10 May
2012
10 May
'12
9:10 a.m.
On May 10, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Its like the BS with the HDMI cables when they came
out 5-6 years back, Monster was getting $129.99 for a 6' HDMI cable when they were
first released. All this talk about transmission grade quality, the ability to support
true 1080p and blah blah blah... now you can buy them for $9.99 for a 12' cable....
funny how all of the important transmission grade quality debates went right out the
window, along with the 1000x mark up.
Well. Monster still sells them for a pretty price:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Monster+-+M+Series+4'+HDMI+A/V+Cable/785759…
Monster has long made a living off the fact that the number of suckers
in the world increases monotonically. HDMI has been a great boon for
them, actually, because now that HD is an "in" thing, more of the
clue-deprived have become obsessed with "maximizing performance" of
their all-digital signal chain. It just doesn't make sense to a great
number of people that a more expensive cable won't be somehow better.
A lot of companies will try to throw the semi-clueful off with talk
about jitter, which would be important if you were feeding it directly
into a DAC, but of course any realistic system is going to buffering
and retiming its data anyway, so the jitter on the line just doesn't
matter.
- Dave