Are the high price connectors for HDTV really worth it?

Answer 1

You definetily want to get good cables. You will be able to tell a difference. You don't however want to buy the "top of the line" cables. You will see little if any difference between a middle of the road quality cable and the ultra expensive ones. Monster brand cables are overpriced. They are good cables but you can get cables as good for a cheaper price. Try either bluejeanscable.com or Monoprice.com. My friend got some cables from blue jeans and liked them. I got a HDMI cable from monoprice and was satisfied with the cost/quality I got from it.

Answer 2

If you are asking wether or not to buy an HDMI or DVI cable to transmit info to your HD TV the answer is Definitly YES! But only if you have a real high def cable/satelite box or a blue ray or hd dvd player. Any other source will not realy use the cables real capacity and you could get away with lesser cables. If you were asking about wether or not to buy cheap or expensive the other answers cover that question pretty well. One disagreement, however, the reason that nicer cables have gold plated connecters is because gold resists corrosion better than other materials. It is no better at transfering signal than normal connectors. In fact copper and silver are superior cunductors. The comment about signal interferance and sheilded wires is true, however, you'll only notice a difference in longer lengths of wire, or if you are runnig your wires along with a lot of other wires (power wires specifically). I usually buy the lowest level monster cable wires. These have almost identical sheilding to any of monsters higher end wires and are fairly competitively priced with other companies shielded wires.

Answer 3

well the high price connectors have gold tip which relay the most information possible to the unit, plus high end wires are shielded to prevent picking up radio emi waves because plain wires are nothing more than a antenna so the cables are shielded so they dont pass along the interfence to the unit you receive a clean signal the cables that come packaged in the unit i call ermergency cables spend the extra to improve signal strenth

Answer 4

Yes, it is worth it. Consider Costco for the connectors: they have both HDMI and component 12' cables for $35. I wouldn't pay the large money for the Monster ones.

Answer 5

There are cheap cables and connectors, there are reasonably-priced ones, there are expensive ones (Monster Cable) and there are the ridiculous (up to $100 per foot). For HDMI cables, get the least expensive ones you can find. Here is a good source: http://www.ehdmi.com/

For analog cables, stay away from the cheapest ones (low-end Radio Shack, for example), but moderately priced ones should be ok. Here is another possible source:
http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp

Answer 6

3 years ago my husband INSISTED we get HDTV. So, we got one paying EXTRA. The thing is you have to be in HDTV mode to watch HDTV and not all channels are HDTV either. After 3 years, I don't think we ever watched HDTV program once. I don't even think he remembers the TV is HD. Not to say it's not worth it. It may be worth for you.

Answer 7

dont buy the cheapest one, dont buy the most expensive one too.