http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/
btw the cables I got are fabulous - and i'm quite the videophile]]>Nov 28th 2007 5:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/Nov 28th 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/Nov 28th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/Nov 28th 2007 6:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/Nov 28th 2007 6:30PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/(Yes I know I'm being picky, but I do installs).
Since I do installations, I do not go with the higher-priced cabling unless the client wants them, instead I spend more labour time on the actual install to make sure all is connected and working properly for the client, meeting expectations.
The only time I get more pricey with cabling is when it is a fast-install and my impatient client is demanding it quick for the install and I have no wait time allotment for the on-line (less expensive) cabling.
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Netgear actually uses an HDMI connector for 20GBps stacking connections between some of their gigabit ethernet switches. I have been using $8-12 2-4 meter HDMI cables to stack them between racks and guess what? The link speed is 20GBps, and zero packet loss. Sounds like enough bandwidth for 1080P to me......]]>Nov 29th 2007 9:37AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/
(disclaimer: not all Best Buy employees know more about what they ate for lunch than home theater equipment)

Anyway, I've never had a cable fail. The only way a cable can fail is if the connector comes loose or you get some sort of corrosion. I've still got RCA cables that I took off of a 1970's stereo system that work fine. The speaker wire from my Grandfathers 1950's HI-FI still works fine.

I bought a cheap $5 HDMI cable from Newegg and it didn't work. I sent them an e-mail and they just refunded my money and told me to throw the cable away. I bought a $7 cable from Monoprice and it worked fine. I took the connector jacekt off of the broken cable and say that one of the wires wasn't connected to the HDMI connector. I fixed it and the cable works fine. SO yeah sometimes if you buy a $5 cable it might not work but it still beats paying $125 for a cable that cost less than $5 to make.

The frickin packaging for Monster Cables cost more than the actual cables, THAT IS ACTUALLY THE TRUTH. ]]>Nov 29th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/
I had a Monster S-Video cable (Bought it on clearance for $10, ok!?) that I carried around in a backback, wound up, not tightly, nothing crazy, and it broke. I had to pay for shipping back to Monster, but at least they sent a new one expedited, no questions asked!

But even then, for the price of a Monster Cable, if your regular, cheap cable breaks, two of them still won't cost as much as a Monster.]]>Nov 29th 2007 6:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/11/28/report-reminds-us-dont-get-burned-by-overpriced-cables/My thoughts exactly, actually just wrote about this in my blog yesterday..
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