| | |  | 02 Meter & 6' | Home » » » » Monster M1000 HD-4 Ultimate High Speed HDTV HDMI Cable (4 feet) | | | | | | | Description: | | The Ultimate High Speed M Series® Cable for HDMITM Optimizes Digital Signal Transfer for the Very Best in High Definition Picture and Sound, Now and in the Future. Updated packaging with speed badges. Large gauge silver-coated conductors for superior signal transfer and ultimate high-definition video. high-density quad-layer shielding for ultimate rejection of RF and EM interference. Advanced nitrogen (N2) gas-injected dielectric ensures maximum signal strength, even over longer runs. 24k gold contacts for maximum signal transfer and corrosion resistance. 4 ft. HDMI A/V Cable - 1.22 m.The Most Advanced Connection for HDMITM Is a Monster® When you want to see and hear every detail, every nuance, without compromise, choose the best: HDMI. This digital audio/video interface does it all, delivering uncompressed 1080p/120 Hz high definition video with 12-bit Deep Color, eight channels of 192/24 digital audio for ultimate 7.1 surround sound, and an integrated control channel-all in one cable. Plus, it eliminates digital-to-analog conversion between your video sources and display for the most accurate high definition picture. Now there's finally an HDMI interconnect just as advanced- Ultimate High Speed M Series® M1000HD. Monster designs its advanced cables for HDMITM to meet and exceed the highest of HDMI standards. If the components you purchase in the future ever surpass the performance of the M1000HD you buy today, Monster will upgrade the cable absolutely free. Meeting the Demands | | | Features: | |
• Updated packaging with speed badges.
• Large gauge silver-coated conductors for superior signal transfer and ultimate high-definition video.
• Ultra high-density quad-layer shielding for ultimate rejection of RF and EM interference.
• Advanced nitrogen (N2) gas-injected dielectric ensures maximum signal strength, even over longer runs.
• 24k gold contacts for maximum signal transfer and corrosion resistance.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 48.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 1.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.71 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.48 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.65 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.71 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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345 of 388 found the following review helpful:
 FUD - a perfect exampleJan 11, 2009
By A. Dent
"Aragorn"
FUD - Fear, uncertainty, doubt.
According to Wikipedia, "the term originated to describe disinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broadly. FUD is a manifestation of the appeal to fear."
Still Wikipedia, quoting Eric S. Raymond: "The idea, of course, was to persuade buyers to go with safe [...] gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with [...], but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment [...]".
HDMI is all-digital for both sound and picture. As such, it either works or it doesn't and, when it doesn't work, you will know immediately. There's really nothing in-between. If a claim is made that the Monster is 'more reliable' or that it 'lasts longer', I can't see how such claim can be backed - does the hundred-dollar cable last 20 times longer than than the five-dollar cable? And, if it does, do we REALLY care that a cable supporting a standard that may be obsolete in 5 years COULD last for 100 years?
By the way, I do not challenge the claim of high quality for this cable. It appears to be well built. However, it is quality not needed and, in my view, not worth paying for. The way most of us use cables is: we plug them at the back of our electronic boxes and, if they work on 'day one' they are likely to work in the exact same fashion on day 1000 because they are not going to be subjected to any physical or thermal stress and the materials used to build them are not easily degradable. While 'quality' was important for analog cables where good quality made all the difference in the world, the digital wires either transmit the digits or they don't. If they do, they all work the same, the $1 HDMI cable gives you the exact same 'performance' the $100, gold-plated cable does.
The claims that seem to suggest that these expensive wires allow more Gigabytes of data to pass through and the implied suggestion that you would get a less bright image or a less crisp sound if you used a two-dollar cable are NOT true. The HDMI is a published standard and there is a minimum data throughput that must be supported. If it is, then the device is HDMI compliant and you will get everything that HDMI promises to deliver. If some cable exceeds the specified throughput, it's nice but it's irrelevant because no electronic component that's HDMI compliant would attempt to push more bytes through the wire than the standard specifies. If they did, they'd violate the specs and would not sell very well. If your electronic component had an HDMI port that called for an HDMI cable that exceeded the HDMI published standards, then it would no longer be called an HDMI port but a proprietary, non-standard solution.
The following are the HDMI 1.3 specs and ALL certified HDMI 1.3 cables (including the five-dollar wires and the Monster) are going to support them. Whatever 'extra' the M Series offers is useless because no HDMI-connected hardware component is going to ask for more.
