Monster Cable HDMI 400 DVI-2M High-Definition Video Interconnect 2 Meters | 
 enlarge | Brand: Monster
Category: CE
List Price: $119.99
Buy New: $4.23
You Save: $115.76 (96%)
New (18) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $4.23
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: 2 Meters
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 12 x 14 x 10
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty
MPN: HDMI400/DVI-2M
Model: HDMI400/DVI-2M
UPC: 050644369414
EAN: 0050644369414
ASIN: B0001OHH5G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | For high-definition video (720p and 1080i) or standard video formats. | | • | Gas-injected dielectric for optimum signal strength and ultra-low loss. | | • | High-density triple-shielding for maximum rejection of RFI and EMI. | | • | Connects components with HDMI and DVI interfaces to each other. |
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Product Description
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) 400 is a remarkable new high-bandwidth digital connection that offers superior digital video and multi-channel audio in a single cable, reducing the maze of home theater connections. It's simple, user-friendly connection is backwards-compatible with DVI, and it delivers a high-definition picture that's five times the resolution of conventional TV for the highest quality, crispest image quality available.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 sturdy outer mesh covering on this cable give it a solid feel September 7, 2007
Purchased this cable due to excellent price by cables plus store on Amazon. It seems to be a standard quality cable brand that is in most every retail store. I also use Transparent Cable and Synergistic Research cables in my audio and parts of my video configuration that make Monster Cable MSRPs appear inexpensive. I am not convinced that using quality digital cables significantly improve the audio and video in a home theater system, but I am convinced there is an improvement when using quality speaker and component video cables.
 DVI screw broke off in my video card May 24, 2007
After 2 months of normal use, the screw broke and it took a lock wrench to get out. Hopefully amazon will arrange an exchange and I hope this is the only time such a thing has happened.
Again - I'm not kidding. There was no abuse or pulling of the cable. I've screwed it in and out twice to move the unit. Third time, it popped off.Monster Cable HDMI 400 DVI-2M High-Definition Video Interconnect 2 Meters
great cable, but overpriced March 19, 2007
Great cable quality; the dvi connection fits snug and the screws aren't flimsy as with other cables.
Would get 5 but Monster's suggested retail price is INSANELY overpriced!
 I don't have this cable either March 18, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I originally wrote this as a comment below, but you won't get to read it unless you go digging, so i am placing it here instead.
I'll shorten the read for you and conclude that digital transmission media can have different results depending on cable quality, and that it is very possible that you can notice a difference purchasing a monster cable over a cheap one.
The guy below, and the other guy whaling on about digital signals being digital signals only are so wrong its not funny. The guy that mentioned the analog waveforms is absolutely correct.
Digital transmissions through cables like this, or fibre optics or even digital tv through the air, use analog waveforms !
How can you say that this cable sends 1's and 0's and thats it ? How do you send a '1' through a cable ?
Pick one end up and shout "one !!!!!" down the cable ? Of course not ! You need to send it via an electrical signal, which means you need to send some voltage levels. How you do this can vary. Any electric signal, including square waves, the wave most commonly thought of "digital" is still an analog waveform ! A digital pulse is in fact made up of many many analog harmonics that add together to form a square pulse. If you look at the spectrum is covers quite a range of frequencies and the term frequency here is not referring to the same "frequency" of your ones and zeros.
The devices that use these digital cables, like many other digital transmissions, encode the digital sequence onto some sort of other signal. One thing of paticular interest is the fact that the timing signal is also encoded in the signal.
The fact that the timing signal is there as well, is where half the problems come from ! In digital Audio in particular, there is an effect called digital jitter. This is where the timing signal travelling through your cable does not reach the other end perfectly, and hence the timing of the processor at the other end, which relies on the timing signal being sent through the medium, can easliy be wrong. This can happen because of hi and low pass filtering effects through your cable, which makes the point where your digital " 1's and 0's" change, harder to distinguish and be less precise.
HDMI and DVI and all thouse digital video sources have a timing signal in there as well.
What about impedence matching in cables, which causes reflections which can make jitter worse ?
What about digital television, do you really think "1'a and 0's" are just flying through the air randomly ? How does your set top box distinguish between different channels ? Why does it find these digital channels at certain "frequencies" on the same frequency as your normal television ? Because your digital tv is encoded onto an analogue waveform and taken back out at the recievers end !
If you don't believe me, do some reading. Look up things like quadrature phase modulation or digital jitter and you'll find that digital systems are in no way as simple as you claim them to be !
If you want to declare that digital signals "are 1's and 0's only - nothing more to discuss" then your statement serves no more then to point out that you have absolutely no idea what your talking about.
Monster cables are built to lessen the problems that digital systems can suffer from. You may or may not notice not, but from what i have experienced with people listeing to the difference between cheap digital cables and monster ones, is that 3 out 4 people claim to hear a difference.
By all means, I think monster cables are a little overpriced, but without a shadow of a doubt - cables are not cables - digital or not.
In the words of the head of engineering, where i did my first degree in electronics "digital is ultimately analog anyway........................"
HMDI to DVI-dDVI-D CABLES February 9, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I haven't had the opportunity to use these cables. My electronics are Denon high-end, and be warned, they will not work with these cables (HDMI to DVI-D)
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