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My 6 foot HDMI cable quit after 14 months and I looked up why, the answer made me mad
My living room HDMI just died on a Sunday night right before the game, no picture at all, so I did some digging and fell down a rabbit hole. Turns out the copper inside these things gets work hardened from bending, and the cheap ones use thinner gauge wire that cracks way faster. I read that most HDMI cables are only rated for about 10,000 bend cycles, and just plugging and unplugging a few times a month adds up quick. So my habit of yanking the cable out at an angle every time I moved the console basically killed it early. Anyone else notice their cables die faster when they leave them plugged into a TV that gets moved around?
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wright.cole8d ago
Does the bending actually crack the wire, or just loosen the little pins inside the connector? Feels like everyone blames the cord when it could just be the plug getting sloppy over time.
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