HDMI Cable - 2 Male Connectors - 2 Meters

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0015GPP5S
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• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

This HDMI cable has two male Type A plugs to connect your TV, Playstation 3, computer/monitor, DVD players, and more. You'll get the best picture quality possible with HDMI. HDMI supports full resolution of Blu-ray media, and high quality image output for monitors and TVs. And HDMI cables carry both audio and video signals, so you have fewer cables to get tangled up! Additionally, this cable can be used with a DVI-D (24+1 pin) or DVI-I (24+5 pin) adapter to connect DVI video output from a computer to an HDMI monitor (please note, in this application only video will be transmitted; DVI does not carry audio signals).

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Q: "Should we pay more for an HDMI cable?" A: "No", December 14, 2008

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A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HDMI Cable - 2 Male Connectors - 2 Meters (Electronics)

Just in case someone may feel guilty for not paying a lot more for, basically the same thing, let's look at our top of the line offer, Monster HDMI 1000HD Ultra-High Speed HDMI Cable (2 meters) and do a quick comparison.

This item supports the HDMI 1.3 standard. Any HDMI 1.3 cable can carry up to 10.2 Gbit/s. Hmmm... I suppose the Monster is much better, right? Well... it "guarantees a certified cable bandwidth of 10.2" Okay, but the Monster also supports "x.v.Color, and Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD". It turns out that, all of the above, and more, are part of the HDMI 1.3 specs and they are fully supported by every cable that complies to the standard and can be had for about 95% less in the Premium Gold. The expensive brand presentation simply enumerates the HDMI 1.3 specs as if it being HDMI 1.3 compliant was a really big deal. It is not a big deal. Even a cable that costs 95% less is HDMI 1.3 compliant.

My suggestion: if you think that the proponents of the expensive brand have a point when they claim that their product is a lot more durable, buy TWO Premium Gold wires and still pay almost 90% less than you would pay for one of the expensive ones.

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.

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The following are the HDMI 1.3 specs and all certified HDMI 1.3 cables (including Monster) are going to support them.

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)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Why pay more? No need to., August 23, 2009

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Lerch "dinosaur dad" (usa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HDMI Cable - 2 Male Connectors - 2 Meters (Electronics)

Bought thee cables and frankly can not tell the difference between them and the much-higher priced cables. I have even swapped them out in the same setup and I can hear no difference. And, I am not tone deaf, having had 13 years of musical training.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why pay more?, January 7, 2011

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Jack (TN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HDMI Cable - 2 Male Connectors - 2 Meters (Electronics)

Cables for computers and electronics have always been way overpriced in brick and mortar stores. Psychological studies have shown that people will ususally overlook the price of an add-on or upgrade if it is less than 10% of the main item you're purchasing. Also, people want to be able to hook up their equipment as soon as possible. Hence cables for $600-$1000 TVs cost $60 or more. The salesman may give you a deal by offering them at half price, $30. (That's exactly what my salesman did.) Instead, since I wasn't in a hurry, I bought these for a fraction of the price. They meet all the same standards and they work great.