Monster M1000 HD-8 Ultimate High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (8 feet)

by Monster

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 96 x 1 x 1 inches ; 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JVGWJI
• Item model number: M1000 HD-8
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 20, 2006

Product Description

Length: 8 feet

From the Manufacturer

	The Demands of High Definition High Definition home entertainment delivers astonishing life-like picture and sound; from Blu-Ray discs to video games picture and sound quality has been raised to levels that standard cables cannot match:  Bandwidth has increased from 2.2 Gbps to greater than 10.2 Gbps with features such as: Uncompressed 1080p high definition video with up to 16 bit Deep Color Eight channels of 192/24 digital audio for ultimate 7.1 surround sound, and an integrated control channel Achieving every audio/video detail and nuance requires a fast and accurate high quality cable that can not only produce the highest quality image, but maintain that quality during the most demanding of situations requires a cable that can produce and maintain the highest quality image. Using a higher grade HDMI cable ensures that outside noise interference bends in the cable or poor connections do not interfere with the high definition experience. Surpassing the Demands Monster has been manufacturing High Performance Quality cables for more than thirty years, and the ultra-high speed M1000 HD for HDMI is one of Monster's flagship cables. Monster's M1000 HD ensures everything you like to watch in high definition has maximum realism, and impact. Get All the Bandwidth You'll Ever Need: 4Kx2K screens provide four times the resolution of 1080p TVs for dazzling displays on par with today's digital cinemas. This quadruples the need for speed and the Monster M1000HD delivers the full experience. Reproduce All the Colors Your HDTV Can Capture Displaying movies and photos on your HDTV in all the living color your camera and camcorder can capture calls for today's higher bandwidth cables like the M1000 HD. The Monster HDMI Difference While it is true that HDMI is a digital connection, not all cables are the same. Any cable used must not only pass the signal; it must maintain he signal with high-speed especially when accessing all of the advanced formats that are available from sources such as a Blu-Ray disc. Other HDMI cables do not provide protection from bends necessary for tight installation, or provide advanced manufacturing techniques and materials for proper terminations to eliminate noise. Only cables designed to eliminate noise and constructed with the highest standards to protect against installation methods will produce the highest definition audio and video. Monster has been a leader in the HDMI connectivity from the beginning, working with HDMI LLC to educate consumers on the benefits and performance aspects of the cables. With Monster Advanced for HDMI design and construction for the highest level of HDMI performance is guaranteed, thanks to greater cable capacity for support of 12-bit, 14-bit, or even 16-bit color (Deep Color) available from advanced HD sources and displays. Every Monster Ultra-High Speed rated cable is manufactured with 24K contacts for maximum signal transfer and ultra-low distortion at the point of connection, silver-content soldering, connecting the HDMI cable's conductors to the connector's internal connection pins lowers resistance and maximizes digital signal transfer. Additionally, Monster Advanced for HDMI cables feature a heavy-duty internal metal shell which provides full shielding of the internal conductor wiring routed inside the connector. This provides an extra defense against interference that can enter at the connector can degrade the digital signal causing a poor image or drop-outs in the audio. This provides an advantage in performance not found in other HDMI cables. Many HDMI cables only feature metal at the connection point. Inside the connector, a thin plastic shield typically separates the molded or metal connector body from the wiring inside. This type of construction allows for damage to the conductor wiring caused during installation or everyday use to needlessly expose the stream bit to noise. These advanced design and construction features provide for the Highest Definition possible for the full entertainment experience today and into the future.
	M1000HD for HDMI Performance Capabilities 4K x 2K Resolution- Ultra High Definition Video Enables home theatre owners with advanced AV sources and displays to achieve the same high resolution picture definition as that of commercial digital cinemas. 240/480 Hz Display- Faster Speed for Smooth Video Motion** Ideal for HD components with fresh rates of 480 Hz to 640 Hz yet compatible with slower refresh rates for the smoothest, most fluid video 8-16 Bit Color- Smoothest Gradation of Colors** Greater cable capacity to handle 16-bit color from advanced HD sources and displays that support this color depth yet compatible with all color bits from 8-bit to 16-bit. Enables more detailed gradations of individual colors for billions of colors realism. Monster 3D- Ready for 3D Displays Newer 3D movies and games supply two video streams each at 1080p Full HD. With this doubling in bandwidth, the Monster 1000HD is ready to handle it all with the capacity to for future generations of 3D. Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD- Lossless Surround Sound Greater cable bandwidth for support of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD lossless surround sound, available on Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD movies. **Availability of advanced audio/video features is dependant on the capabilities of your components and display

Product Description

Monster Advanced for HDMI cables feature a heavy-duty internal metal shell which provides full shielding of the internal conductor wiring routed inside the connector. This provides an extra defense against interference that can enter at the connector can degrade the digital signal causing a poor image or drop-outs in the audio.

Customer Reviews

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331 of 374 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars FUD - a perfect example, January 11, 2009

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A. Dent "Aragorn" (Minas Anor, GD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster M1000 HD-8 Ultimate High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (8 feet) (Electronics)

FUD - Fear, uncertainty, doubt.

According to Wikipedia, "the term originated to describe disinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broadly. FUD is a manifestation of the appeal to fear."

