in the US then the rollls of cable are shipped to China to make the cable, I doubt there is a difference in the 2 cables they sell. Belden also makes HDMI cables. They are 100% Chinese. All cables haver to be certified by the HDMI coalition and have to meet there standards.
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It's been a while since I purchased cables from them but I did not know they sell economy Tartan brand now (I just looked them up on the Blue Jeans site when you mentioned it). At the time when I gotten mine, they only sold the two Belden types; now with Tartan, a total of 4 (not counting the clearance one for the 5th).
Tartan would be the true 100% made Chinese while the more expensive Belden as not quite as you stated above, since I'm also aware of this as well.
Overall for your typical cable runs, Tartan will work fine, a great alternative. The difference between Belden and Tartan will show if you're going to do more of a distance run as you notice the longest run available to select on Belden is greater than the Tartan at similar gauges. Further support would be finding out the Tartan specs and comparing as well.
I would say there would be no harm going with either of these two brands; it's more of a personal preference then.