6ft PTC Premium Gold Series Elegant Dual Tone HDMI Cable, Supports Deep Color
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Customer Review: Better than Mammoth Cable
Summary: 5 Stars
Get these cheap cables. They are as good as expensive Monster cables -- better actually. Why? HDMI is a digital-signal only cable. There is no analog signal to get religious about. Bits is bits. A Monster zero is no more zeroish than a four-dollar cable's zero. Ditto for ones. Here's some fun facts. The HDMI 1.3 spec tells us that all HDMI cables have to be certified as meeting the standard in order to use the HDMI name. HDMI 1.3 runs a 10.2 Gbps (gigabits per second). For perspective, this is 21 times faster than USB 2.0 at 480 Mbps. Fast.
The standard was cleverly designed to be robust, reliable, efficient (low power), high capacity, and LOW COST to manufacture. The HDMI cable contains 4 high-speed low-power differential-signal shielded connections -- in addition to 5 volt power and some low-speed digital signals for devices to talk back and forth to each other. Three of the high-speed connections carry respectively the red, green, and blue uncompressed video bitstreams. The fourth carries a synchronous clock, which cunningly allows the receiving chip to economically recover the bits in the other 3 channels at this extreme speed. Uncompressed audio is also sent (on a time slice basis) over the 3 video channels. Whereas the 1.3 spec supports 10.2 Gbps, your BluRay player rarely exceeds 5 Gbps -- depending on content such as color depth and the number of audio channels. There's plenty of excess capacity in your cheap cable. (Read the FAQ and white papers at HDMI dot ORG for more.)
So why is this dinky cable better than an expensive one? The Expensive Brands have wide-diameter cables with unnecessarily long connectors. This must give the appearance of being totally awesome. However, the wires INSIDE are the same size and layout as for any other HDMI cable. They must be in order to match electrical capacitance, impedance and shielding parameters required conform to the 10.2 Gbps spec. But, importantly, this bulky bloated thickness puts weight and tension on the connectors of your expensive LCD TV and BluRay player and other equip. Why would you want to put mechanical stress on these sockets? Bad idea. And their bits are not better bits: just 0s and 1s. I have these cables. They work.
Customer Review: Great Cable
Summary: 5 Stars
I worked in home theater for two years and was forced to really push the Monster cables out. What people don't realize is how much overly priced these cables are. Not because all cables are the same, but because of what it costs them to manufacture vs. the cost on customers. Monster cables are more than doubled in price from their actual cost. Now I won't go into the whole "digital: it's either all there, or not at all" debate because the real fact is that it is more complicated than that.
If you want tips at cables, one of the single most important things to consider is 1) Does it have an HDMI logo? This is actually quite important because a lot of cheaper imitators although may work, the percentage of successful products is much lower and less supported. The second thing is 2) How well is the cable built? Best Buy's Rocketfish cables are much cheaper than monster but I can't tell you how much trouble our installers had messing with them because the cables easily came apart.
I have not only bought these cables for myself, but for a bunch of other friends as well, and these work just as well as any other high end cable. Logo is there, build quality is descent. Don't worry so much about spending 30+ bucks on HDMI unless it is for a considerable distance. Even then it seems a bit steep to me.
Customer Review: BUY THIS CABLE.. NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
First of all, I have no relationship with the vendor or the manufacturer, just to get that straight.
ALLRIGHT! Here is the scenario:
1. I bought a super TV LCD 120hz 1800 1920p.52' nice, great value with a super blue ray dvd. So I was told about the MANDATORY HDMI CABLE. But since I was kind of 'out of budget', went ahead and ordered from amazon. total cost = $2.34
2. I was dying to use my new TV and did not wan to wait! so I went to brandsmart and decided to buy a HDMI cable, the sales rep gave me a SEMINAR ABOUT HDMI types and brands. After that, I was totally convinced that I spent money on amazon for no reason. so, I ended up buying a high performance 3D, 20000hz 900000p Monster cable, I mean the best cable ever in the store, . What the heck I want quality. Total cost = $145.20
3. My dream come true, I watched TV all day. great product. 2 days later, my cheap cable from amazon came in the mail. AND GUESS WHAT! THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS THE PACKING, and the cable color.
SAME QUALITY, SAME PERFORMANCE, MAYBE IT LOOKS CHEAP, but WHO CARES!!! and obviously, the $142.86 diference in price.
4. 10 minutes later, returning cable at Brandsmart to get refund on my cc.
NO DOUBT! JUST BUY IT don't bother questioning this product.
Customer Review: HDMI for less
Summary: 5 Stars
It burns me when I go to Radio Shack or similar stores looking for audio/video cables and they want $30 to $50 for an HDMI cable, when I can get the same thing for less than $10 at Amazon. Same thing for almost all audio/video accessories. So when you are building a home theater, look to Amazon first. Simply buy your wall mount (I suggest the Cheetah brand), your banana plugs, your video cables, your surge protector (I recommend the Monster brand - get the best one you can afford.), your speaker wire, and all the rest of the necessary stuff, and you will save a ton of money over what the retail stores charge. And do not be fooled by the hype that a $50 cable will outperform and look better than the less expensive ones. These cables perform spectacularly! Now to be fair, I purchased one inexpensive HDMI cable years ago (not from Amazon) when the Playstation 3 first came out that failed on me. It was very cheaply made, and it fit loosely in the connector and would cause the video to suddenly lose contact. These cables sold by Amazon fit tightly into the connector and have never failed, but if they ever do, I just get a new one and I'm still money way ahead of buying an expensive one.Customer Review: Spend $3-$4 to try it out for yourself (it carries a 1080p signal)
Summary: 5 Stars
The overall feel of this cable is cheap compared to higher-priced cables, but feel and looks don't mean anything compared to performance. As far as performance, it carries a 1080p signal from my PS3 to my tv when I play a movie or Blu-ray... but when I was playing Madden 2010 it only carried a 720p. I'm not sure if it is the game itself, or if the cable isn't able to carry all of the "information" being sent from the PS3 while playing the game (I don't claim to be a tech. genius so don't know if that would even cause the problem). Fortunately my brother has the same model tv, PS3, and Madden 2010. He bought a mid-priced cable and checked his signal so that I could get a better idea on the performance of this cable. His tv also showed a 720p signal while playing Madden 2010, so I think I can safely make the assumption that this cable (as far as video signal) is equivalent with at least a mid-range HDMI cable. The sound carried by the cable was crisp as well. Regardless if you think a cheap cable can perform as well as a higher-priced cable or not, it's a no-brainer to spend $3-$4 to try it out for yourself.