Mediabridge Ultra Series - High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet - (6 Feet) - Category 2 Certified - Supports 3D & Audio Return Channel [Latest HDMI Version Available]
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Customer Review: The best HDMI cables you can buy, at amazing prices
Summary: 5 Stars
So far I have bought a total of four HDMI cables, in lengths ranging from 3' to 15'. I bought the 3' cable first. It was made by Philips and sold by the most gigantic of all gigantic discount Marts. It worked fine, and it would have been long enough except it was so stiff I could never straighten it out completely. I returned it.
I did some research on Amazon and found these Mediabridge cables with astounding user ratings and amazingly reasonable prices. Not the sub-dollar junk you can also find here, but less than one third the big-box price of the Philips cables in equivalent lengths. I bought two of the 6' cables to connect my two 1080p upconverting DVD players (a Sony 5-disc changer and a Philips region-free single-disc for playing foreign DVDs) to my wonderful (and cheap) AOC HDTV.
I was a little reluctant to buy 6' cables because I only really needed 3', and I know cable length can be tricky with very high-speed signals, but since the Philips 3' wasn't actually usable to that length, and I didn't want to have to return these, I ordered 6'. They work like a dream. They're as flexible as cooked spaghetti and transmit the signals without a single glitch.
Then I bought a new HP laptop with an HDMI output, but to work comfortably the cable had to be longer than 6'. I figured I'd go all the way and order the 15', since it's only marginally more expensive and would allow me to use the HDTV easily for watching streaming movies from Netflix. This cable also works like a dream.
My TV only has two HDMI inputs, so I do a fair amount of plugging and unplugging, with no signs of reliability problems so far. I highly recommend these Mediabridge HDMI cables--in any length--to anybody needing one.
I'm also very impressed with Mediabridge itself. Each cable comes very nicely packaged individually in a sturdy corrugated box, which is put into a larger box for shipping, and they ship quickly directly to the customer. What a relief not to have to saw through a hard plastic shell to get the product out! It's an impressive company. PLUS, they're an American company, and although I don't know if they manufacture the cables domestically, they're unafraid to print their New Jersey street address right on the box.
Customer Review: Performed well in a high-demand application.
Summary: 4 Stars
Given the wide price disparity, and multiple performance standards for HDMI cables, buying these can seem a little dicey. I went to http://www.hdmi.org/learningcenter and decided I need the fastest HDMI standard -- HDMI 1.3 -- and this cord provides that. I also learned there was no difference to the consumer between 1.3a and 1.3b.
VIDEO:
I'm using this cable with a 1080p LCD TV which runs at 120mhz (images per second). At the time of this writing that's supposed to be the most demand you can put on an HDMI cable. For those who think brands might make a difference, it's a 46" Sony Bravia W-series LCD. My kid's PS3 gaming system (our Blu-Ray player) runs through this HDMI cable to the TV. For my applications it's been absolutely flawless. The video is breath-taking in blu-ray with none of the lines, artifacts, pixelation, etc. that a weak HDMI cable is supposed to 'cause.
AUDIO:
I'm no audiophile but the sound seems to survive the journey nicely too. I run an optical cable from the TV to a separate surround sound system. So the sound goes from PS3 ==> HDTV ==> home theater system. The sound survives both the HDMI cable and the toslink optical cable nicely. We're not talking a $3,000 sound system here (so your results might vary) but with something a couple of steps up from your average home theater in a box the surround sound is crisp enough that the first few weeks we kept turning around mistakenly thinking someone new had entered the house.
GAMING:
My kid claims the ability to whirl around and rapidly pick up the image on screen has improved his rankings in the gaming world. The cable isn't a bottle neck and it still delivers a good signal when he has the sensitivity turned up high.
It took about 3-days to process the order, so I was glad I spent the extra money on 2-day delivery to get it by Christmas.
Hope that helps! I know it's hard to let yourself go "cheap" when you spent so much on the TV. I found this Mediabridge Cable to perform as represented and to be a true bargain.
.... now if we can just peel ourselves away from the new TV.
Customer Review: Mediabridge Ultra Series - High Speed HDMI Cable With Ethernet
Summary: 4 Stars
December 29, 2010: Your online product recommendation for me to use with my new Pioneer A/V Receiver VSX-1020K states:
"Mediabridge Ultra Series - High Speed HDMI Cable With Ethernet - Category 2 Certified - Supports 3D & Audio Return Channel - (6 Feet)"
I have set up and configured my new VSX-1020K. It is performing well. I used 6 Mediabridge HDMI cables for my various stereo media devices as recommended and sold to me by Amazon to eliminate Ethernet cables and to take advantage of the network connection capability in the HDMI cables that Amazon recommended. The Mediabridge HDMI cables are performing well. I expected to use an HDMI-cable-with-Ethernet-support to connect each of my stereo media components to the Pioneer A/V receiver AND to my network. Instead, I also had to add an Ethernet cable for each network-connected component.
