Customer Reviews

Monster MVSV3-2M Double Shielded S-Video Cable (2 meters)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

For some years I tried this and other Monster products, to the tune of over $1000 in Monster a/v gear. The more you learn about video and audio, the more you'll avoid anything with the Monster label. Specifically, this s-video meets no NTSC, DVD or IEEE standard; it is common 30-ohm hookup wire with ineffective shielding and a poorly designed, low-conductance connect plug that can wreck your input jacks and gives poor grounding. Has a sharp image, but includes a catalog of chromatic aberrations from off-color skin tones to color blotching, dirty grays, burned highlights, murky shadows, noisy reds, and poor color balance due to impedance mismatching that results in cyan errors and bleeding reds. Makes video test patterns look great, but who watches test patterns all day? Amazon offers many other brands at good prices, why waste your $$ on this stuff? I removed every piece of Monster from my system and replaced them with AR, Belden, Viewsonics and others from Amazon. Result: vast improvement in every respect.

No difference compared to another good cable costing 1/2 as much.
Don't believe me - buy and then return it, or just save yourself
the trouble. Monster preys on perfectionists. Those people
giving such great reviews don't know the difference between
an ohm and plastic.

MVSV3 Gives excellent color with a vivirant and vivid feel. Deffinently a high porformence wire in its class,and worth the buy.

I had a pair of these cables for approximately 2 years when i noticed there was a frayed end where the connector started to come off. I didn't notice any change in performance but I recalled that ALL Monster Cable "wires" have a lifetime warranty. I thought I'd try and take advantage of their claim and low and behold, I easily made arrangements to have a new one exchanged. It took only a week of waiting (back and forth shipping, mind you) and I had a brand spanin' new cable in my possesion. Great customer service!!!

~I bought the MVSV3-1m cable and put it between my Pioneer V555 DVD player and SONY WEGA tv KV-27FS12, I was unable to see with my naked eyes any improvement regading the visual quality, color, sharpness. Same as the result as I used the composite cable came with the box. I really don't know why. I have to say, my TV is a good one and the picture quality is already satisfactory even I don't use DVD player. Unfortunately my DVD player does not have component jack to let me try the next level video~~ experience. I don't want to say this expensive cable is a poor one, I was just unable to verify its alledged ultra high performance. we just don't have a benchmark to evaluate it.~

I attached both these S-Video Cables and the standard Red-White-Yellow (RCA) cables from the DVD player directly to the television. Being on different extensions, this allowed me to switch back and forth from the S-Video to the standard cables on the T.V. to see if there was any change in video quality. Sad to say, there was no change at all. Both pictures looked great. That's the only reason why I'm giving this 3 stars. If you want a really good picture, then buy HDTV and a really expensive DVD player with cables that have blue and green connectors instead of S-Video or yellow.

These cables will not make your old tired components the equivalent of a brand new DVD player. You will still need a good DVD player and a good TV. However, I found a marked difference in the quality of the video on my TV when compared to the bargain basement cables I originally used. Keep in mind my TV is only two years old and my DVD player is only three months old, and both components are higher end components, so I was starting with a good baseline of equipment.

If these cables don't show a marked improvement, consider whether it was the cables or the components.

Also, if you are not a picky video viewer, you will probably not think the increased video quality is worth the cost of these cables.

I bought this cable used, when I received the cable the pins were all bent. I sorta thought they would have checked it when they shipped it. However they gave me full refund and were very nice about taking care of me. Thanks,

amazon NOT buyer friendly! I purchased 2 items from 2 different sellers with the same description and received 2 different items. Contacted amazon who offered NO help! Stock photos misleading and no seller info not even a zip code made it difficult to determine who or how to contact someone to get it returned. Sellers IDs didn't match return address labels! NOT worth the hassle!!!!!!!

I hooked these cables up to my parents Toshibia SD-1600 DVD player. Not only are the cables strong, they also transmit a really clean signal across them. I used the regular cables that came with the DVD player, and when I switched to the Monster S-Video Cable, the image quality improved alot and was very noticable on thier big screen TV.

There is one thing I have to say, if you buy these cables, you should get them at Amazon.com since you will not find the cables for this low price anywhere. I paid (too much) for the ones I bought. I wish I had the foresight to get them at Amazon.com when I ordered the DVD player. So when you order these cables, make sure to order the other cables you need. Not only will your video be great, your sound will be too.