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Monster’s MC 500HD boasts corrosion-resistant 24k gold contacts.
The topic of cables can get quite heated. Add Monster into the mix, and it often gets downright frightening.
Now Monster wants to cushion some of those blows, by offering an entry-level HDMI cable option. The MC 500HD is priced at $49.95 (for 1 meter), which is comparable to many of the lower range products you’d find in stores.
The move is part of Monster’s plan to widen distribution with a lower-priced alternative.
“We now offer a wide variety of cable at price points and performance levels for virtually every need and budget, from the MC 500 HD for people who simply want to enjoy the best quality from today’s high-def products to MC1000HD for those who want 100 percent assurance that they’ll also be able to enjoy the optimum performance from all in the future pipeline as well,” says Noel Lee, company founder. “With our MC 500HD value-priced line, we’re also giving our retailers what they’ve been asking for, namely, a lower-priced, high-quality cable that will provide complete satisfaction to their discriminating customers—at a price everyone can afford.”
Aside from the new cable, TheRetailBRIDGE.com says that Monster is adding in-store displays and education materials boasting the benefits of HDMI.
I have used many cables from Monoprice…. HDMI 25ft, vga 25ft, RGB 25 ft. autid from 3 ft to 50.
Their cables are well made with the ferrit beads for HF filtering and noise. I also am impressed witht he quality of the connectors, jacketing, overall construction of their cables.
I bet NOONE can beat their price/quality.
Monster is VERY over priced…. LOVES the suckers that have more money than sense and pay too much for about the same thing that Monoprice charges for their equipment.
What a joke!!!!!
Any videophile knows the real meaning of his words:
“We now offer exactly the same cable at different price points with different names for virtually every sucker, be him poor or rich, from the MC 500 HD for people who simply want to enjoy the bragging rights of having a Monster cable to MC1000HD for those obsessive-compulsive who want 100 percent assurance that every 1 and 0 is still a 1 or 0 at the other end of the cable and want to make sure that when 2160p video arrives, they’ll also be able to enjoy the optimum performance from all in the future pipeline as well”
nothing a set of componet cables can’t fix
Not all cable connectors are the same. The better cable connector is sure to have better contacting. I work for OPPO and often use a HDMI analyzer to test HDMI cables, even Monoprice asked us to help to test their cables before. I found that there is no difference for short cable; however for long cables the quality varies (dropping bit). If you need to use 25ft or longer cable, you’d better to use high quality cable.
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I just read an HDMI cable shoot-out conducted at Monster Cable headquarters. It was published by Audioholiocs. Long story, short: the MonoPrice cables flat-out matched the very expensive Monster cable bit for bit. The Monster cable was approx. $200, the MonoPrice cable was about $30.
Only a fool would buy the Monster cable knowing this…
One other thing, Monster is trying to bullly Blue Jeans Cable claiming they’ve infringed on some Monster proprietary technology. The owner of BJC is an ex-trial trail lawyer and he isn’t caving in. He has called their bluff, look it up on Audioholocs or Google, VERY interesting subject…
Rock on BJC!!
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