This seems to be a 100ft, fire rated, high-speed active HDMI cable meant for routing through walls, so the price isn't that outlandish. It's much cheaper on the monoprice website though.
Active HDMI cables only work one way.
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Monoprice 6ft HDMI cables - 99¢ each
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This seems to be a 100ft, fire rated, high-speed active HDMI cable meant for routing through walls, so the price isn't that outlandish. It's much cheaper on the monoprice website though.
Active HDMI cables only work one way.
sixteen-bit
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dat $5.57 discount
demosthenes
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Shipping and handling more than 4 HDMI cables.
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monoprice is solid stuff
thanks for the heads up OP.
thanks for the heads up OP.
shira
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AV on HDMI, sold
motherxwolf
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they are all the same
I hope you realize that's it a joke.
nah it will add 25 horsepower to your TV though
OG_Original Gamer
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Just ordered a 10ft usb to micro usb cable as well as a female to male 15ft usb cable. I always recommend monoprice.
I found a better deal, but there's only 4 left:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IL3TZSQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Haha, AudioQuest. Of course. I don't think I've ever seen a verified purchaser review for their "super high end" cables.
Septimus Prime
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hdmi was a mistake
Terranwolf
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Welll.... not necessarily. Build quality varies. I can safely say that the AmazonBasics ones are pretty reliable, but every single Rosewill cable I own stopped working (no, not out of spec, but rather they drop signal at random a LOT, due to shoddy assembly). No idea about the monoprice cables, but at 99c they're worth a shot.
ChaoticBlue
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yep. they are about 75 times better.
No, crappy cables are less conductive, therefore not rated for higher bandwidth. That doesn't mean they automatically lock out higher resolution signals, it means durability, resistance and interference may be problematic for high performance applications. You may luck out and get 4K60 out of low rated, flimsy, poor quality cables but it's far from guaranteed. Digital signals need to be perfect square waves and cables with higher resistance may attenuate, clip, or round off those signals.
Yes, the truth is generally somewhere in the middle when it comes to HDMI cables...
- when Team "all cables are the same" yells "its a digital signal! It's either there or its not!" They are technically right, but its not QUITE that simple...
- just as when Team Monster cable goea on about exotic plating materials or being insulated with unicorn semen to preserve conductivity they are right in that higher quality materials are always better, but its not that simple there either...
Fact of the matter is you CAN get poor quality cables that will not properly or reliably carry the highest of quality signals...this especially becomes at issue when you're talking longer runs of cable...
60hz at 4k???
Well yeah. HDMI 2.0 refers to the ports themselves and they can push a 4K 60Hz signal through any old high speed HDMI cable. Doing that over 100ft of cable seems a sketchy, but it's apparently active HDMI so who knows.
The best part about transmitting digital signals is that it's pretty much all or nothing. If you don't have the bandwidth or have a defective cable it will be very obvious in use. You aren't going to have a slightly softer picture if it goes wrong. You are going to have macro blocking, sparkles or just a plain inability to transmit a usable signal. Gambling on shorter cables isn't that big a deal, but if you are planning on a long run to be custom installed then you want to insure you bought a quality cable. As someone pointed out with the 100' hdmi cable, paying more for quality makes a lot of sense when you are running long cables through multiple walls.
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