Customer Reviews

PlayStation 3 Component Cable

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Received a PS3 for Christmas and borrowed a friends PS3 to Component cable to get it up and running on my HDTV, worked fine. Meanwhile I ordered this one from Amazon. I received it and swapped it into my system. The resultant image had shadows, ghosting and other forms of interference. It was not usable. I went out and bought a Monster Cable (the same cable as I had borrowed) for $5 more and it worked fine. Don't waste your time and money on this one, it's going back to Amazon today.

I bought this over other PS3 component cables because it was cheaper and was long enough, and because I had never had any major issues with cables before. That was a mistake.

At 480i/480p the output looks more or less fine, a bit of noise but nothing severe. However at 720p/1080i banding lines appear and RGB separation is horrible and completely ruins the image. I'm going to end up having to buy another set of cables now to replace these.

I ran into a problem with other component cable brands (including the official Sony ones). The 5 cables are all bound together so close to the end that you are only able to spread the video set from the audio set about a foot apart. This would be fine if I were plugging them all into the back of the tv. I needed to plug my audio cables into a box about 2 feet away from the tv.
Judging by the picture, these cables looked like they would work, and they do. The ends separate at least 2 feet and the picture quality looks great.
BTW, I used these on an SDTV w/component inputs...just the brighter color and better sharpness difference over composite makes these worth the price.
It also comes with a regular yellow (composite) connection bundled in with the rest for some reason, I'm not sure why, although it might come in handy that you would only need to carry one cable if you took your PS3 somewhere that they didn't have component inputs.

I received my cable and hooked them up to my ps3 and they work great. I haven't had any problems and would recommend them to anyone.

I was skeptical of this product based on the cheap price, but have had no problems with it. Puts out great HD!

It was on sale the day I bought it. I installed it and while the image indeed looks sharper and color more alive (even for 480i, not HD), there is some sort of noise in the background, especially in dark scenes. It looks great but, that noise is very annoying. This might be on the TV (although I cannot see this noise using the standard composite interconnect) or some configuration on the PS3, so I'll have to buy the cables that Sony sells and see if I have the same problem.