Are HDMI cables hot swapable?


Anyone have a definitive answer on this?
pokey77
Always power-off gear. Blew an output stage on a idle DAC just pulling an RCA cable.
In the past a hdmi cart of my Meridian800 Daxv4 went on fire. It was fully distroyed. Connect hdmi cables when all devices are off. It never can go wrong!
I have "hot swapped" repeatedly without any incident. I swap my video side HDMI back and forth between my Oppo BDP-105 and Classe SSP-800.
I don't do it, because my cable box will loose its ability to relay the signal properly, and will just have a raster, until I pull the plug and reboot the box.