When I got my PS3, I remember seeing deals advertising a bundle where you get a blu-ray and a HDMI cable for half price, £50, then I talked to the guy at the counter and he sold me one for £4 which worked perfectly.
Pretty much everything on amazon.ca. That site fucking sucks. Amazon never has any stock, but there seems to always be some asshole selling $20-$60 games for like $150+
Lol, digital signal is digital and should all be quite similar for the series, like all 1.3 should be similar and all hdmi 1.4. Which means if you buy a cheap cable, you only have to worry it's not a flimsy piece of junk because the signal should be quite similar.
@HandsomeDead: Yep, my 99 cent cable is as good as any HDMI cable out there. Its a digital signal, it doesn't matter if the cable is encrusted with diamonds...its going to be the same quality picture.
The HDMI cable that is currently connected into my PS3 was about... 10-15 bucks? HDMI cables at normal stores are grossly overpriced but this is just sad.
yeah, it's over 9,000 times more expensive than anything. i laughed at that. it's to expensive for a thing like that. there are brands that are only like $5. it's how much i spent on $5 a HDMI that i don't use.
@Raven_Sword: monoprice is the way to go. I haven't bought a cable in a brick and mortar store since I discovered that site. It's crazy what the mark up is on stuff like that.
" @HandsomeDead: Yep, my 99 cent cable is as good as any HDMI cable out there. Its a digital signal, it doesn't matter if the cable is encrusted with diamonds...its going to be the same quality picture. "
Is it weird that I imagine a black guy holding an HDMI cable saying "look away, look back at me, THE CABLE IS NOW ENCRUSTED IN DIAMONDS"
Yeah, monster likes to overcharge. An HDMI cable from ebay for $0.50 will work just as well as a million-dollar diamond-studded HDMI cable from Monster only you'll also have enough money left over for a house to use your console in.
It's actually a pretty smart move, because at those prices you only need a handful of people who are retarded enough to buy something like that and you're set.
You do realize that not everything is created for consumers, correct? 35 feet has the professional in mind NOT the dude trying to connect to his PS3; unless he want to have it run from the other room...
I got all of my HDMI cables for 21 cents each off Amazon. They are of the highest quality, and I never realized how much these companies rip you off on their prices.
My brother works at Best Buy... His employee prices are something like 125% of what the store paid for them originally. He generally gets $30 cables for around $3. So yeah, cables are a rip-off in general.
You should check out a company called Siltech, they trade cables for crazy money.
Siltech Emperor Crown Speaker Cable
The Emperor Crown speaker cables are the best I have ever heard in the systems used for the listening tests. Their sonic attribute engraved itself with the combination tried for the listening tests and refined all the important elements for which audiophiles and music lovers strive. The list includes, among other things, resolution, smoothness, imaging, air, texture, body and, most importantly, a very high degree of neutrality, which allows a rather clear audition of a system’s hardware. This is a good thing, though it can be dangerous as the cable exposes all imperfections of speakers and electronics. I like the metal cable supports and careful auditions showed that floor vibration, usually caused by the loudspeakers’ bass energy, does deteriorate resolution and spatial elements, if only by a diminutive extent.
This little fucker will set you back about $40k every 2 meters, though the guy who wrote this review makes it sound like sex to the ear.
I bought two HDMI cables from Amazon like two years ago for a buck. I can't imagine spending so much rent/food/bill money on something that is probably mostly only cosmetically better. There might be legit reasons it's higher quality buuuut...dude. Even if I had to replace a cable every day for a YEAR it still wouldn't be that much. Never worth it.
You should check out a company called Siltech, they trade cables for crazy money.
Siltech Emperor Crown Speaker Cable
The Emperor Crown speaker cables are the best I have ever heard in the systems used for the listening tests. Their sonic attribute engraved itself with the combination tried for the listening tests and refined all the important elements for which audiophiles and music lovers strive. The list includes, among other things, resolution, smoothness, imaging, air, texture, body and, most importantly, a very high degree of neutrality, which allows a rather clear audition of a system’s hardware. This is a good thing, though it can be dangerous as the cable exposes all imperfections of speakers and electronics. I like the metal cable supports and careful auditions showed that floor vibration, usually caused by the loudspeakers’ bass energy, does deteriorate resolution and spatial elements, if only by a diminutive extent.
This little fucker will set you back about $40k every 2 meters, though the guy who wrote this review makes it sound like sex to the ear.
Expensive cables are expensive.
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I checked those guys out, went to their webshop; they sell chopsticks made out of pure silver and gold. That may be the greatest thing ever. An A/V cable company that will sell you chopsticks.
Man, I can't even remember how many times a storeclerk has tried to push a 100 USD HDMI on me and my friends. The worst part about it is that some of them actually believe in that. Brb. Taking a dump in my diamondencrusted toilet with extra bandwidth capabilities
This is still a rip-off, but as I understand it those more expensive cables have value at high lengths like this, because signal degradation does start to occur in "lower quality" cables. I'm pretty sure you could get away with something that costs, you know, 50 bucks or something.
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