Just got a new TV, with HDMI plugs, so can anyone recommend me a good HDMI cable for my PS3? Thanks.

The absolute cheapest one you can find. I suggest buying from monoprice. Actually, I'll save you time. Buy any cable from this page and you'll be set for life:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10243

That's fine but you can go even cheaper.

That one's for in-wall installation so I think it has some kind of reinforced jacket (to avoid getting kinked I suppose) which you probably don't need for your home setup. You can save $2 and just get this baby: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10243&cs_id=1024007&p_id=3871&seq=1&format=2

Or you can get a monster cable and have top quality and actually have it guaranteed for life.

Yeah, I decided to go with the second one linked, thanks a bunch!

Good choice I guess.

"Or you can get a monster cable and have top quality and actually have it guaranteed for life.
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"Yeah, I decided to go with the second one linked, thanks a bunch!
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Yeah I agree with Dissolve it makes more sense to go cheap with HDMI.

Disolved is correct.  HDMI is a digital signal and high price cables are not worth buying.  Digital is digital.

The only time you will need to pay more is when you want an unusually long cable, at which point you would want components that are a bit better than bottom of the line stuff.  Otherwise for local wiring as long as the cable is built ok and not lose or falling apart, that will give you the same picture and sound as one 5x the price.

If you see weird static twinkles over the picture, known as sparklies, then you know the cable is not carrying a signal properly.  Just so you know.

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"Or you can get a monster cable and have top quality and actually have it guaranteed for life.
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Or you can just buy another $3 generic brand if your first one breaks and not spend UNGODLY amounts of money on Monster's overpriced HDMI cables (which give the same picture quality as the cheapest HDMI cable gives).
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"Dissolve said:

"LiquidPrince said:

"Or you can get a monster cable and have top quality and actually have it guaranteed for life.
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Or you can just buy another $3 generic brand if your first one breaks and not spend UNGODLY amounts of money on Monster's overpriced HDMI cables (which give the same picture quality as the cheapest HDMI cable gives).
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Actually there are slight differences in picture quality depending on cables. Also I get my cables cheap because I have connections. =P
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"LiquidPrince said:

"Dissolve said:

"LiquidPrince said:

"Or you can get a monster cable and have top quality and actually have it guaranteed for life.
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Or you can just buy another $3 generic brand if your first one breaks and not spend UNGODLY amounts of money on Monster's overpriced HDMI cables (which give the same picture quality as the cheapest HDMI cable gives).
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Actually there are slight differences in picture quality depending on cables. Also I get my cables cheap because I have connections. =P
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There really is not.  Many signal measurement tests have been done on this topic, the difference is only going to be over long distances where a cable made of poor parts can not provide the full bandwidth or suffers signal degradation.

Anything else is just delusional justification of spending more.
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Degradation of the physical object is understandable, although most people will not move them around much over their life.  Distortion certainly is possible, but that tends to be a case of the cable being very long and degradation of signal, meaning the same as any loss of digital signal, artifacting etc.

But softer image?  That sounds highly questionable as how can a cable modify the digital signal?  It is a case of on and off, digital.  Softer image over analogue I can understand, but this?

"Degradation of the physical object is understandable, although most people will not move them around much over their life.  Distortion certainly is possible, but that tends to be a case of the cable being very long and degradation of signal, meaning the same as any loss of digital signal, artifacting etc.

But softer image?  That sounds highly questionable as how can a cable modify the digital signal?  It is a case of on and off, digital.  Softer image over analogue I can understand, but this?
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I suppose the best way to look at it then is simply - like with everything else - never buy anything that looks like it was built with spit and tape ;)

Anything above should suffice.

One thing I'd recommend looking out for is the version of the HDMI. Version 1.3 can handle both Audio and video (the ps3 supports it) but if you have a TV and/or  hdmi cable with 1.2 or below then you'll get video only.

"I suppose the best way to look at it then is simply - like with everything else - never buy anything that looks like it was built with spit and tape ;)

Anything above should suffice.
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"The absolute cheapest one you can find. I suggest buying from monoprice. Actually, I'll save you time. Buy any cable from this page and you'll be set for life:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10243
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I've been looking at monoprice lately as well for cables, and was wondering: how is this 6ft one (I would buy the 3ft one, but it might be a little short)? http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10243&cs_id=1024008&p_id=3992&seq=1&format=2 I'm assuming 6ft is still short enough to get good picture quality from a cheap cable?

I have a 10-footer and it's perfect.


The only time you need to start worrying about cable length is when you're getting like 50 feet or more, even then, a well-built HDMI cable (like you'd find on monoprice for cheap) will not degrade at all - because it's friggin' digital and not analog.

"That's fine but you can go even cheaper.

That one's for in-wall installation so I think it has some kind of reinforced jacket (to avoid getting kinked I suppose) which you probably don't need for your home setup. You can save $2 and just get this baby: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10243&cs_id=1024007&p_id=3871&seq=1&format=2


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