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| Monster HDMI 1000HD Ultra-High Speed HDMI Cable (1 meter) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Monster
Category: CE
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $49.99
You Save: $49.96 (50%)
New (31) Used (3)
Avg. Customer Rating:  97 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Size: 1 Meter
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 2.3 x 6.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty
MPN: MC 1000HD-1M
Model: MC 1000HD-1M
UPC: 050644449017
EAN: 0050644449017
ASIN: B000UF24OK
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Arrived Damaged or Defective July 23, 2008
Bought this item on sale (half price, new open-box) with great anticipation and enthusiasm. Used to connect a Denon Blu-Ray player to a Samsung LCD HDTV at 1080p. Played just fine at first watching a DVD movie, but suddenly started to "pop" and "flicker" noisily during playback. Tried reconnecting, reversing, "rebooting", everything. TV would say "no signal" intermittantly during playback after more pops and flickers, or even when DVD paused or stopped. Clearly was not getting the HDMI signals from the (brand new) Player to the (brand new) monitor. Connections seemed loose at the TV and the Player - pulled out too easily: apparently undersized or worn out. Suspect it was previously used or abused, returned in original packaging, and then re-sold to me. Shame.
Ended up purchasing a next-step-up (top of the line) Monster cable (gold M1000 HDMI) ... much tighter, firmer fit, robust. Problems solved immediately. Returning this one for refund.
Lesson learned - do not buy used "like new" or "open box" Monster Cables, regardless of assumed quality, or be prepared for disappointment. They are still expensive, but worthless if someone already "tested" it and ruined it and then returned it. Even a Monster cable can have or develop defects, or be damaged with abuse. Regardless of what happened to it, the sample I purchased as "like new" and tried to use was NOT up to Monster expectations and price, and performed extremely poorly - had me thinking something was wrong with the $3000 TV and/or $1500 Blu Ray. Well nigh caused a panic.
Why stint on the cable? July 15, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well I can't really say that these are any easier to use than other cables. It would be silly to say they are better looking.
What I will say is, I spent $1200 on a 1080p HDTV. I bought an upscaling DVD player. All with the intention of seeing the best picture possible.
So would it make sense to get some $12 discount cables?
If you want a good system, make sure you buy a cable that will pass the signal. Look at the specs, you can't go wrong with a monster.
 This is the one to buy July 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought 2 new HDTVs at a national chain. I bought two cables with the HDTVs. Needed 3 more (DVD players). Same cables, and saved a mountain of $$$$. Cables work great at 1080i and 1080p speeds! These are the cables to get and AMAZON is the place to get them. Cables work great!
Monster HDMI 1000HD June 30, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
SLightly Pricy but picture quality is beyond outstanding. With the lifetime guarantee it is the last HDMI cable you will ever need to buy!
Great cable, but too pricy June 23, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an excellent cable that appears to be very sturdy and provides flawless service with a high performance Blu-Ray/HDTV combination (Panasonic DMP BD30/Samsung LN52a750). There are no deficiencies whatsoever that I have found in the performance or construction of the (1000 series) Monster cable. It is also a very nice-looking cable.
Why only 4 stars, you may ask. Answer: the price. Even with Amazon's substantial discount, this product is overpriced. Let me share what I have read and learned about HDMI cable since I spent the 80 bucks on a Monster cable.
Many have said that an HDMI cable transfers digital information and either works, or not. This is not entirely true. It is true in the sense that you will probably either experience major problems or you will experience only subtle problems (or none) from an inferior cable. The subtle problems are likely to be irrelevant to most people unless you have a Blu-Ray player and HDTV combo capable of producing "deep color".
I would assume that the transfer of digital information through an HDMI cable is analogous to pouring water through a funnel. There is a limit to how fast you can pour water into the funnel (if you set aside the possibility of variations in gravity, black holes, time/space distortions, spout diameter, or atmospheric pressure/vacuum differentials). If you attempt to pour faster, the funnel overflows and some of the water is lost. Logically, the same should be true if a premium A/V set tries to push more bandwidth than the cable will allow. The data rates of simple static scenes and fast moving complex scenes vary substantially. This means that an inferior cable may work fine 99% of the time, but fail when the transmission rate is very high. This could result in a temporary loss of audio or video, video pixilation, audio or video skipping, or the loss of audio/video synchronization. It could also cause the HDMI to "kick down" the transmission to a lower resolution. To put it simply, you can watch "Rambo" on Blu-Ray using a cheap cable, but you might miss the best parts.
The latest specification for high-speed HDMI cable is HDMI 1.3 or better. HDMI 1.3 goes well beyond the requirements for existing equipment. There are no differences between 1.3, 1.3a, and 1.3b that are relevant to the consumer. 1.3 more than doubles the bandwidth of the previous standard (from 4.95 Gbits/s or 165 MHz to 10.2 Gbits/s or 340 MHz). It gives you the equivalent of a wider spout for the digital information to pass through as well as better support for multichannel audio.
Versions prior to HDMI 1.3 might not support:
*Super Audio CD (SACD) - A higher fidelity format than ordinary CD's
*DVD-A(udio) - This is a format for delivering very high fidelity digital audio content on a DVD. This is an audio-only format and does not include common DVD movies.
Versions prior to HDMI 1.3 do not support:
*Deep Color - Billions and billions of colors. 30 bits of color precision or greater.
*Dolby True HD - An advanced multi-channel lossless audio codec.
*Audio to Video Synchronization - Auto Lip Sync. Admittedly, if you're watching a Kung Fu movie, this won't help.
Premium cables may have better shielding, but this is unlikely to matter in common circumstances. You can certainly find cables meeting the 1.3 standard for far less than you have to pay for a Monster cable. The rap on cheaper cables is that the connectors are often less sturdy than a premium brand and fall apart. If you actually need a cable that is 1.3 compliant, you've already spent thousands of dollars on your system. Unless you are completely broke at this point, you might be more comfortable buying the cable from a manufacturer that has a reputation it must protect. Bear in mind that according to their own published specifications, only the most expensive (1000 series) Monster cable is 1.3 compliant. The good news is that you can buy the Monster cable (2meters) at Amazon for about 45% less than you would pay at Best Buy.
Having said all that, you might first want to try the bluejeanscable or monoprice websites. They seem to have happy customers and their prices are a fraction of Monster or Sony. I didn't discover these sites until after I had purchased the Monster cable. The cables they sell are HDMI 1.3 compliant and prices run about $6 to $10 for a two meter cable. Since they are certified to meet the new standard, the only potential problem might be in durability. Even if that is the case, it shouldn't be a problem unless you are frequently moving things around and pulling on the cable. If you are planning to use a long run of cable through the wall, then you certainly will want to check these sites out. Only a drunken sailor or the uninformed would spend the Monster price on a 50' cable unless it was truly necessary. You could buy a Blu-Ray player for the difference.
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