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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
High Quality at a reasonable price, July 10, 2008
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Its difficult to wax poetic about a cable - if it works well you should never even notice that its there.
And I want to be careful here not to wade into a discussion of how much a cable is worth, especially when talking about digital signals that are either there, or not.
I pondered the question of $3 or $300 cables for a long while, and chose to hedge my bets by buying this one for the following reasons:
a) Its pricing places it right in the middle of the pack.
b) you can see just by looking at it why it might merit this price.
c) It would be madness for SCEA to sell a product as graphically intense as the PS3 and hobble it with poor quality cables. (These cables are made by SCEA too.)
So what do I get? I get extremely high cable construction quality, and a set of extra long cables. The 10-foot USB cable length is a boon since it lets me position myself comfortably away from the monitor.
The cable jacket is a very flexible cloth like material that makes it look like this cable will last forever, no matter how tightly I squeeze it through the openings in my entertainment center. The ends fit well into my HDMI connectors and are supposed to be gold plated.
All I care about now, is that the images are wonderfully clear ... and I can safely go back to ignoring cables.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice quality, June 28, 2008
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Yes yes, I know, as long as you're getting a decent quality HDMI 1.3a cable it doesn't make any difference what you get. Still, this is far from the most overpriced cable around, and it is nice.
What I really love about it is the USB cable it includes. As others have mentioned, the material it's made out of is great (the HDMI cable is the same way, but that's less relevant since it's behind your TV and you'd hardly ever move it). It's almost like a cloth or something-I've never seen a cable built like this before. It doesn't seem to "curl" up like most cables do.
I'd prefer the PS3 just use wired controllers, but that cable is a decent compromise. Frankly I wish it had been included with the PS3... It's also 10 feet long which is great.
I actually found a use for the short USB cable included with the PS3-I have my PS2/PS1 memory card adapter hooked to it, since that only needs to sit next to the system itself.
Note that these nifty USB cables are also sold in a separate 2 pack for slightly less. I ended up buying those too so I can hook up multiple controllers.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Final Word On HDMI Period, January 24, 2010
I work for no companies, sponsored by no companies, and bound by no companies, therefore I am going to give every reader the cold hard truth with no bias.
Hello everyone, I'm a pro DJ residing in Japan. Furthermore being such, I am a pretty big audiophile. I personally tested and researched my fare share of audio equipment such as turntables, CD players, mixers, receivers, amplifiers speakers, and cables etc. to try to find that optimal sound quality. As a hobbyist I am also a videophile that likes more than his fare share of movies and video games. With a library of about 500 DVDs (which I now would like to sell to replace with the same movies on Blu-Ray) and a video game count you wouldn't believe me if I told you. I really do love my electronics and want the best quality of presentation I can get. I'm sorry to give such a long background presentation about me, I just want everyone to know how serious and passionate I am about this stuff.
Now an analogy dealing with HDMI / Gold vs. Silver
There is no racial undertones in this analogy but I felt human beings are the best comparison I could make. If my mother sent me a letter in the mail, when the postman is en-route to deliver it, it doesn't matter what color skin is wrapped around the mailman or what gender he/she is. It doesn't matter if they were sick the day of my delivery and replaced by another worker of a different race. The letter will be delivered inevitably and regardless anything. HDMI is a delivery medium like a mailman to deliver integrated audio/video to its destination. As long as it gets there is all that matters. Question, what does gold and silver have to do with the delivery of the binary 1s and 0s? Answer, absolutely nothing. Digital is digital. My absolute shortest possible answer for all your questions is, either it works or it doesn't. With A/V cables it mattered because it was analog (and yes I used Monster then), with digital nothing changes.
Do I need 120 Hertz HDMI cables?
No you don't, another gimmick just to take your money. "There is no such thing." I don't know if Amazon accepts external weblinks so I will tell you what to Google search to find the complete end all article on this topic. The website name is Audioholics dot com and the article name is "Do I Need 120 Hertz HDMI Cables?"
Prices
Even though the Sony cables are reasonably priced in the HDMI cable market, they are still overpriced. My cables I bought in Japan were in a bargain bin and I paid ¥400 (US $4.00) for approximately a 15 inch cable. The packaging was plastic wrap and the only thing written on it was the length of the cable and a UPC code. No brand/company name, address, anything else printed on the package or the cables. I had no qualms about buying it because I knew 100% it would perform exactly the same as the top end cables. The price only changed due to cable length, the shorter and longer cables being $2.00 and $8.00 respectively.
Driving in a straight line / Cable Length
You're a celebrity driving in your McLaren F1 supercar. Top speed 240mph (386kph). You drag race it in a straight line and redline it, you are still pretty safe. You try to turn a corner at top speed though and you're dead. The only thing that could "potentially" affect an HDMI cable's quality is the cable length. The shorter the cable the better. When a cable is short and straight the path that the data travels down is more direct and safer. When it is longer and starts to curl and curve it gets more dangerous and there is the possibility that the signal could break up a little bit at times. But really even it doesn't matter so much because those chances for data loss are slim, which is why I used the words "potentially" and "possibility".
Final answer
The cheapest cable is the same, buy it. I took the guess work out of everything for you guys, hope you appreciate it. Remember shop smarter, not harder.
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