different guage hdmi's

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Originally Posted by littlesturgeonguy

so im looking at monoprice to order an hdmi cable and there is too much to choose from. they also have different guages 24 and 28 guage hdmi's what does a guy go with 24? go with the larger guage?

sorry i see i probably posted this in the wrong area.

Thicker cables are less flexible and can put a lot of stress on your receiver's or player's HDMI input/output. If you are not careful, you can damage them. This actually happended to me. When I was adjusting my projector, the 30 ft in-wall (very thick) Monoprice HDMI cable popped right out of the projector and damaged the pins on the projector's HDMI input. I had to send it to the manaufacturer to have it fixed. I replaced it with a thinner and more flexible cable from another manufacturer and it works perfectly. For normal (short distance) use, buy the thinner cable.