HDMI WTF???!!

You should be able to buy non-name brand cables for $20-30, probably even less. The satellite guy handed me a couple of HDMI cables as part of the install. HDMI is digital technology and either it works or doesn't work, no "tonal quality" aspects to these kind of cables. IMO the Monster brand is a triumph of marketing and obfuscation over engineering.

 

But I'll bet the Audiophiles will argue it to death They'll do scientific tests and long, drawn out listening tests in sterile environments to prove their point.

 

Wal-mart. Cheap, works fine.

 

Yep!

 

www.monoprice.com

10 bucks

 

Get any HDMI cable as long as it supports v1.3 (version 1.3 which supports the high def. audio formats as well). You should be able to pick up cheap ones on the web.

 

There is one that is free, but with 3.99 shipping.

http://www.1saleaday.com/

It will expire in 5 hours 10 minute and some odd seconds.

2 cables-http://www.meritline.com/193-142-0022.html<---6.99

 

LOL! I know somebody who got taken for $500 a foot "High Def" coaxial cables for his system!!

 

I just bought an HDTV as well and was shocked by the price gouging on these. You can buy a 6ft cable for about $5 online.

An HDMI cable is an HDMI cable is an HDMI cable. They are digital and send 1's and 0's. It either works or it doesn't.

 

I've had monoprice HDMI cables... work great. I also got from them an HDMI to DVI for hooking up the macbook pro.

 

That's what we do best

*smacks forehead*

 

I definitely recommend using www.monoprice.com for all your cabling needs.

And generally, as long as you get the 1.3 compliant cable, you will be fine. This rating means that the cable has larger bandwidth than the earlier versions, and will allow you to use any of the new high def audio formats that come on blu-ray disks (which is about the only use for the 1.3 spec right now...).

The length of the cable does actually start to become an issue upwards of 35-40 feet, so you would need to do more research then... but for anything less then that the monoprice cables will work just fine.

 

www.monoprice.com for all your home theater cabling needs. A 6' HDMI should run you no more than $10-20.

I've got monoprice cables for my entire HT setup. Not one complaint. And they're fast on the shipping.

EDIT: I guess I should have read the thread first. I'll never go anywhere else for HT cables, though.

 

That's where I got mine---Less than $20

 

another vote for monoprice.com

 

Not quite...

The thinner gauge cables tend to lose steam after about 6ft w/1080p (1080i/720p generally fine). See 'sparkly' dots (generally green, but can be white, other colors), your cable is struggling. Thicker gauge cables are recommended if going past 6ft and running 1080p. And no, f*** Monster cables, the Monoprice ones are just fine and what I am using with high end equipment.

 

I am designing a line of HDMI cables that will not only align the spins on all the electrons, but it will also balance each individual electron to reduce aural signal flutter and optic yaw caused by magneto-microresonances induced into the system by Out-of-Order Abhomic Factor Impedance that many lesser cables have.

 

Very good!

 

You have to live up to the Denon $500 cat 5 cable.

read the user comments its funny.

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1216165414&sr=8-1

 

Dude! - I wish you hadn't said that! - I hit the link, and thus far have read the first 3-4. Funniest siht I've read in a long time!

Trouble now is, there's another 230+ to go.

Damn.

Cheers,
Ian

 

And I found the first Ferrari reference at about #10:

I'm still reading