Anthony G Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Meritline (which I have never purchased from) has 3-Pack of 6 Feet HDMI v1.3 Cable with support for 720P and 1080P True HD Resolution for HDTV, PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360 for $9 with free shipping. Not that great of a deal, boy have these HDMI cables dropped in price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 HDMi cables have been pretty cheap for a long time. Bought a load of them a while back at monoprice when they had a discount sale. For $3 a cable or so. Usually around $4 on there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnemaEms Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 I've just been picking them up off of Amazon for about $3 a piece. -Dean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony G Posted January 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Is there anything special about these? I picked them up from Amazon as well once I went HD with my TV's. I chose to spend $7 thinking they must be better than the $3 ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 A digital signal is either on or off, there's no in-between like with an analog signal. Granted, build quality is still something to look for, but in no way does that mean spending $100 for a 3 foot Monster cable is a good idea. The cables I've bought from Amazon and Monoprice have all worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMonkey Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 :wub Monoprice great customer service reputation if you get a bad cable or have a problem too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHiL Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 My father in law just bought a bunch of cables on monoprice.. He was shocked to see the price of hdmi cables compared to the ones he saw at circuit city today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James T Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 So all HDMI cables are the same? There's no such thing as 1.3 HDMI cable? My friend was going to pick up a cheap one, but he decided against it, b/c the box made mention of only 720p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertA Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 A digital signal is either on or off, there's no in-between like with an analog signal. Unfortunately it ain't that simple Buck. These are "raw" digital signals being transmitted and the quality of the cable does make a tremendous difference since the clocking rate is so high. That's not to say monster's cable price is justified at all, in fact audioholics has shown that monoprices cables have beat them! ha ha.... There's many artifacts that result when you start having bit errors in the stream,temporary noise when sync is lost, flashing pink frames, sparkles, corrupted lines... etc, etc. There's an incredible amount of error correction done at the source and receiving ends that you would think you are writing modem code. ames, just buy the cable from monoprice.com. I have a 30 feet version and have no problems at all. And there is such thing as supporting the FULL HDMI 1.3 specification which would be 3.4Gbit/s BUT NO SILICON or devices support that at all, so unless you want to be future proof for some future products, then you shouldn't care. Here's some reading: http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/hdmi-1-3-cables-bitrate http://www.audioholics.com/education/cables/long-hdmi-cable-bench-tests Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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