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Uploaded by on Jul 13, 2010

Independent experts polled in an NBC Action News consumer comparison believe home theater owners could maintain high quality pictures and a higher balance in their checking accounts by opting for the cheapest HDMI cables possible.

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  • hahaha wow

  • Yes, a $10 dollar HDMI cable is just as good as one costing $129. and think of all those DVD's and Bluray's you could buy with the savings alone. I paid only $14 for my HDMI cable with $4 of that being for express shipping to my door.

  • @QuantumGenetic also when looking for hdmi cables just check to see if its a 1.4 cable if its 1.3 It will not support 3D

  • I almost got sucked into buying these shit monster cables as well, when I looked on monoprice. com and saw there was no difference In quality and in fact some of monoprices cables were claiming to work better. there as low as 2$ check them out! I also have a crappy video on my channel.

  • what a fucking nob jockey! it the signal get's sent in 0&1's no matter what cable you get it AINT GOING TO GET BETTER!!! Dum ass paying $140 on a Cable where you can get one for the price of a cheap Thai Whore "$1"

  • damn.. people need to do their HW

  • Funny to see some people still claiming the colours etc are different in different cables.

    Of course its generally the people who wasted £80 a cable who stick to that theory when its pretty much unanimous that there's is no difference. Pay a bit more for better quality cable and reliability, but it should be against trading standards to claim the picture quality will be different.

  • @vgking699 Holy shit these things, are cheap as fuck... seriously?

  • its a huge rip off and sucks even more because I've seen be included, ps3's don't come with an HDMI cable, my mom had got a new 32inch HD tv for gift and it didn't have HDMI cables included either, even though the tv had a built in bluray player which ended up being returned 3 times because it made a loud noise we could hear over the movie and ended up buying a different model of tv that didn't have the built in blurry player but even the separate bluray player didn't come with a HDMI cable

  • with digital, higher quality doesnt mean anything, static doesnt influence it, the signals are either on (1) or off(0) even if a lower end hdmi cable has some sort of static or interference, 1.1142 is still on, and 0 is still off, whereas old analogue signals, like those white, yellow, red cables from xbox/etc use analogue signals, so a little static shows up, 0.1 higher signal could increace the blue for that pixel by 10%

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