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Monster MC 1000HD 2M Ultra High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable 2 meters

HDMI places incredible performance demands on your digital A/V connections. It requires a truly high-bandwidth cable that can deliver enormous amounts of digital data without bit-error and signal degradation. Monster has created the Advanced HDMI 1000HD Ultra-High Speed Cable for those who demand the best in high definition home theater–both now and in the future. This cable is ideal for larger HDTVs, advanced projectors, and high definition AV sources. Monster designs the most advanced HDMI cables and certifies their performance for future generations of products. If the performance capabilities of this cable are ever exceeded by future generations of HDMI, Monster will replace this cable at no charge–see product packaging for further details.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star The usual Monster hype and inferior results – for a price
Don’t get me wrong: Not only would I dare not waste money on an HDMI cable at this price, but you’d have to pay me to watch video thru a Monster product for more than a few seconds. Some reviewers here state that “digital is digital”, there’s no distortion thru any digital cable. Sorry, but that’s incorrect. If you think that the three digital numbers “1001100101111010″, “10011 00101 111 010″ and “001 10 010111 1 010″ are translated as the “same number” by a DAC, you’re mistaken. If you think 30AWG stranded wire delivers audio and video as cleanly as 20AWG solid-core wire, you’re mistaken again. If you think a soldered HDMI cable is just as “good” as a crimp-designed HDMI connector, you’re still wrong. If you think cheap-gold connectors are superior to titanium/copper alloy, you’re so far behind you’ll never catch up. And if the bit about silver-plating didn’t ring a warning bell, you’re hopeless. Anyway, this Monster atrocity came as part of a relative’s purchase of an Amazon-partner vendor’s HDTV deal — “free”, if you don’t count the king’s ransom paid for the TV. The cable has a lot of chroma noise; red is especially noisy and often bleeds all over the screen (This is a calibrated TV!); it seems incapable of displaying a clean blue or yellow. Flesh tones look weird, and in general the colors just never seem “right”. I’ve seen tests where the video impedance in this cable doesn’t meet HDMI’s 100-ohm spec. That certainly explains the awful color. As usual with HDMI, there’s a lot of softness compared to good component coax. Finally, the audio thru this Monster junk is atrocious; it has a depressed midrange, gooey bass, and really mushy upper mids and treble, with a flat soundstage, poor channel separation, and no dimensionality at all. I started to give this cable away, but I wouldn’t do something like that to a stranger, much less to anyone I know. I replaced it with a [...] Chinese cable from Amazon I’ve used for a couple of years; its color, acutance and audio are superior, though by design no HDMI wire at any price can beat solid-core coax. I even have a couple of s-video wires that dance circles around HDMI’s hype, especially Monster’s brand of hype. You could say this product helps the environment by cleverly re-packaging industrial waste, but it’s infuriating to realize that so many people are suckers for gear like this. Amazon has too many other, better HDMI cables listed, so avoid Monster but get your HMDI from Amazon’s other listings. Unfortunately mediocrity like this is selling so well it’s becoming the norm. [...]

1 Star Works no better than a coat hanger
If the picture and sound are there for digital devices, then it’s working. A blind-testing proved this:

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1 Star Snake Oil
I don’t own this cable, but knowing this company, it is pure snake oil, as all of the other high priced cables are. Treat yourself to some knowledge and become well informed on the true physics of sound and visual signals:

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1 Star If you buy this cable, congrats you just wasted $80
Digital signals are a long string of 1s and 0s. There is no .5. it’s either on or its off. There is absolutely no video or audio quality difference between this cable and a cheap $5 cable. If you buy this cable, congrats, you just wasted $80. Same thing with DVI cables too.

This however, is not the case for analog cables such as component, and s-video. Those cables, since they are analog and continuous signals (not discrete like DVI, HDMI), will benefit from higher quality cables.

5 Stars monster hdmi 1000hd
Ok,I have used this cable my self and just bought another cable from a seller here on amazon for 23.00 usd.at 23 dollars people would be fools not to buy.look under used cables they are actually new.but amazon will not allow them to sell as new at there pricing.And as far a other saying hdmi is hdmi are fools.there are 4 revisions to hdmi cables so far.hdmi,hdmi 1.3a,hdmi 1.3b,hmdi 1.3c.If you are like me a home theater audiophile.you will need this cable.I have a denon dts-hd,dolby hd reciever.the cheap cables would allow sound encoded in hd but reciever sounded muted.wasnt very loud.then i put this cable in a wow what a difference.I tryed 3 other hdmi cables i had laying around same results.think about it..you spent 300-1000 for a good receiver,200-500 for a good blu-ray player but you wont spend 23 dollars to buy a hdmi monster cable?It is a monster cable,hence it will work perfectly with nice tight connections and extremely well built design.what others dont tell you is that the cheap cables can come apart and connections may be loose.SO WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THE CHANCE??don’t be fooled buy other reviewers a cheap cable is not as good I KNOW THIS FROM TRIAL AND ERRROR.however do not pay 100+ dollars for this cable that is just foolish.then yes you are getting ripped off.ANOTHER QUESTION I HAVE TO OTHERS OUT THERE.IF YOU HAVE A SAMSUNG TV AND WHEN YOU TURN IT ON THEN POWER UP YOUR DVR OR DVD BLU-RAY PLAYER AND SOUND DOESNT WORK UNTIL YOU RESTART YOUR TV IT IS NOT YOUR TV IT IS YOUR HDMI CABLE.LOOSE FITTING HDMI CABLE TO BACK OF TV CAUSES THIS.BUY THIS CABLE AND PROBLEM IS RESOLVED.

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