Comments on: Repairing a Damaged HDMI Cable – Part II

By: richard li

richard li — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:33:04 +0000

i built a new home with 20ft of HDMI cable behind sheetrock and cherry paneling. i managed to pull the connector right off trying to shift my equiptment around. i purchased a 6′ HDMI 1.3 cable (Amazon, about $7)with the idea that i would simply splice the wires of a new cable onto the wires of the old one. when i cut the new cable, i found a configuration unlike that of your diagram. there are four foil wrapped groups, but two wires in each group not three. also, there are 6 other wires, one of which is uninsulated copper. that’s only 12 independent conductors for a connector that is suppose to have 19. is this right? btw, before cutting it up, i did try it on one of my DVD players and it worked okay.

By: RICHARD SANTILLAN

RICHARD SANTILLAN — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:59:33 +0000

What works on my TV is only RCA. An RCA for AUDIO and so with the VIDEO.

By: RICHARD SANTILLAN

RICHARD SANTILLAN — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:57:56 +0000

My TV has no HDMI OR a DVI, I wanted to know what numbera 1 to 19 is the righ and left channel of the audio and what number code is the for VIDEO. Pls help me im in great trouble. specified adoptors are not available in our place.
Waiting and hoping for your reply.
Thank you very much.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:35:42 +0000

Very good and informative article – thank you very much!

By: sumeet walia

sumeet walia — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:54:09 +0000

I must indeed commend you on your exhaustive details on the repairing of the hdmi cable !!!tops !!! extremely helpful !!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:48:02 +0000

Thanks ‘admin’ after reading this I can confirm that I will buying a new cable and chasing in the wall again! As this sounds easier than a repair. Its in an awkward place to work on and even though I have most of the tools required and some soldering skill the fact that I would struggle to know which wire went where & the distance issue and the potential for damage / signal loss etc. This article stopped me wasting my time. Thanks again.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:41:45 +0000

Hello, I’m not aware of any way you can just tap into the HDMI Cable and grab the audio to send it to the TV for many reasons (HDCP protection, Digital signal, etc). You’ll have to run a separate audio cable or possibly go with an adapter like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015DTUJ8?ie=UTF8&tag=lasgoli-20&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=B0015DTUJ8

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:43:57 +0000

I am going from an apple tv to a dvi on my tv, the problem is the dvi has no audio so I need to find the wires in the cable to break them out for audio, the tv has two RCA inputs for the audio and the hdmi from the apple tv has the audio built into the cable, so I just need to know what wires I can break out to get audio, the cable I have Is hdmi on one side and dvi on the other so I have no way to draw the audio off of the apple tv unit

By: admin

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:35:49 +0000

The Audioquest HDMI Cables are still being overmolded in China (to the best of my knowledge) and so I’m pretty sure you can’t use the stock AQ repair ends to fix a cable.

As far as the AQ field terminating kit, I believe AQ has not released their version (and not sure that they will). There are other field-terminating kits on the market, such as those made by Covid, etc. Most of them are made for bulk purchases though, so it may be hard to find a single end, other than the options mentioned in this article. They also are made to work with their matching bulk HDMI cable, so even if you could get one, it might not work with your cable. One more obstacle, the crimp tool required is over $100.00, so if you can’t borrow one somewhere it is cost prohibitive to go with this option.

Still the best options (from a $ point of view especially) for most seem to be the terminal kits mentioned in this article.

By: JIM

JIM — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:57:09 +0000

WHERE CAN I get audioquest repair end