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Old 02-14-2009, 12:10 PM   #741
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I don't see any negativity towards the OP at all. Nobody said anything negative about the individual who created this thread. No "face slapping" taking place. In fact, I think that we are all WITH him on this one. He/she is clearly making fun of the fact that a Monster executive is trying to prove his product better than the rest.
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Someone who works for Monster saying that only Monster cables deliver a digital signal better than other digital signals? Does this have anything to do with the fact that he works for the company? Can the people who work at cigarette companies tell me how great their products are as well?
Maybe I got confused the OP bash with the comment above. Regardless, Monster bashing is annoying.
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Old 02-14-2009, 01:20 PM   #742
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Why because they sell snake oil that makes cables better? And charge ridiculous amounts of money for it? Continue the bashing
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Old 02-14-2009, 01:57 PM   #743
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Monster makes a solid product.
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:02 PM   #744
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Monster makes a solid product.
They may be quality cables, but would you pay a $100,000 for a hyundai?
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:05 PM   #745
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I love the segway he used in that tiny room
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:06 PM   #746
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If you're cable is not okay, monster or not, 2 things can happen

The First thing will be white snow on the display because the signal error correction chip fail.

Then you'll have On .. Off... On ... Off monitor.

If you get a signal without both of those then it's 99% fine.

My 50$ 35 feet monoprice cable hold my 1080p 24/60hz signal just fine without any error..
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:08 PM   #747
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I don't see any negativity towards the OP at all. Nobody said anything negative about the individual who created this thread. No "face slapping" taking place. In fact, I think that we are all WITH him on this one. He/she is clearly making fun of the fact that a Monster executive is trying to prove his product better than the rest.
Quite frankly, I really don't know what the OP was trying to convey. In the first post he seems to poke fun at Monster, but then appears to support them in his second post. I'm so confused as to what to now believe!

LOL
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:15 PM   #748
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Why because they sell snake oil that makes cables better? And charge ridiculous amounts of money for it? Continue the bashing
I find it funny that you bash Monster as you have a Monster power center in your system.

-K
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:29 PM   #749
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http://reviews.cnet.com/hdmi-cable/?...content;rb_mtx

Read this article. I spent $18 each on Belkin HDMI cables at Sam's Club because I wanted ones with gold ends so they wouldn't corrode. I have had very bad luck with Monster Cables over the years and the 2 S-video I purchased both broke and had to be tossed and my cheap ones are still working. I would never purchase a Monster product again, they are all hype.
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Old 02-14-2009, 02:38 PM   #750
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If you're cable is not okay, monster or not, 2 things can happen

The First thing will be white snow on the display because the signal error correction chip fail.

Then you'll have On .. Off... On ... Off monitor.

If you get a signal without both of those then it's 99% fine.

My 50$ 35 feet monoprice cable hold my 1080p 24/60hz signal just fine without any error..
Sorry, but I doubt that your 35 feet of monoprice cables are actually sending 1080P. More likely it is actually sending only 720P for that length.

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Old 02-14-2009, 02:44 PM   #751
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I find it funny that you bash Monster as you have a Monster power center in your system.

-K
I bash the cables. Not the company.

I am not going to spend $15 on a surge protector to put $4000 of equipment on it.
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Old 02-14-2009, 03:18 PM   #752
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Sorry, but I doubt that your 35 feet of monoprice cables are actually sending 1080P. More likely it is actually sending only 720P for that length.

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He says it works fine,why the doubt?
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Old 02-14-2009, 03:57 PM   #753
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Sorry, but I doubt that your 35 feet of monoprice cables are actually sending 1080P. More likely it is actually sending only 720P for that length.

Rich
Funny my Projector say 1080p/24hz, my amp say 1080p/24hz and my Blu-ray player say 1080p/24hz.

The amp and Projector are the ones linking with my 35 feet cable. If my projector didn't received 1080p/24 it would fail to Sync and i would have a blank screen (that's how HDMI work, if it fail to negociate the resolution it blank).

Btw you'll want to talk to 90% of the member that post in the Projector section on Avsforum forum also... LOL!
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Old 02-14-2009, 05:25 PM   #754
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Funny my Projector say 1080p/24hz, my amp say 1080p/24hz and my Blu-ray player say 1080p/24hz.

The amp and Projector are the ones linking with my 35 feet cable. If my projector didn't received 1080p/24 it would fail to Sync and i would have a blank screen (that's how HDMI work, if it fail to negociate the resolution it blank).

Btw you'll want to talk to 90% of the member that post in the Projector section on Avsforum forum also... LOL!
I had based it upon the published lab tests, which showed that it failed. However, I am incorrect and they apparently passed in the real world (but the 50 foot failed both in the lab and in the field):

http://tinyurl.com/2xv6n8

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Old 02-14-2009, 07:31 PM   #755
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HDMI is a digital cable, that means all it sends is a signal denoting 1's and 0's.
Buying a really expensive HDMI cable is like buying one of those graphing, scientific calculators to do everyday simple mathematics.
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Old 02-14-2009, 07:39 PM   #756
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HDMI is a digital cable, that means all it sends is a signal denoting 1's and 0's.
Buying a really expensive HDMI cable is like buying one of those graphing, scientific calculators to do everyday simple mathematics.
Well I use a $5000 USB cable, and I am sure my transferred files to my external hard drive are better quality than if I use a $5 USB cable!
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Old 02-14-2009, 07:48 PM   #757
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^ Someone who clearly understands what I'm saying.
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Old 02-14-2009, 07:48 PM   #758
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Just like speaker wire/cabling, interconnects, power cords and the like, which have substantial differences in quality, I don't see why people are saying that all HDMI cables are created equal. I don't think they are. Does that mean you should spend exhorbitant amounts of money on these? NO! But to say that they are equal in quality and performance over everything else just doesn't make sense.

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Old 02-14-2009, 07:56 PM   #759
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Just like speaker wire/cabling, interconnects, power cords and the like, which have substantial differences in quality, I don't see why people are saying that all HDMI cables are created equal. I don't think they are. Does that mean you should spend exhorbitant amounts of money on these? NO! But to say that they are equal in quality and performance over everything else just doesn't make sense.

John
John,

Unfortunately too many people at Blu-ray.com either do not have the interest, appreciation, equipment, money, aptitude and/or ability (or learned to hear adequately) to see and hear the differences.

Rich
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Old 02-14-2009, 07:58 PM   #760
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Just like speaker wire/cabling, interconnects, power cords and the like, which have substantial differences in quality, I don't see why people are saying that all HDMI cables are created equal. I don't think they are. Does that mean you should spend exhorbitant amounts of money on these? NO! But to say that they are equal in quality and performance over everything else just doesn't make sense.

John
Speaker wire is different. It's not a digital signal. There is one analog cable system that doesn't depend so much on quality though. XLR/balanced audio. They are fairly cheap cables, and used in movie production, concerts, pro audio recording. It's just once consumers play the movie that was filmed using cheap XLR cables, they insist on using $100 HDMI cables!
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