Monster PGL400 CVAA-10 Component Video with RCA Audio Cable Kit (10 feet)
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Customer Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought this cable for my ps2 and my new LCD TV and the Quality change a LOT!!! I recomended 100%Customer Review: very good picture
Summary: 5 Stars
the cable was easy to connect and once i turned on the PS2 i noticed a much crispier pictureCustomer Review: Great help!
Summary: 5 Stars
Lets me know when my tires need air just by the color. Very useful for a busy mom of two.Customer Review: Don't break your TV, break the cable!
Summary: 4 Stars
Here are the three main points of my review:
1. As of May 1, 2008, you can buy this item at circuitcitydotcom for $8.96 not including tax or shipping.
2. Since this item does not include a digital audio cable, if you want digital sound, you can buy the Monster THX 1000 digital audio cable at circuitcitydotcom for $8.39 not including tax or shipping.
3. Most importantly, if you don't want to ruin the input ports on your expensive flat screen TV make the following modification to your cable: take some needle nose pliers and bend outwards the teeth around the output tip. This will allow them to fit around the TV input ports. I'd rather ruin a $9 cable then a $2100 TV.
Read on for more details about my fascinating discoveries!
So I read all the reviews for this item before buying it online at circuitcitydotcom yesterday, April 30, 2008. I paid $8.96 plus tax. Since this doesn't come with a digital audio cable, I found one, the Monster THX 1000, ULTI1000FO4, at circuitcitydotcom for $8.39. For both, I paid $22.18 including tax and shipping.
I chose in-store pickup for the component video cable. I just got done installing the PS2 component video cable into my brand new Sony Bravia KDL-40XBR4 and there is a noticeable improvement above the composite cable that came with the PS2. The graphics are clear and sharp. I'm glad that I bought this cable and hope you do too. It helped take advantage of my new TV's capabilities.
After reading the reviews about people ruining their input ports and TV's, I was careful not to force the plugs into the ports. I'm not sure why anyone would use excessive force when working with expensive electronics. Obviously there is something incredibly wrong if it takes fifteen minutes, let alone an hour, to install five plugs. My installation took less than 10 minutes.
For me, the PS2 end of the cable fit perfectly, even better than the Sony supplied composite cable. I then tried to install one plug into the TV and it didn't go in easily. I stopped immediately! I went to grab some needle-nose pliers and proceeded to bend the teeth surrounding the plug. I was careful but some of the teeth broke off. This actually was okay.
In the end, after breaking off one or two teeth from each plug, it made the plug fit into the port like butter. You don't need to bend the teeth very far to make the plug fit but it doesn't take much to break them off completely. So if your plugs don't fit, don't be afraid of breaking off several teeth while trying to bend them outwards. Except, it's probably a good idea not to break off all or most of teeth. The plug would then have little or no support and might fall out of the input port.
I'm sorry for all the people who paid close to $60 for this and had problems. I hope people who read this review will be able to save money by buying the parts the same way I did.
Customer Review: PS2 Monster Cable
Summary: 4 Stars
I decided to upgrade my entertainment center to component and chose this cable for the PS2 slim. This cable is of high quality though the TV connection is a bit tight and there could be a few improvements to the color coding for the cables however it wasn't to hard to match up CB to Blue, CR to Red, and Y to Green with the two remaining audio cables just being plugged in with the hopes that right is not left and left is not right though for the moment it wouldn't matter much if it was wrong. To prevent damage once I couldn't get the cables in without applying excessive force I stopped as I later plan to hook everything up through the Universal Joytech AV CONTROL CTR S240 for a nice sleek look which should work out nicely with the Steren 254-603IV HDTV 3 Component Video Cables or at least I hope. The price tag was a bit much at $60 seeing as I could have bought another PS2 for $20 bucks more though looking through the sellers I found it for $20 which made it a decent upgrade. The color looks nice though it doesn't perform miracles it just makes it look a bit better. Overall I can't give it a perfect 5 as it could be improved by making the connection a bit more flexible to help handle extreme tight fits and using the standard color system for the cables though the cable is heavy, has a lot of hyped features, and works.