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12-31-2009, 06:03 PM
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#27 | | RS controls my life!
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+1 Monoprice is awesome!!
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01-02-2010, 06:20 PM
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#28 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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You get what you paid for......simple as that
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01-02-2010, 06:44 PM
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#29 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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01-03-2010, 12:43 AM
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#30 | | I don't get it
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brought a 10 foot 1 for $7 at elegancecomputers the other day
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01-03-2010, 07:35 AM
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#31 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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got ncix to price match bestdirect
10ft cable for $9.99
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01-03-2010, 12:31 PM
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#32 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by ime2006 You get what you paid for......simple as that | When it comes to short hdmi cables paying more for a brand name isn't so smart Posted via RS Mobile | 
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01-03-2010, 12:45 PM
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#33 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by ime2006 You get what you paid for......simple as that | ^^ Someone who probably got fooled into buy an expensive cable
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01-03-2010, 02:58 PM
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#34 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp ^^ Someone who probably got fooled into buy an expensive cable | i m not sasying, it has to be expensive to get quality.
As long as you can get good price online anywhere with same grades of cable. Its all good.
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01-03-2010, 10:56 PM
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#35 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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there is no "grades of cable" when buying HDMI. Image quality is going to be the same whether you use a $5 cable or $50 cable, and as mentioned earlier even the el cheapo cables have sufficient shielding so really, why spend money on Monster?
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01-03-2010, 11:16 PM
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#36 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by Valour I bought on craigslist. 35 footer for ....$45!!! There's this guy that I guess makes his own. | No one in North America has the equipment to terminate HDMI cables so no HDMI cables are made in North America. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articl...-come-from.htm
We are confident that, at this date, there is no manufacturer who makes HDMI cable and terminates HDMI cable assemblies in the United States; but anyone who has information to the contrary is welcome to prove us wrong.
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01-04-2010, 01:11 AM
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#37 | | 14 dolla balla & Bradford Chow aint got nothing on me!
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Monster cables are better, specially when the distance is greater than 1m. http://gizmodo.com/268788/the-truth-...keep-upusually | |
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01-04-2010, 11:30 PM
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#38 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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There are way better cable than Monster HDMI.
You guys never know....
And, HDMI they do have different in grades.
Usually, 2~4M HDMI, cheap one will do pretty good.
over 6M or Longer.........some cheap ones might survive, but most of them fail.
My own experience, 10M HDMI bought from Anitec, for $45 dollars.
Going through the Wall from Living Room into my Room.
Cant even get to 1080P RES, and Snowing all over the screen.
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01-05-2010, 07:57 AM
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#39 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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I can only go from what I experience. I've been running a 25' HDMI cable in wall/ceiling from my receiver to my projector that I purchased from monoprice for the last 2 years and I have ZERO issues it at all. The same goes for all the smaller cables going from my receiver to my cable box, DVD Player ect, all work great. It's totally not worth buying brand name cables, no noticeable difference.
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01-05-2010, 08:43 AM
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#40 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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01-05-2010, 03:02 PM
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#41 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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monoprice and N-gear cables have served me well so far. No experience with Monster tho
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01-06-2010, 12:11 AM
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#42 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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nGear for the win!
inexpensive and reliable. highly recommended
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01-06-2010, 08:16 AM
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#43 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by ime2006 There are way better cable than Monster HDMI.
You guys never know....
And, HDMI they do have different in grades.
Usually, 2~4M HDMI, cheap one will do pretty good.
over 6M or Longer.........some cheap ones might survive, but most of them fail.
My own experience, 10M HDMI bought from Anitec, for $45 dollars.
Going through the Wall from Living Room into my Room.
Cant even get to 1080P RES, and Snowing all over the screen. | Pretty sure you can't get "snow" or typical noise from a digital source. You either get the picture or don't. The different grades are simply ratings, as long as the cable is spec'd to say HDMI 1.3, and isn't stupid long, any cable will do. As far as not getting 1080p, I'm pretty sure you just don't know how to set your stuff up, or your source isn't capable of 1080p.
My experience: I bought a $10 cable from Superstore because I needed it right away and $10 is actually a reasonable price. I've been using it for 4 months now and constantly moving it to connect to other PS3's or 360's, it still works perfectly.
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01-06-2010, 08:52 AM
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#44 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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^ yup all hdmi cables are the same regardless of price, anyone trying to tell you otherwise is trying to rip you off
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01-06-2010, 09:03 PM
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#45 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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how about hdmi to vga
i googled, there is such a cable
where to get it?
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01-06-2010, 09:43 PM
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#46 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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yes, but you need very special equipment to use it, you can't just slap that on anything and make it work. before you ask why, it's because HDMI (and DVI too) are digital standards, they use 1's and 0's to send data. VGA is analog, so it uses waveforms to send information. This is also why VGA can get noise/distortion depending on the cable quality and length more easily than HDMI/DVI where it is quite difficult.
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01-06-2010, 10:34 PM
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#47 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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its all on the receiver to convert an analog signal to digital
sucks that i cant play my Wii on my projector 
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01-06-2010, 11:46 PM
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#48 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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People who think they need monster cables for long hdmi runs are crazy, HDMI cables like any cable (digital or analog) can only carry a signal so far depending on specs of signal and gauge of cable. In the case of digital signals theres no way you get snow effect like somepeople claim in this thread, what happens is the reliability of the signal lowers you'll either get it or not.
You'll notice that longer cables on monoprice come in 22AWG thats because if you up the gauge, you reduce attenuation. Simply put 22AWG will carry that signal farther than 24AWG. At the same time the range of HDMI 1.0 vs 1.3 (340MHz) will be very different with 1.3 signals not going very far.
Better solutions like HDMI extenders via Ethernet (Cat6) http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...9487&CatId=466
$65 + 2x cheap cat6 cables 80ft = win 
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01-07-2010, 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by underscore Pretty sure you can't get "snow" or typical noise from a digital source. You either get the picture or don't. The different grades are simply ratings, as long as the cable is spec'd to say HDMI 1.3, and isn't stupid long, any cable will do. As far as not getting 1080p, I'm pretty sure you just don't know how to set your stuff up, or your source isn't capable of 1080p.
My experience: I bought a $10 cable from Superstore because I needed it right away and $10 is actually a reasonable price. I've been using it for 4 months now and constantly moving it to connect to other PS3's or 360's, it still works perfectly. | Snow, artifacts, and the like shouldn't be possible with digital connectors. However, the build quality may differ slightly. Yes, it's just a cable tapped into a connector, but I've seen brand new out of the box digital cables crap out on either sound or video (and often both). I've had an HDMI and a 4-6 pin firewire cable do both on me. Sometimes you do get what you pay for. I will never advocate buying a Monster Cable from FS/BB, but sometimes those cheap cables will cut out.
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01-07-2010, 09:23 AM
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#50 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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^ this is true, you usually don't want to get the absolute cheapest one, but one slightly up from that is usually good.
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