HDMI Cable Comparrison?

Question

I am currently trying to compare prices on HD cables, and I was wondering if anyone knew any cables that meets the standard of the M1000 Monster cable, or HDMI Version 1.3a comparisons.

Here's the link -

http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=3847

Answer 1

Never, ever, buy an HDMI cable from Monster.  Ever.

Answer 2

remember HDMI is a digital signal...... So any hdmi cable works as well as any other....Spend your money if you want to... but I have very cheap ones and can't tell the difference

Answer 3

i bought mine for only 20 bucks and so far work as good as a monster cable 120$ ( except for the lifetime guarantee which i dun think to be any big problem )

Answer 4

Other than un-godly high mark ups in price there is nothing special about Monster cable, period. They convince regular consumers through marketing, fancy packaging and colorful cable insulation that you should spend your hard earned dollars on their product. In fact you cannot even find what gage wire they utilize. You'll see in this forum, several links to sites with great affordable HDMI cables, I've provided a couple more in addition to articles about Monster. Educate yourself and save your money. Don't buy anything from Monster.

Answer 5

Monster is "making up" terms to scare people into buying their HDMI cables.

The president of Monster gave a talk at last years CEDA conference talking about 'fast' HDMI and un-known to him, one of the guys who owns the patent on HDMI was in the audience.  The guy was seen leaving the talk just shaking his head.

So no cable can claim to have the same features as Monster - because it's all fake/made up stuff.

Get a good HDMI cable from BluJeans and you will be fine. For $40 - you cannot go wrong.

NOTE: The new issue of "Widescreen Review" has an article on HDMI 1.3. You might want to read data from people NOT trying to sell you over-priced copper. It's likely less biased.