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		<title>By: Ryko</title>
		<link>http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/the-rip1/comment-page-3/#comment-47906</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Monoprice is prob the best place on the web to buy HDMI cables.

This is still not as bad as exspensive speaker wire, which can cost well over $100 per foot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Monoprice is prob the best place on the web to buy HDMI cables.</p>
<p>This is still not as bad as exspensive speaker wire, which can cost well over $100 per foot.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Van</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Van</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ha!

I once heard a rumor that a blind audio quality test was performed--one set of speakers was connected to the audio source through a metal hanger, and one set of speakers was connected with top-line Monster cables.  The result: no-one could tell the difference.  And that was an analog connection, where it&#039;s not simply bits or no bits.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ha!</p>
<p>I once heard a rumor that a blind audio quality test was performed&#8211;one set of speakers was connected to the audio source through a metal hanger, and one set of speakers was connected with top-line Monster cables.  The result: no-one could tell the difference.  And that was an analog connection, where it&#8217;s not simply bits or no bits.</p>
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		<title>By: Dumpster</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dumpster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a computer engineer (not just bachelors but a rapetastic masters)

I laugh at anyone who buys monster cables, or anything other &quot;high end&quot; cable. 50 footer is one thing, but any 3$ 3 foot hdmi cable will work just fine. 

Despite what the morons on here who are going on and on about &quot;i sell big systems, and these cables are awesome!&quot;

Lets all remember they are making money off americans thinking they need those expensive cables. 

You want to buy expensive component cables, by all means do so (still dont buy monster)

But buying an expensive digital cable, is quite possibly one of the stupidest things you can do. 

Don&#039;t take advice from someone who is selling home theater systems. 

Take advice from the engineers, websites, reviewers of the industry, and really anyone who knowa ANYTHING about how computers and digital age works. 


I mean really, where the hell are you running your lines that your getting bad enough interfernce on your HDMI that it causes problems? You got that cable wrapped around a fan in your window? Got it running behind the main electricty for the house?

Perhaps you&#039;ve managed to snake that cable around a super conducting electromagnet at the local Particle accelerator? 

People who are installing theater systems are glorified plumbers, they know less about how the equipment works than the engineers who designed it. 

Oh, and any interference you have will NOT result in the wrong colors, not even close champs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a computer engineer (not just bachelors but a rapetastic masters)</p>
<p>I laugh at anyone who buys monster cables, or anything other &#8220;high end&#8221; cable. 50 footer is one thing, but any 3$ 3 foot hdmi cable will work just fine. </p>
<p>Despite what the morons on here who are going on and on about &#8220;i sell big systems, and these cables are awesome!&#8221;</p>
<p>Lets all remember they are making money off americans thinking they need those expensive cables. </p>
<p>You want to buy expensive component cables, by all means do so (still dont buy monster)</p>
<p>But buying an expensive digital cable, is quite possibly one of the stupidest things you can do. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t take advice from someone who is selling home theater systems. </p>
<p>Take advice from the engineers, websites, reviewers of the industry, and really anyone who knowa ANYTHING about how computers and digital age works. </p>
<p>I mean really, where the hell are you running your lines that your getting bad enough interfernce on your HDMI that it causes problems? You got that cable wrapped around a fan in your window? Got it running behind the main electricty for the house?</p>
<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve managed to snake that cable around a super conducting electromagnet at the local Particle accelerator? </p>
<p>People who are installing theater systems are glorified plumbers, they know less about how the equipment works than the engineers who designed it. </p>
<p>Oh, and any interference you have will NOT result in the wrong colors, not even close champs.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, setting up &#039;tests&#039; like that should be illegal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, setting up &#8216;tests&#8217; like that should be illegal.</p>
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		<title>By: headzeppelin</title>
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		<dc:creator>headzeppelin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.roger-russell.com/wire/wire.htm