Maximum signal bandwidth (MHz) 340
Maximum TMDS bandwidth (Gbit/s) 10.2
Maximum video bandwidth (Gbit/s) 8.16
Maximum audio bandwidth (Mbit/s) 36.86
Maximum Color Depth (bit/px) 48
Maximum resolution over single link at 24-bit/px 2560×1600p75
Maximum resolution over single link at 30-bit/px 2560×1600p60
Maximum resolution over single link at 36-bit/px 1920x1200p75
Maximum resolution over single link at 48-bit/px 1920×1200p60
sRGB
YCbCr
8 channel LPCM/192 kHz/24-bit audio capability
Blu-ray Disc video and audio at full resolution
Consumer Electronic Control (CEC)
DVD-Audio support
Super Audio CD (DSD) support
Deep Color
xvYCC
Auto lip-sync
Dolby TrueHD bitstream capable
DTS-HD Master Audio bitstream capable
Updated list of CEC commands (only on HDMI 1.3a,b,c)
My suggestion: search Amazon for "hdmi cable 1.3" and make an informed price/quality decision before you buy.
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Note:
I noticed a typical FUD statement that has been posted on this page in the form of a video. The presenter suggests that all signals, including 'digital' get degraded when passing through a wire because of the 'laws of physics'. The key word in his presentation is that 'IF YOU HAVE A REALLY LONG CABLE' then you may get into trouble. This is true. You can't have a 100 ft. HDMI cable or a one mile-long cable. Eventually, unless your signal, digital or analog, is boosted in some way, it's going to die and you won't be able to decode it at the other end.
However, this is NOT the point. This HDMI cable is NOT 'really long'. In fact, it is REALLY SHORT and, no matter how much FUD is inserted into the discussion, on 6 ft. or 8 ft. cables, you are NOT going to get a 'better' picture just because you pay 100 times more for a wire.
Unless the vendor comes up with some unbiased tests showing that, on 6 ft. or on 8 ft. cables the less expensive brands loses 'bits' to the degree that the receiving device can't correct for the loss while the expensive brand does not, this is nothing but FUD.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
its digital, it doesn't matterJun 15, 2010
By Bryce Godfrey
HDMI is a digital signal, this isn't the analog age and these expensive cables are not needed. As long as the cable supports the HDMI standard you need 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 then it will work. Save yourself the money and get the 10 dollar cable. IT WILL be the same quality. Digital either makes it or it doesn't, there is no distortion like analog signals. Don't be a sucker and pay the monster tax.
119 of 150 found the following review helpful:
Don't waste your moneyJan 12, 2009
By TM
"Sniper SpecOps"
I used to work for Best Buy, and our discount at the time was to get the items for cost. We could buy these cables for less than $7 each.... bit of a markup from the companies, huh? I also found that these cables do the exact same thing as the lower end cables, just with a brand name.
Don't waste your money. During these hard economic times we all still enjoy getting some items that make us feel better, why not be able to get more of what we enjoy with less money spent.
125 of 159 found the following review helpful:
Complete Waste Of Money-Total Scam!!Dec 17, 2008
By Robert C. Belden
"Bob-O"
Please! Please! Please! Don't be a total "Dumas" and believe the in-store Sales-Hole hyping these over-priced, do nothing extra cables!! These shameless in-store thieves know that you'll be spending some serious coin on your new flat-panel, so whats another hundred+ for some bogus cable if you think you'll be getting a better picture?? NOT!! It's common knowledge by those in-the-know, that measureable lab tests using an oscilloscope show ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE in signal, picture or audio quality between these cables and the ten buck or less generic brand cables on Amazon.com, [...] etc. This was both professionally measured as well as being demonstrated by an engineer on a recent expose' on FOX13 News in Tampa, FL. Keep in mind that all this cable has to do is transfer data only; (not high power, like a loud speaker) so any reasonably good conductor would work just fine just to transmit a data signal. So, either it works or doesn't work at all - there is NO middle ground!! Furthermore, if the cable really made that much of a difference, don't you think that the Manufacturer would either include the cable in the box or mention that in the set-up instructions?? I have tried several brands of HDMI cables, doing brand-blind tests and could never see or hear any difference of any kind!! EVER!! Don't be a total "Dumas" and fall for the BS!! I hope this clears up any myths regarding so called "high end" cables. Don't believe me??? Humor me; and try it yourself: ask the in-store Sales-Hole to let you compare an inexpensive HDMI cable and the Monster "scam" cable side-by-side, so you can see that "HUGE" differnce (NOT!) that he's telling you about. (Then, watch for the lump in his throat and listen carefully, as he craps his pants, knowing he's about to be proven WRONG!) You'll be glad you did... use the money you save to buy some nice Blu-Ray movies instead!! Bob-OH! OUT!!!
Review update Feb. 2012: Since I wrote this review a while back, the price of the "Monster-Profit" cables have dropped about 75% from what they were just a few years back. So, I guess they realized they just can't continue hosing the the American consumer anymore. You can still find decent HDMI cables for under ten clams at retail stores and online; typically, for about five clams or less - CompUSA/Tiger also recently (Feb., 2012) had them for "free after rebate".
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Complete waste of your moneyJul 21, 2010
By T. Harris
Please please heed the advice of the other reviewers and do not sink your money into these worthless cables. The $7 alternative works just fine and functions identically !!
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