LudwigVonSneider

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

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Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

I'd love to see what non - colorspace stomped footage looked like, bc imao what went to the youtube vid looked like trash. compressing the colorspace would naturally exaggerate whatever unsharp mask they apply along with making colors oversaturated, so I fully believe it looked better in person than what got captured. That said, I'd still like to see a reupload with corrected capture settings.

Gonna have to agree with @LudwigVonSneider on this.
In a lot of the tests the image was just softer and had ringing artifacts. Sure it got rid of some aliasing, but I don't think it's worth the trade-off (lower sharpness and more ringing).
 
Can someone from LTT tell me which video player you used for this test?
I would also love if you could upload the original footage and maybe explain how you captured the video, just so that it's easier to compare and confirm the findings.
 
By the way, good video. I might not agree with your conclusion, and I find it a bit lacking on the explanation, but it's good to see that you put in a lot of time and effort to test this product.

I actually agree with this above post, even after watching the comparisons in 4k.
 
Additional notes:
I literally cringed harder when I see this.
That screenshot perfectly shows how mCable Gaming Edition processes: it just interpolates the image, sharpens the image to a degree that I consider unacceptable, slightly saturates the colours, and increases the contrast to the point that it does crush blacks too much. It does not look like "anti aliasing" to me.
Honestly it just looks more horrible using mCable GE than just straight-up HDMI cable.
 
I encourage you to just save $150 for a better-performing graphics card than just wasting it on a cable that processes the image to crap levels.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

Imo it makes it look worse.
It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place.
 

 
If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process.
The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights.
Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner.
 
 

 
In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine.
This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well.
I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured.
 
 

 
Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character.
The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it.
The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar.
 
 

 
The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess.
 
Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv.
 
You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released.
Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image.
Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites.
(I'm one of the latter ones)
 
I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.