Pioneer Tech Support advises me that the HDMI ports in the VSX-1020K do NOT support Ethernet connections to network-connected devices such as my Western Digital Live Media Hub or my Vizio Blu-Ray DVD player with network support. Does any one really know what is or is not the case here?
In fact, the HDMI v 1.4 protocol is so vague that neither Pioneer nor Mediabridge cable company can tell me what devices can or cannot use these HDMI-Ethernet Support cables to share an Ethernet connection on a home network.
My primary complaint is with Amazon.com in this order due to the lack of an accurate and complete product listing for the Pioneer VSX-1020K and other HDMI/Ethernet-supported devices. The description section for such devices should indicate what HDMI features are supported and not just list them as "HDMI 1.4".
This is misleading or false advertising, in my view. I could have purchased other HDMI cables for my home media devices. I could have purchased another A/V receiver with the Ethernet networking capabilities that Amazon claims for the VSX-1020-K.
Amazon should help me and other customers to find ways to resolve my HDMI/Ethernet connection problem.
Customer Review: Best HDMI cable on the market!
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay okay. maybe not "the best" but bang for your buck you can't beat Media Bridge. I've been using these cables now for 2 years and also been using/recommending them to friends, family and people I've helped set up blu-ray players, HDTV's etc. $10 for a cable with high quality wrapping, gold plated connectors, 6ft length and Cat 2 certification. Look up other 'name brands' and you could end up paying $50-$120 for a cable like this. Each cable comes in its own box, wrapped with both connectors covered by a plastic connector to avoid damage.
I've not had a single failed cable yet from Media Bridge, and even if one does fail.. at $10 it is a cheap replacement. DO NOT BE FOOLED by expensive HDMI cables. HDMI cables are not like your older component/composite/SVideo cables. Those cables transmit "analog" signals. In other words think of a sound wave. That is your signal. Air distorts the signal so why not nitrogen infuse the cable for less corrosion and resistance. All that fancy stuff works on those cables since it helps prevent signal degradation
HDMI cables work in "digital" that means 1's and 0's while you still transmit a "signal" the HDMI line carries it as 0's and 1's to the source by reading the signal it got from either your cable line or satellite etc. a $1000 cable vs a $1 cable won't make any difference in your signal since they both get the same identical signal. You are just paying for "name" and "flair" a $150 cable can fail just as fast or easy as a $1 cable.
As I said earlier, I've yet to have a failed cable from Media Bridge or had someone come back to me saying the cable failed. Excellent product at an excellent price. Currently I use 1 cable for my Samsung 40in 1080p TV 1 cable for a 46in Sharp 1080p TV and 1 cable for a PS3 and it detects as 1080p no problem. I've also tested these out with the 360(friend has a 360) and his Sony TV gets 1080p perfect picture and his 360 also gets 1080p on them. He was upset too because he spent $80 on a cable and the Media Bridge was just as good
Customer Review: Cables failing in two completely different a/v setups
Summary: 1 Stars
I've ordered a total of 7 of the 6' mediabridge ultra hdmi cables and used them in two different a/v setups (though 3 are spares). While the cables worked fine for the first couple of months (or less), in "both" a/v setups I began to experience the same problem: the screen would go black for ~5-10 seconds every now and then. Some times, it would happen three times in 1 minute. It always seems to happen when at a crucial point in a sports game or the climax of a movie - as you can imagine it's very annoying.
The issue has nothing to do with the cable service (as my DVR box records the channel perfectly fine and I can rewind and watch the 10 seconds I missed). Also, the two a/v setups have 2 different cable providers located in two different regions in the US.
The cables were purchased on three separate dates (two orders in June and one in September) so the problem cannot be attributed to a bad production run. While the cables ordered in June have a slightly different design (no red stripe), they appear to be the same cable with the same product # and markings on the cable. One a/v installation is very basic - Digital DVR cable box -> LG LED LCD TV (thus using one hdmi cable). The other setup is more complex (three hdmi cables): Digital Cable Box, Onkyo TX-SR507 A/V Receiver, LG Blu-ray player, Toshiba LCD TV. All a/v components used in both systems are less than 1 year old.
I have replaced all 4 cables with Blue Jeans Cable - BJC Series-F2 cables (not from amazon) which were highly recommended in a popular a/v forum. The BJC cables were only slightly more expensive but you can also order the exact length you need from 1ft to 25ft. For comparison, the BJC 4 foot cable is [...] and probably higher quality than the 4 foot Monster HDMI cable selling on amazon for [...]. If you don't want to get scammed by monster and still want a quality cable the BJC cable may be a much better choice than these rebranded chinese cables sold on amazon.