Monster MC 1000HD-2M Ultra-High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (2 meters)
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Customer Review: Just a terrible example of ripping off customers.
Summary: 1 Stars
Very recently, I purchased a television at Best Buy. They don't sell the $5 and $10 HDMI cables you find at Fry's or on Amazon, so I went ahead and bought this cable.
I thought I wouldn't mind, after all I spent thousands on the TV, but it kept nagging me. So I bought a $2 HDMI cable from Amazon (search for HDMI and you'll see a few brands). My TV has twin HDMI inputs, so I hooked up this cable and the Monster cable, put on Casino Royale, and flipped between the cables to see what the difference was.
There was absolutely no difference. None at all. I figured the picture would be slightly sharper or the colors cleaner, but you could put a gun to my head and I wouldn't be able to tell you which was which.
And I googled HDMI and learned that if your video and audio signals work at all, then the signal is being carried correctly. There is no middle ground with HDMI. Better cables do not incrementally improve picture quality! Why? Because the HDMI is digital, and it's very difficult to distort a 1 into a 0. In fact, it's technically impossible without total signal distortion or failure. Failure in signal is caused by processors or cables that are too long. Or more likely, misconfigured systems. With digital signals, the cables have a much easier job. Imagine if you had to read a book from 100 yards away? That's analog. Imagine reading morse code from a flashlight at 100yards away (and you know morse cose)? That's digital.
So by buying this cable, you are insuring yourself that if your cable length is at the extreme, or if your house gets hit by an EMP, that this monster cable will shield that digital signal quite a bit better than the cheap cable. Why not pay $2 and see if that kind of insurance is necessary? After all, if the $2 cable works, it's not going to get better.
It's repulsive that Best Buy only sells extremely expensive cables. I'm glad Amazon gives me the choice. Don't be naive! Give the cheap cable a try! One word of caution: if you require HDMI 1.3a, get a compatible cable. For $15 bucks, you're still saving a lot of money. You can check your manuals to see if your audio quality is so high that you need the 1.3a cables. Either way, there's no reason to get this horribly overpriced cable.
The money you save can go into systems that transcode digital signals better. That's where the real improvement in picture and audio is to be found!
Customer Review: Monster Should Be Ashamed
Summary: 1 Stars
If you've read any of the lower rated reviews for this product, I'm sure you'll find similar posts as mine, but I felt compelled to chime in because my cousin was recently "convinced" by his local Best Buy sales associate("best buy"...there's an oxymoron) to purchase some Monster cables for his new TV and PS3. Sadly, I didn't find out until after the fact and had to spend a considerable amount of time trying to convince him of the fact that he was scammed and ripped off. I seriously don't know how these guys sleep at night knowing that there cover has and continues to be blown and yet they still persist in pushing their "snake oil" to people. I guess there conscience is preserved so long as people hand over their money willingly.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A HIGHER QUALITY HDMI CABLE...ONLY HIGHER PRICES.
There is incredibly compelling evidence that proves Monster and any other over priced HDMI Cable brand is just that...overpriced. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)cables involve a digital signal that is either there or not. There is no degredation in the signal strength. Therefore, as long as it is a true HDMI cable, it will work just as good as the next. With Monster, what you get are some REALLY good looking cables...so as long as you're willing to shell out the 900% - 1000% cost difference for aesthetics than so be it.
Anyway, don't take my word on this alone. Just google "HDMI Myths". Check out what reputable organizations like CNET, Popular Mechanics and PC World have to say about the issue. I was planning on providing links but in reviewing the guidelines, I discovered that I'm not allowed to do that.
Amazon should really offer something lower than a 1 star rating...perhpas some red flag alert that indicates an item not even worth rating because of situations like this. Either that or do multiple categories for ratings of a single product (i.e. cost, performance, quality, etc). Under this rating system I'd easily give Monster 5 stars for quality and performance but a negative star for cost. Equally, I'd give 5 stars across the board for the 2 meter HDMI cable I convinced my cousin to buy at Home Depot for $15 after finally returning his Monster cables(wanted to provide a direct link to the product but can't...it's available on their website though).
Please don't let these guys continue to take people's money. Get educated and educate others.
Customer Review: For those that are throwing money away... throw some my direction.
Summary: 1 Stars
Following my review here is the HDMI spec currently which supports the full color depth..notice the bandwidth. Therefore... any cable that you buy that says HDMI 1.3 Category 2 can do *gasp* 10.2 Gbit/s (340MHz) bandwidth. Amazon here has plenty for less than 1 tenth of this and a quick search at my favorite place to buy cables would let me buy $30 for the price of one of these.
