Monster PGL400 CVAA-10 Component Video with RCA Audio Cable Kit (10 feet)
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Customer Review: Spend you time and money elsewhere
Summary: 1 Stars
Due to the name brand and price, I was expecting a good improvement from my current setup. I was blown away with this experience. I bought several for myself and my cousin. Did not get a chance to hook up the cables right away because I had to move. After a few months, I found them and was so excited to connect these cables. That is when the nightmare began. I broke a sweat and said many, many bad words while trying to make these connectors fit into the back of my TV. I had to use more pressure to connect than what I expected. Once installed guess what? The freaking things don't work!!! I made several attempts to disconnect and connect trying to troubleshoot using both new cables. Before I forget, the darn things are even more difficult to disconnect. What the heck? Are you kidding me? I thought I was going to damage my TV. Now, I'm stuck with these pieces of stuff. Don't think I can get a refund. I haven't asked my cousin about his install experience yet. What a waste of time and money. I'm looking to complain to MC unless Amazon can help me. Buyers beware. Both cables for PS2 and XBOX did not work.Customer Review: DO NOT BUY THIS CABLE!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I cannot stress enough for you not to buy this cable. I bought this a while ago and have just got the chance to review it. Where can I start? I mean I took it out of the box and as I began to insert the plugs into my component inputs they WOULD NOT FIT!! I had to literally use all my strength and shove them in, I only was able to get 3 out of the 5 cables in before I stopped all together. I then said "I am not risking the chance of buying another $1,200 TV" and then as I was removing them (which took about 45 minutes and I was literally sweating as I kept yanking and TWISTING away) one of them came off..... ALONG WITH THE INPUT COMPONENT PLUGS THAT I WAS PUSHING IT INTO. I tried the other one thinking, "PLEASE STOP THIS TV IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR THIS TO HAPPEN" and as I was removing the other cord it pulled out ANOTHER INPUT PLUGIN!!!! Now I am missing 2 Component inputs on the back of my TV and this TV is not worth the $1,200 I spent on it. HOW DARE YOU MONSTER CABLE I TRUSTED YOU GUYS FROM BEGINNING. YOU GIVE US THIS GARBAGE AND IT COSTS $60 RETAIL? NEVER AGAIN!!!!Customer Review: Quite frankly, they don't even work
Summary: 1 Stars
What some other reviewers said is partially true, the cables dont fit well at all into my component video slots. They have no mechanism for them to hold onto and the slightest nudge pushes them out of place.
Possibly because of that, they don't even transmit a signal. No video, no audio. This is inexcusable especially after you drop 50 bones on a pair of cables that don't even fit securely. My PS2 is rather old, considering I've had it since launch, although this should be no reason for cables not to work. Either I have a bum copy, or Monster cable needs to make sure their cables fit properly. One other problem, the cables make almost no sense in their color coding, it took me the better part of an hour to figure out which goes into which. Is it not possible to just have the cables a different color band, such as the Xbox 360 standard cables?
These minor things and the fact that I get no signal make me furious for even wasting my time with this.
Customer Review: Terrible cables
Summary: 1 Stars
Normally in a review about a cable I would mention something about picture quality and sound. However, these cables never even got me that far. The cable fit nice and smooth into the back of my ps2. The problem was trying to get the inputs the back of the tv. Simply stated, they were not the right size. I tried shoving the first 2 into the component inputs and with great force they somewhat wiggled in. I started on my 3rd and then decided to stop because it wasn't worth the risk of breaking my tv. How a company like Monster can make a set of cables that do not correctly fit into a standard sized input is ridiculous. Do not buy these cables. Obviously some people have gotten them to work, but I read about two other people having this problem, and some people having a problem on the other end of the cord where the plug goes into the ps2. It is just not worth it. Buy the component cable that is approved by Sony.Customer Review: Don't waste your time or money.
Summary: 1 Stars
As many others have pointed out, the connectors on these cables are WAY TOO TIGHT. They are so tight in fact, that they will actually BREAK YOUR TV'S COMPONENT INPUTS. This is not a joke, not an exaggeration, not some crazy conspiracy, but is actual fact. I can not believe Monster let their "turbine connector" design out of R&D and into the real world, when it is so blatantly impossibly overly compressive. I had to use needle nose pliers to spread the connectors wide enough to fit. And finally, when I did get the darn things on the TV, the component video "quality" provided by these cables wasn't even better than the original s-video picture! This whole situation was a nightmare from beginning to end. Just please, don't waste your money or your time, or risk damaging your TV. Forget these overrated Monster cables and find a different manufacturer.