BlueRigger High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet 6.6 Feet (2m) - Supports 3D and Audio Return [Latest Version]

by BlueRigger(TM)

Product Details

• Item Weight: 7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00316263Y
• Item model number: HDMI-FE-1001
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2,069 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #4 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Cables
  • #4 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Cables & Interconnects > Video Cables > HDMI Cables
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 17, 2009

Product Description

Product Packaging: Retail

BlueRigger High Speed HDMI Cables are premium quality cables that help you extract the maximum performance from your gaming or home theater setup.

Rugged Build
BlueRigger cables are completely certified to support advanced HDMI features such as 3D, Ethernet and Audio Return
- The cable is made of a PVC outer layer that protects from physical strain, external interference & maintains efficiency of the digital signal
- It has gold plated connectors that help resist corrosion
- These cables are ATC (Authorized Testing Center) certified to support all resolutions up to 1440p

Quality Picture and Sound
- HDMI cable supports 3D content, Ethernet and Audio Return Channel
- Guaranteed 4K, 1440p, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p, and 480i Resolutions
- Supports Refresh Rates of up to 240hz and 48-Bit Deep Color
- Supports Transfer Rates of Up to 340Mhz or 10.2gbps
- Works with all HDTVs, Blu-ray players, Xbox 360, PS3 and other HDMI devices
- Supports True HD Dolby 7.1 and DTS-HD Master Audio
- HDCP Compliant

Backwards Compatible with Previous HDMI Standards
The cable is backwards compatible with all previous HDMI standards, so you'll be able to use the BlueRigger cable with all your HDMI devices.

Warranty
All BlueRigger HDMI cables are backed by a full 1 year warranty. Please contact us via email if you have any questions.

Right Length, Right Price
A 'Super Saver' item -Free shipping when ordering over $25 worth of merchandise from Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

238 of 249 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No negatives, good value, June 11, 2010

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A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BlueRigger High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet 6.6 Feet (2m) - Supports 3D and Audio Return [Latest Version] (Electronics)

Briefly: right length for most uses, right price, certified HDMI 1.3/Cat 2 and a 'super savers' item (free shipping when ordering over $25 worth of Amazon merchandise). Can't get much better than this.

Given the 1 yr. warranty promise and the ability to easily return the wire to Amazon if you get a defective item, I see no 'negatives'.

[Anyone remembers the old "I am not going to spend a lot for this muffler" commercial?]

The 3-6 ft. are the optimum lengths to connect most electronics. I am actually using 3 ft. cables whenever the connected devices happen to be very close to each other because, when it comes to cables, shorter is almost always better :).

Just in case someone may feel guilty for not paying a lot more for a premium brand, it should be stated that at these lengths - 3-6 ft., you will get as good a service from a no-brand cable as you would from a super-expensive rip-off. An HDMI 1.3x cable should be able to carry, error free, all the signal your electronic equipment may put out. In fact, you can buy one or 2 extra 'cheap' cables, just in case. At these prices they're easily affordable.

The FUD campaigns, trying to attract buyers toward the more expensive brands make a series of claims. I will address them, as they may apply to this specific cable.

- Signal attenuation is less over a more expensive cable. - TRUE, BUT that's irrelevant on a 3-6 ft. length. The HDMI consortium stated that even the cables that were not 'certified' as 'Category 2' or 'High-Speed' will meet the requirements at lengths of 6 ft. or less. At 3-6 ft., it would be a waste to consider an 'expensive' alternative. In addition, the newer devices have sufficient processing power and are sensitive enough to properly interpret even the more ambiguous 'digits' they receive. Incidentally, the vendor claims that this specific item WAS certified as 'category 2' and HDMI 1.3a.

- The expensive cables are better engineered and their contacts are less likely to break. - TRUE, BUT how many times is one going to plug/unplug an HDMI cable in and out of an HDMI socket over the cable's lifetime? 5 times? 10 times? The 'better engineered' claim has no practical importance. If your cable works on 'day one' the odds are that it will be left in the back of your box for many months or years before it is unplugged and plugged back in. If this cable is purchased for home use, the 'better engineered' claim should not be of a major concern.

- The more expensive cables are 'future proof'. - NOT TRUE. Claims are made that, if you buy the more expensive wires you won't have to buy new ones when 'new standards' emerge because the more expensive wire will support them. This is untrue on 2 different levels. First, your cheap cable was purchased to work with some very specific devices which need HDMI 1.3 and will never support the 'new standard'. The new standards will be supported by new electronic devices but, for as long as you keep the existing ones, you will still need this cable to connect them. Second, the emerging HDMI 1.4 specs call for new features such as an Ethernet channel and an audio return channel, both of which can't be supported by the existing HDMI 1.3 cables so, no matter how large a bandwidth the existing expensive cables may support, it won't matter because you still won't able to use them if you are to take full advantage of an HDMI 1.4 device so... there goes your $5 invesment or... your $200, depending on your having purchased a 'cheap' or a 'top of the line' HDMI cable.

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Here are the HDMI 1.3 specs supported by both this cable and its more expensive alternatives.

Maximum signal bandwidth (MHz) 340
Maximum TMDS bandwidth (Gbit/s) 10.2
Maximum video bandwidth (Gbit/s) 8.16
Maximum audio bandwidth (Mbit/s) 36.86
Maximum Color Depth (bit/px) 48

Maximum resolution over single link at 24-bit/px 2560×1600p75
Maximum resolution over single link at 30-bit/px 2560×1600p60
Maximum resolution over single link at 36-bit/px 1920x1200p75
Maximum resolution over single link at 48-bit/px 1920×1200p60

sRGB
YCbCr
8 channel LPCM/192 kHz/24-bit audio capability
Blu-ray Disc video and audio at full resolution
Consumer Electronic Control (CEC)
DVD-Audio support
Super Audio CD (DSD) support
Deep Color
xvYCC
Auto lip-sync
Dolby TrueHD bitstream capable
DTS-HD Master Audio bitstream capable
Updated list of CEC commands (only on HDMI 1.3a,b,c)
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My personal experience: I've never paid 'a lot' for an HDMI cable because it makes no sense to pay more. I took home one of the 'expensive' ones once because the salesman promised to take it back if I wasn't amazed by the difference. It made zero difference and I returned it.

49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Cable, Better Price, May 7, 2010

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Timothy Dodson "TJ" (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews
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I bought three of these cables and have used two so far. I put them both on Panasonic Viera Plasmas. One is 50" the other is 42". The HD picture on both is incredible. The cables work as advertised.

55 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great price, great cable, May 3, 2010

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HDMI being what is it, it is hard to rate picture quality, it either works or it dosen't, and this cable works. Don't go to bestbuy and spend $100 on a HDMI cable, get one of these.

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