Monster M1000dav

[zanderol24]

Hi can anyone tell me the spec on this cable cant seem to find it anywhere had it a while from hong kong so it may be a mickey mouse cable and worried im missing out on better audio/video- is it v1.3 whats that throughput?

please dont bash me for buyin monster

im opting for a chord silver plus next i think or qed, should i upgrade or will this suffice my needs?

heres the cable note its the old m1000

http://www.allmacshop.co.uk/proddeta...face__123141_/

thanks

[BStecke]

Should be fine. Neither of the ones you mentioned would improve performance, as long as your Monster works. Same goes for a cheap HDMI as well.

[zanderol24]

so this has the capability to throughput properly and wont throttle the data do i need a version 1.3?

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Originally Posted by zanderol24

Hi can anyone tell me the spec on this cable cant seem to find it anywhere had it a while from hong kong so it may be a mickey mouse cable and worried im missing out on better audio/video- is it v1.3 whats that throughput?

please dont bash me for buyin monster

im opting for a chord silver plus next i think or qed, should i upgrade or will this suffice my needs?

heres the cable note its the old m1000

http://www.allmacshop.co.uk/proddeta...face__123141_/

thanks

Don't deceive yourself. An hdmi cable is a hdmi cable. You'll regret it later.

[zanderol24]

Originally Posted by Blu-ray Fanatic

Don't deceive yourself. An hdmi cable is a hdmi cable. You'll regret it later.

so im still going to get the same sound and audio no matter what version it is etc i thought and am probably wrong that i need a version 1.3 for hd codecs?

thanks for all all input so far by the way

[I Bleed Blu]

Well, be prepared to get bashed. But I'm pretty sure their 1000 series is their best, so it will have the most up to date specs. Go to www.monstercable.com for the specs though

[My_Two_Cents]

There is no such thing as a v1.3a cable. HDMI versions apply to the device only. Cables are either category 1 (which you will rarely ever find these days) and category 2 (which will pass everything blu-ray has to offer). As was mentioned earlier, don't kid yourself. Monster is 1000% overpriced in order to pay for their lawyers and marketing staff. Their cables are made in the same China factories as just about everyone else's cables. Go with a Monoprice cable and save yourself enough $$ to buy 5-7 BDs.

[zanderol24]

thanks for the heads up i will spend my savings on band of brothers. i hear is stonking

[Pelican170]

Originally Posted by zanderol24

so im still going to get the same sound and audio no matter what version it is etc i thought and am probably wrong that i need a version 1.3 for hd codecs?

thanks for all all input so far by the way

1.1 will pass the HD Audio fine if you are sending it through PCM... and it will do 1080p as well...

[My_Two_Cents]

Originally Posted by zanderol24

thanks for the heads up i will spend my savings on band of brothers. i hear is stonking

Excellent decision!

[marmcfly]

unfortunately, no one has answered the OP's question. instead of ranting on about how overpriced Monster is (which happens to be true), why not answer her question? it's useless to tell her not to waste money buying a Monster cable because she already has - in fact, she has a monster cable that is a few years old. the fact is, she needs a v1.3 cable if she wants to send bitstream trueHD or DTS-HD, and no one has stated whether or not the M1000DAV is v1.3. yes, she can always send PCM audio, but we don't know if her devices can decode the codecs anyway.

so the point remains - is the M1000DAV v1.3????

[Brain Sturgeon]

Originally Posted by marmcfly

so the point remains - is the M1000DAV v1.3????

This has been discussed ad nauseum on a number of threads on this site, but as Ricshoe mentioned above, there is no such thing as a 1.3 compliant cable. The HDMI variants only apply to hardware. There are standard (category 1) and high speed (category 2) HDMI cables. Anybody trying to sell you a "HDMI 1.3 compliant cable" is trying to pull a fast one on you.

From the HDMI.org site:

Q. What is the difference between a “Standard” HDMI cable and a “High-Speed” HDMI cable?

Recently, HDMI Licensing, LLC announced that cables would be tested as Standard or High-Speed cables.

Standard (or “category 1”) cables have been tested to perform at speeds of 75Mhz, which is the equivalent of a 1080i signal.

High Speed (or “category 2”) cables have been tested to perform at speeds of 340Mhz, which is the highest bandwidth currently available over an HDMI cable and can successfully handle 1080p signals including those at increased color depths and/or increased refresh rates. High-Speed cables are also able to accommodate higher resolution displays, such as WQXGA cinema monitors (resolution of 2560 x 1600).

Since the M1000 is Monster's highest quality cable, I'm sure it is a high speed cable and the OP should have no problems with it. Honestly speaking, at cable lengths less than 6 feet or so, any HDMI cable will probably do the trick for pretty much all applications. It's when the cable runs get longer (>25') that you have to worry more about quality.