HDMI Cable Brands Don't Matter

[IBSTORMIN]

According to PC magazine testing, for the vast majority of HDTV owners, a $5 HDMI cable will provide the same performance as a $100 one.

They tested several different HDMI cables and found absolutely no effective difference between a no-name $3 HDMI cable you can order from Amazon.com and a $120 Monster cable you buy at a brick-and-mortar electronics store.

Comparing cheap crap to expensive crap, of course it is going to sound the same. There are alot of better cables, priced less than Monster. Monster is the Bose of cables. Marketing is all they do well.

Those who think digital is only off or on are mistaken.

Mr P, didn't you post some good reading saying servers are a better way to go than a conventional CD? Part of the reason was the signal that goes down the digital cable has to be re-clocked at the other end and the quality of the digital cable and the accuracy of the clock make a big difference in sound quality? That would apply here also, would it not?

[Smokey]

Comparing cheap crap to expensive crap, of course it is going to sound the same. There are alot of better cables, priced less than Monster.

If you go to local retail stores like Bestbuy, Walmart or Radioshack, inflated priced cables is all the consumer is going to see. On their web sites, they also carry much cheaper HDMI, USB or VGA cables. But they never carry them in their stores. What they have in stores are inflated cables like Monster or Rocketfish.