The advantages of a ribbon cable: - It can be rolled up, so even a 5m cable fits into the laptop bag! - One can easily behind cupboards along embarrassed - It can be laid in a carpet - If you have to bridge a path open at the bottom, it lies down flat on the ground, if necessary, you can still fix it with tape.
But as with all cables: There is a limit to the cheap cable or as a special design like this work here. In normal TV signals no problem, but when computer signals with even higher resolutions and frame rates to be transmitted, you have to dig deeper into their pocket and use a thicker and better shielded cable!