This was a very interesting website I had looked at before I bought the speaker wire for my own home.  #12 lamp cord should be about all you need, and it costs significantly less than any speaker wire sold in stores like BB and CC.</description>
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<p>This was a very interesting website I had looked at before I bought the speaker wire for my own home.  #12 lamp cord should be about all you need, and it costs significantly less than any speaker wire sold in stores like BB and CC.</p>
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		<title>By: video guy</title>
		<link>http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/the-rip1/comment-page-2/#comment-47527</link>
		<dc:creator>video guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can get the same cables without going to bestbuy and paying there ridiculous costs. The differences are important and essential. Get what&#039;s right for what you&#039;re trying to do, just don&#039;t waste your money buying a cable. Shop around, read specifications or &#039;go broke&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can get the same cables without going to bestbuy and paying there ridiculous costs. The differences are important and essential. Get what&#8217;s right for what you&#8217;re trying to do, just don&#8217;t waste your money buying a cable. Shop around, read specifications or &#8216;go broke&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: video guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>video guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i worked as a technician for a major cable company. The HDMI cables we gave away were about $7 to $10 in store. The HDMI cables I replaced were more often the more expensive. In my experience, even the expensive RCA cables snug the ports too tight for the normal consumer which leads to pushing up and down and damaging RCA ports. The HDMI cables, which is the concern, have no noticeable difference in quality. The more expensive ones usually don&#039;t have as much flexibility. Shop TigerDirect.com or Frys Electronics, BestBuy won&#039;t compete with their sell prices for a reason.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i worked as a technician for a major cable company. The HDMI cables we gave away were about $7 to $10 in store. The HDMI cables I replaced were more often the more expensive. In my experience, even the expensive RCA cables snug the ports too tight for the normal consumer which leads to pushing up and down and damaging RCA ports. The HDMI cables, which is the concern, have no noticeable difference in quality. The more expensive ones usually don&#8217;t have as much flexibility. Shop TigerDirect.com or Frys Electronics, BestBuy won&#8217;t compete with their sell prices for a reason.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeremy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not just HDMI cables. Standard RCA cables or any cable for that matter has skyrocketed in price and that&#039;s just for something basic. I remember being able to go into RadioShack or Walmart and getting a 2-foot audio/video RCA cable for a couple dollars. Now, the lowest cost one I can find out there is $15! No gas-injected and no gold-plated; just a standard freakin&#039; cable. Yes, that&#039;s where I love Amazon whereas I can get a cable for cheap such as the HDMI for a few bucks. I remember Walmart sold one for ten bucks flat but haven&#039;t seen it around for awhile. I stocked up on a few of those and they were 12 foot cables! For a reply to, &quot;T&quot;, who sells the first series anymore? Homeowner&#039;s insurance, depends where you live. If it&#039;s properly installed, it doesn&#039;t void it. Seriously, stick with upmarking your services and cables and leave everything else to people that know what they&#039;re talking about. Steve, you had a split in your cable, a bad cable. HDMI cables cannot be bent around constantly like a standard USB or RCA one. The wires do break easily. Had the same problem as I spent a lot of money on my first HDMI cable as I was fooled like the rest. I took it back, exchanged it and the new one worked. You just probably had a bad cable. These DO exist, even with the Monster Brand. Another story, another day. Just know I was out $180 and that was just for component cables at the time. You should&#039;ve exchanged your cable. Heck, I have a cheap USB cable I got from Hong Kong with a phone I&#039;ve purchase (Motorola Ming) and this is probably the cheapest you will ever see. Probably full of lead. Point is, it still transfers data at the rate any bigger brand USB would. It&#039;s the same thing with HDMI: It&#039;s just DIGITAL data transfer. There&#039;s nothing more going on. There was a time when it did make sense to go on a higher end and that was with analog. Not anymore. Whoever is complaining that they actually hear or see a difference between high end and low end, spend all your money on that. That&#039;s up to you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not just HDMI cables. Standard RCA cables or any cable for that matter has skyrocketed in price and that&#8217;s just for something basic. I remember being able to go into RadioShack or Walmart and getting a 2-foot audio/video RCA cable for a couple dollars. Now, the lowest cost one I can find out there is $15! No gas-injected and no gold-plated; just a standard freakin&#8217; cable. Yes, that&#8217;s where I love Amazon whereas I can get a cable for cheap such as the HDMI for a few bucks. I remember Walmart sold one for ten bucks flat but haven&#8217;t seen it around for awhile. I stocked up on a few of those and they were 12 foot cables! For a reply to, &#8220;T&#8221;, who sells the first series anymore? Homeowner&#8217;s insurance, depends where you live. If it&#8217;s properly installed, it doesn&#8217;t void it. Seriously, stick with upmarking your services and cables and leave everything else to people that know what they&#8217;re talking about. Steve, you had a split in your cable, a bad cable. HDMI cables cannot be bent around constantly like a standard USB or RCA one. The wires do break easily. Had the same problem as I spent a lot of money on my first HDMI cable as I was fooled like the rest. I took it back, exchanged it and the new one worked. You just probably had a bad cable. These DO exist, even with the Monster Brand. Another story, another day. Just know I was out $180 and that was just for component cables at the time. You should&#8217;ve exchanged your cable. Heck, I have a cheap USB cable I got from Hong Kong with a phone I&#8217;ve purchase (Motorola Ming) and this is probably the cheapest you will ever see. Probably full of lead. Point is, it still transfers data at the rate any bigger brand USB would. It&#8217;s the same thing with HDMI: It&#8217;s just DIGITAL data transfer. There&#8217;s nothing more going on. There was a time when it did make sense to go on a higher end and that was with analog. Not anymore. Whoever is complaining that they actually hear or see a difference between high end and low end, spend all your money on that. That&#8217;s up to you.</p>
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		<title>By: ted</title>
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		<dc:creator>ted</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i saw this when working at compusa. the $50 usb cable you buy really only cost the company 3-5. So stick to the cheap ones.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i saw this when working at compusa. the $50 usb cable you buy really only cost the company 3-5. So stick to the cheap ones.</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When I went from a computer monitor to a television for my monitor, I bought a cheap HDMI cable to hook it up.  Playing Madden, I noticed a slight delay which in most games is crucial.  First I thought it was the TV and the response and was dissappointed because I couldn&#039;t really change that.  I do have a plasma though which is supposed to have good reaction.  I took the cable back and went with a supposed better quality one with more speed, not Monster, and tried it.  To my surprise the delay was gone.  Both cables were 6ft.  So, like I say the picture quality didn&#039;t appear to be different and for anyone just watching movies I suppose they&#039;ll never know the difference, but if you&#039;re playing games you might want to consider a slightly better cable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I went from a computer monitor to a television for my monitor, I bought a cheap HDMI cable to hook it up.  Playing Madden, I noticed a slight delay which in most games is crucial.  First I thought it was the TV and the response and was dissappointed because I couldn&#8217;t really change that.  I do have a plasma though which is supposed to have good reaction.  I took the cable back and went with a supposed better quality one with more speed, not Monster, and tried it.  To my surprise the delay was gone.  Both cables were 6ft.  So, like I say the picture quality didn&#8217;t appear to be different and for anyone just watching movies I suppose they&#8217;ll never know the difference, but if you&#8217;re playing games you might want to consider a slightly better cable.</p>
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