I feel the need to bring up something that has been mentioned before here at Lockergnome. These Monster cables that you find in the bigger electronic store chains such as Best Buy or Circuit City are a scam. I bring it up, because I still see many people falling for it. People buy these cables often because the Monster brand of cables are the only option when you visit one of these places. You get your new blueray player or PS3 and you’ve just gotta have a cable. When you go to the cable aisle, the lowest priced cable is $50. Reluctantly, you buy it. Some of you may know better but are too lazy to go to another store that might have that same cable for $3.00. Waiting a week for a delivery from an online order doesn’t seem to be an option either.
This is your hard earned money people! You’re just giving it away to companies like Best Buy, Circuit City and Monster. They are raping you… hard! I agree with what Griff says in his post…
“HDMI Cables carry a digital signal, one made up of 1’s or zeros. Either it gets to the source, or it doesn’t. There is no middle man. The only reason you would need a fancier cable is if your Blu-Ray Player, or PS3, or whatever, was 100 feet away from your tv.”
Buy your cables elsewhere. Better yet, buy your electronics from somebody that doesn’t try take advantage of you by trying to make you overspend on items you don’t need.