Also, money does not equal quality when it comes to cables. I got some high quality Monster cables in a set a number of years ago (big time clearance and it was all the store carried and I wanted it that day). The first time I went to move three of the RCA ends on 2 different style cable stayed inside my amp when I pulled them straight back. I have used probably 100 different RCA, digital coax, and component video cables and Monster brand are the only ones I've ever had break.
So again, if you like paying $100 for something the company makes for $5, I'd rather you just send me the $95 if you really don't need it that bad. I have 6 HDMI cables hooked up right now... so at a savings of $95 per cable that is $570...which payed for my PS3 and an extra game. When it comes to digital... it just plain does not matter.
HDMI 1.3
Released June 22, 2006.[12][13][76]
* Increases single-link bandwidth to 340 MHz (10.2 Gbit/s)
* Optionally supports Deep Color with 30-bit, 36-bit, and 48-bit xvYCC, sRGB, or YCbCr compared to 24-bit sRGB or YCbCr in previous HDMI versions.
* Incorporates automatic audio syncing (Audio video sync) capability.
* Optionally supports output of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio streams for external decoding by AV receivers.[77] TrueHD and DTS-HD are lossless audio codec formats used on Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. If the disc player can decode these streams into uncompressed audio, then HDMI 1.3 is not necessary, as all versions of HDMI can transport uncompressed audio.
* Cable Categories 1 and 2 defined. Category 1 cable is tested up to 74.25 MHz while Category 2 cable is tested up to 340 MHz.
* Availability of a new Type C mini-connector for portable devices.[39][78]
Customer Review: Does What It Should, at Ten Times The Price
Summary: 1 Stars
Monster's HDMI cables (as well as most Monster products) do exactly what they should do, and they do it exceptionally well. However, there is a caveat to the Monster HDMI cable: You pay ten times as much for their cable as you should be.
The problem is, this one-hundred thirty dollar cable will not do anything better than a ten dollar cable will. To put it another way, a cable one-tenth of the price of Monster's cable will perform exactly as well as the Monster cable. And yes, there are HDMI cables that can be had for one-tenth the price of this Monster cable. See monoprice dot com, and save your money.
Also, do not believe the store reps and companies who try to sell you these outrageously priced cables: they will not improve your listening or viewing experience one bit. Also, there are a lot of good reviews for this Monster cable. As well there should be, because the cable does perform well. But if an informed customer wrote a review about this Monster cable its cost, and wrote a review with the knowledge that the Monster cable performs only as well as a cable that it costs 10x more than, you would get a 1 star review for the Monster. Which is what you get here.
I don't like seeing people get ripped off by what I see as an attempt to take advantage of unaware customers. So I posted this review, and I hope you will not by these grossly overpriced Monster cables, unless of course you need to own something with the name "Monster" on it to impress people who think that Monster is better than other cables simply because they rip you off with their pricing!
Customer Review: monster hdmi 1000hd
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok,I have used this cable my self and just bought another cable from a seller here on amazon for 23.00 usd.at 23 dollars people would be fools not to buy.look under used cables they are actually new.but amazon will not allow them to sell as new at there pricing.And as far a other saying hdmi is hdmi are fools.there are 4 revisions to hdmi cables so far.hdmi,hdmi 1.3a,hdmi 1.3b,hmdi 1.3c.If you are like me a home theater audiophile.you will need this cable.I have a denon dts-hd,dolby hd reciever.the cheap cables would allow sound encoded in hd but reciever sounded muted.wasnt very loud.then i put this cable in a wow what a difference.I tryed 3 other hdmi cables i had laying around same results.think about it..you spent 300-1000 for a good receiver,200-500 for a good blu-ray player but you wont spend 23 dollars to buy a hdmi monster cable?It is a monster cable,hence it will work perfectly with nice tight connections and extremely well built design.what others dont tell you is that the cheap cables can come apart and connections may be loose.SO WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THE CHANCE??don't be fooled buy other reviewers a cheap cable is not as good I KNOW THIS FROM TRIAL AND ERRROR.however do not pay 100+ dollars for this cable that is just foolish.then yes you are getting ripped off.ANOTHER QUESTION I HAVE TO OTHERS OUT THERE.IF YOU HAVE A SAMSUNG TV AND WHEN YOU TURN IT ON THEN POWER UP YOUR DVR OR DVD BLU-RAY PLAYER AND SOUND DOESNT WORK UNTIL YOU RESTART YOUR TV IT IS NOT YOUR TV IT IS YOUR HDMI CABLE.LOOSE FITTING HDMI CABLE TO BACK OF TV CAUSES THIS.BUY THIS CABLE AND PROBLEM IS RESOLVED.