Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
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Had to try and flog monster cables when I worked at Currys back in the day. I was a fairly honest salesman though, think I sold one in a year or two there, hardly ever made commission 
Was a massive incentive on them due to the gigantic markup £40 for a scart lead etc.
[Edited on 26-05-2015 by Cavey]
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jacko198
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Registered: 1st Mar 07
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As said, complete waste of money spending it on "high end cables" its all bollocks!
The cheeper the better, they either send a signal or they don't.
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JordyCarter
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My brother paid around £50-60 for a lead i got a 5m braided one for around £7 haha
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Jambo
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whilst I agree with the not spending daft money on them, some of the cheaper designs can fail. Same picture quality but where the chord puts stress on the "plug" end it has started to come apart on one of mine.
Worth picking a good design, hopefully cheaply 
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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Was a guy on tv once, he had an hdmi connected up, cut into it and separated the wires and bridged them with random things like a kitchen knife and it made no difference to the picture quality.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by jacko198
The cheaper the better, they either send a signal or they don't.
Digital isn't black and white, there is a shade of grey in between as you can have issues with clocking (/jitter) which then can have a knock-on affect with error correction etc
So you're right in that you shouldn't go out and spend £100 on a Monster cable, however you shouldn't be buying the cheapest cable either. Rather buy a cable that has decent connectors and a decent amount of copper in it 
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pow
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Terminating 19 core hdmi is a proper bastarf
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