Monster @ CEDIA: Am I missing something?

[Alamar]

I was reading CEDIA coverage from a few sites and I'm a little confused about Monster's HDMI offerings.

From my reading of the articles it looks like Monster wanted to speed-rate HDMI cables so you would be guaranteed of XYZ throughput. To me this sounds like a great idea.

However I'm not sure if I understand their proposal. From my reading they are coming out with 5 or so different grades of cable. Each grade of cable will have a different speed rating. My problem is that I don't think that the speed rating of a given cable type changes if you have a 1 meter run of cable or 10 meter run of cable. If that's true then [not counting Monster's standard markup] won't consumers be dramatically overpaying for cables when they want a short run of cable?????

Wouldn't it be best to just indicate on packaging that this grade X cable of length Y will give you a guaranteed data rate of Z for "normal" use???

FYI: My hopes aren't to buy monster cable as they tend to be too pricey [I'm being nice]. I'm just hoping to see other people use similar guarantees.

 

[majorloser]

Here's something along the same lines as your comments:

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3084

I personally think HDMI bandwidth should be stated as distance vs. speed for any cable. But then we'd have to figure the manufacturers would lie

 

[Alamar]

I'd be happy if they basically just told me [within +/- 10%] what throughput I'll get with the cable in the box that I'm just about to buy .... This way, as a slightly educated consumer, then I'm not as likely to overbuy or [worse] underbuy the cable that I'm getting.

Of course I'm sure that most big businesses, esp. Monster, are hoping that I overbuy which is where the rub comes in ....

EDIT: Thanks for the link. That's actually one of the articles that I looked over that caused me to post here. My assumption being that this forum is likely more A/V saavy than AnandTech.

 

[Audioholics]

The short run cables (<2m) will pass just about anything, including Deep Color and 1080p/60 output. The speed rating is a nice thing, but they are only relevant once you factor in longer runs and higher bitrates.

Monster also scraped the bottom of the barrel with their demo - selecting an HDMI cable with Ferrite cores on each end, which is made by some Chinese guy in his bathroom. I have to applaud their researchers - they must have looked HARD for an HDMI cable that performed that badly.

 

[Johnd]

The short run cables (<2m) will pass just about anything, including Deep Color and 1080p/60 output. The speed rating is a nice thing, but they are only relevant once you factor in longer runs and higher bitrates.

Monster also scraped the bottom of the barrel with their demo - selecting an HDMI cable with Ferrite cores on each end, which is made by some Chinese guy in his bathroom. I have to applaud their researchers - they must have looked HARD for an HDMI cable that performed that badly.

Haaa! Wouldn't it be nice if we could inform Monster that we're aware of their sleazy tactics, which is the only way they can make their products look better (other than spending their millions on marketing)?