Is it worth it to pay $100 for a 'premium' Monster HDMI cable?

Question

I have a 780 res. Panasonic Plasma TV and am wondering if it's worth it to pay $100 for a Monster HDMI cable rather than only $10 for a Belkin HDMI cable. Is there honestly a noticeable difference? I will be using it to go from my HD DirecTV receiver to the TV.

Answer 1

Yeah

I just bought an HDMI cable today, a pretty nice one, and when i went home i set it up and didn't see any difference at all

Don't waste your money, get the cheaper one

Answer 2

The Kuro is a great TV and I understand your concern about limiting that great TV with a sub-standard cable. Here is an idea: what do the TV and production studios use? Do they buy $$$ cables to master DVD's or carry the HDTV programing? In general - professional cables are bought on spools and custom cut to fit their needs. The brands are "Mogami", "Belden", "Canare" and a few others. A custom cable with this cable stock can be purchased from websites like BlueJeans. He has both a more expensive Belden Cable ($40) and a less-expensive China made cable ($24). I use a Belden based HDMI cable for my system (and Canare component cables by the way). The Belden cable is ... UGLY. It is not the sexy, high-tech lizard skin cables that look good (but do nothing for signal transfer but justify the high price). The Belden cables have a thick, heavy black outer sheath. But you can drag this through walls and conduit and it fights tight bends to protect the connectors on either end. At $40 - it is well worth the purchase to try it and a good compromise between the $$$ cables and the ultra-cheep cables. Give it a shot, but BlueJeans is used by lots of people who study equipment and cables for dedicated HT rooms. Good luck and enjoy that TV.

Answer 3

The ONLY reason to get a $100 cable is if you want to hide it in the walls and the $100 cable is the only one long enough to accomplish that task.

If the $20 cable looks better to your eyes (as it goes with your decor) you could get the $20 one instead of the $10 one but a cable is a cable. And Belkin makes good cables.

Answer 4

Poorer quality cables can have higher resistances and higher signal loss, but nothing noticeable on your TV, whatever unless the cable run is extremely long. - You just plain are not going to experience much loss or resistance problems with a seven foot or less long cable, even it you made it yourself with coathanger wire. The differences might show up on an oscilloscope readout, but mean less than nothing to you, or your equipment.

Answer 5

if you wire is less than 30 ft and you are only using the tv speakers and not going through a reciever than no the cheap one will give you the same quality, and if you only talking about 780 resolution, then you will not be a ble to tell the difference between component wire either.

Answer 6

Nope. There's no proven difference, except that the Monster marketing is good.

Monoprice has cheap HDMI cables.

Answer 7

myself i payed extra and went for the monster they last longer and the hdmi cheap ones dont have a good clarity in the sound unlike monster which gives u a great clear sound. but if the sound doesnt relly bother u stick with the cheap one

Answer 8

I spent $20 on my HDMI cable and it looks great. I see no reason to spend more than that!

Answer 9

To me it is not worth it. They always keep showing the same lousy reruns over & over. Even movies are alway reruns. How many time are they going to show, "The Breakfast Club" This is an example of what I mean. Untill they come out with NEW movies or older movies I have not seen, It's not worth it.

Answer 10

Absolutely not. The ten dollar cable will work fine.