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So my Monoprice switch and a couple of HDMI cables arrived today. I bought that so I could have my DVD player and Blu-Ray player connected to my AVR at the same time.

It seems one of the cables is faulty, whenever the DVD player switches to output 1080p there are video sparkles and the audio crackles. It doesn’t happen with the other cables, so I can conclude it isn’t the switch or the device, so… I just had to order another cable.

It’s annoying though, it’ll cost as much to return the cable as it would to just buy another one. The money spent on shipping the first one is lost forever, so I might as well just toss it in the trash. Granted, at least it isn’t one of those ridiculously expensive (for no reason other than they can) cables from a retail store.

It later occurred to me that if the cable would pass 1080i without issue, I could just swap the one from the DVR, but then… I’m not disparately in need of the DVD player (and the Blu-Ray player will play DVDs too). I’m also not thrilled about having a malfunctioning cable in the system anywhere. The funny thing is that the DVR’s HDMI cable could suffer from the same 1080p transmission problem anyway. Thankfully the other cables all seem to be fine. My new cables will ship tomorrow, so it’ll probably be Monday before I have them. I ordered more than one, just to be ahead of the game. One of them is just 3′ long, so that might be better to use for connecting the switch to the AVR anyway, 6′ of cable is quite unnecessary for that purpose.