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HDMI Cable 3ft 3 ft 1 3 1080P FOR PS3 TO DVD LCD HDTV

Specifications HDMI to HDMI Cables w/Gold Plated Connectors. 19-Pin design. For Video & Audio hookup of digital electronics – HDTV, Plasma, DLP, LCD, DVD, DVR, Cable, Satellite, DirectTV & more.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Great Cables, and CHEAP!
These cables seem like pretty high quality, store bought cables. I was impressed with how little they cost, and how durable they appear. I plugged them in, and what can I say, they just work. Don’t buy into the Monster hype. Most HDMI cables are just that, standard cables coming from the same factory. If you are looking to save a TON of money, buy these.

5 Stars PERFORMANCE+PRICE=AWESOME!
Connecting an hf237 1080p lcd monitor to a philips 5960 DVD player using this cable, outputting 1080p, picture looks great, i don’t need to try a more expensive cable. but i ordered 2 more because of all the $$ i saved and can shop for a larger 1080p LCD monitor.

5 Stars Excellent functionality
I really like the 3ft length because for a lot of jobs, like going from a HDMI switch to the TV, and from the switch to the PS3 etc. longer cables can be a pain (you have to bundle them up etc.). These cables are inexpensive, but they work just as well as any other pricey cable. Read the reviews that explain what a digital signal means!

1 Star utter garbage
you will get what you pay for! compare this to a 30 or 100 dollar hdmi and you will see the difference. I have a 46″ 120hz LCD Samsung and the picture was incredibly snowy and fuzzy with this junk out of china. Beware. Not worth the 3 dollars on your new prized electronics.

5 Stars Not PS3-specific – will connect any two devices over HDMI, if they are close enough
[Anyone remembers the old "I am not going to spend a lot for this muffler" commercial?]

The 3 ft. is my favorite length to connect any electronics that happen to be very close to each other.

Just in case someone may feel guilty for not paying a lot more for a premium brand, it should be stated that at this length – 3 ft., you will get as good a service from a no-brand cable as you would from a super-expensive rip-off. An HDMI 1.3 cable should be able to carry, error free, all the signal your electronic equipment may put out.

The FUD campaign attempting to attract buyers toward the more expensive brands makes a series of claims. I will address them, as they may apply to this specific cable.

- Signal attenuation is less over a more expensive cable. – TRUE, BUT that’s irrelevant on a 3 ft. length. The HDMI consortium stated that even the cables that were not ‘certified’ as ‘Category 2′ or ‘High-Speed’ will meet the requirements at lengths of 6 ft. or less. At 3 ft., it would be a waste to consider an ‘expensive’ alternative. In addition, the newer devices have sufficient processing power and are sensitive enough to properly interpret even the more ambiguous ‘digits’ they receive.

- The expensive cables are better engineered and their contacts are less likely to break. – TRUE, BUT how many times is one going to plug an HDMI cable in and out of an HDMI socket over the cable’s lifetime? 5 times? 10 times? The ‘better engineered’ claim has no practical importance. If your cable works on ‘day one’ the odds are that it will be left in the back of your box for many month or years before it is unplugged and plugged back in. If this cable is purchased for home use, the ‘better engineered’ claim should not be of a major concern.

- The more expensive cables are ‘future proof’. – NOT TRUE. Claims are made that, if you buy the more expensive wires you won’t have to buy new ones when ‘new standards’ emerge because the more expensive wire will support them. This is untrue on 2 different levels. First, your cheap cable was purchased to work with some very specific devices which need HDMI 1.3 and will never support the ‘new standard’. The new standards will be supported by new electronic devices but, for as long as you keep the existing ones, you will still need this cable to connect them. Second, the emerging HDMI 1.4 specs call for physically different connectors so, no matter how large a bandwidth the existing expensive cables may support, it won’t matter because you still won’t able to plug them into an HDMI 1.4 port so… there go your $5 or… there go your $200, depending on your having purchased a ‘cheap’ or a ‘top of the line’ HDMI cable.

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Here are the HDMI 1.3 specs supported by both this cable and its more expensive alternatives.

Maximum signal bandwidth (MHz) 340

Maximum TMDS bandwidth (Gbit/s) 10.2

Maximum video bandwidth (Gbit/s) 8.16

Maximum audio bandwidth (Mbit/s) 36.86

Maximum Color Depth (bit/px) 48

Maximum resolution over single link at 24-bit/px 2560