Still Wikipedia, quoting Eric S. Raymond: "The idea, of course, was to persuade buyers to go with safe [...] gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with [...], but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment [...]".

HDMI is all-digital for both sound and picture. As such, it either works or it doesn't and, when it doesn't work, you will know immediately. There's really nothing in-between. If a claim is made that the Monster is 'more reliable' or that it 'lasts longer', I can't see how such claim can be backed - does the hundred-dollar cable last 20 times longer than than the five-dollar cable? And, if it does, do we REALLY care that a cable supporting a standard that may be obsolete in 5 years COULD last for 100 years?

By the way, I do not challenge the claim of high quality for this cable. It appears to be well built. However, it is quality not needed and, in my view, not worth paying for. The way most of us use cables is: we plug them at the back of our electronic boxes and, if they work on 'day one' they are likely to work in the exact same fashion on day 1000 because they are not going to be subjected to any physical or thermal stress and the materials used to build them are not easily degradable. While 'quality' was important for analog cables where good quality made all the difference in the world, the digital wires either transmit the digits or they don't. If they do, they all work the same, the $1 HDMI cable gives you the exact same 'performance' the $100, gold-plated cable does.

The claims that seem to suggest that these expensive wires allow more Gigabytes of data to pass through and the implied suggestion that you would get a less bright image or a less crisp sound if you used a two-dollar cable are NOT true. The HDMI is a published standard and there is a minimum data throughput that must be supported. If it is, then the device is HDMI compliant and you will get everything that HDMI promises to deliver. If some cable exceeds the specified throughput, it's nice but it's irrelevant because no electronic component that's HDMI compliant would attempt to push more bytes through the wire than the standard specifies. If they did, they'd violate the specs and would not sell very well. If your electronic component had an HDMI port that called for an HDMI cable that exceeded the HDMI published standards, then it would no longer be called an HDMI port but a proprietary, non-standard solution.

The following are the HDMI 1.3 specs and ALL certified HDMI 1.3 cables (including the five-dollar wires and the Monster) are going to support them. Whatever 'extra' the M Series offers is useless because no HDMI-connected hardware component is going to ask for more.

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)

My suggestion: search Amazon for "hdmi cable 1.3" and make an informed price/quality decision before you buy.

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Note:

I noticed a typical FUD statement that has been posted on this page in the form of a video. The presenter suggests that all signals, including 'digital' get degraded when passing through a wire because of the 'laws of physics'. The key word in his presentation is that 'IF YOU HAVE A REALLY LONG CABLE' then you may get into trouble. This is true. You can't have a 100 ft. HDMI cable or a one mile-long cable. Eventually, unless your signal, digital or analog, is boosted in some way, it's going to die and you won't be able to decode it at the other end.

However, this is NOT the point. This HDMI cable is NOT 'really long'. In fact, it is REALLY SHORT and, no matter how much FUD is inserted into the discussion, on 6 ft. or 8 ft. cables, you are NOT going to get a 'better' picture just because you pay 100 times more for a wire.

Unless the vendor comes up with some unbiased tests showing that, on 6 ft. or on 8 ft. cables the less expensive brands loses 'bits' to the degree that the receiving device can't correct for the loss while the expensive brand does not, this is nothing but FUD.

115 of 145 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, January 12, 2009

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TM "Sniper SpecOps" (Seattle, Wa.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monster M1000 HD-8 Ultimate High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (8 feet) (Electronics)

I used to work for Best Buy, and our discount at the time was to get the items for cost. We could buy these cables for less than $7 each.... bit of a markup from the companies, huh? I also found that these cables do the exact same thing as the lower end cables, just with a brand name.

Don't waste your money. During these hard economic times we all still enjoy getting some items that make us feel better, why not be able to get more of what we enjoy with less money spent.

122 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete Waste Of Money-Total Scam!!, December 16, 2008

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Robert C. Belden "Bob-O" (Land O'Lakes, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monster M1000 HD-4 Ultimate High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (4 feet) (Electronics)

Please! Please! Please! Don't be a total "Dumas" and believe the in-store Sales-Hole hyping these over-priced, do nothing extra cables!! These shameless in-store thieves know that you'll be spending some serious coin on your new flat-panel, so whats another hundred+ for some bogus cable if you think you'll be getting a better picture?? NOT!! It's common knowledge by those in-the-know, that measureable lab tests using an oscilloscope show ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE in signal, picture or audio quality between these cables and the ten buck or less generic brand cables on Amazon.com, [...] etc. This was both professionally measured as well as being demonstrated by an engineer on a recent expose' on FOX13 News in Tampa, FL. Keep in mind that all this cable has to do is transfer data only; (not high power, like a loud speaker) so any reasonably good conductor would work just fine just to transmit a data signal. So, either it works or doesn't work at all - there is NO middle ground!! Furthermore, if the cable really made that much of a difference, don't you think that the Manufacturer would either include the cable in the box or mention that in the set-up instructions?? I have tried several brands of HDMI cables, doing brand-blind tests and could never see or hear any difference of any kind!! EVER!! Don't be a total "Dumas" and fall for the BS!! I hope this clears up any myths regarding so called "high end" cables. Don't believe me??? Humor me; and try it yourself!! You'll be glad you did... use the money you save to buy some nice Blu-Ray movies instead!! Bob-OH! OUT!!!

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