Do Monster Cables Actually Serve a Purpose?

Whenever I hear the word “Monster Cable”, I clench my fists, because I know what kind of rip-offs their products are. It can be debated, but it’s been proven before over and over that a standard cable is almost always just as effective, as long as you are dealing with cable in feet and not meters (most people don’t need meters).

Well, could I be wrong? CrunchGear took a jaunt to CEDIA over the weekend and noticed Monster was walking around with a mobile station, showing people how much better their cables are over the competition. They compared all the cables with one heck of a video noise analyzer, and lo and behold, they did prove that their cables are better.

But while their cables did indeed prove their worth in being able to transfer much more data than the competition, the fact remains that this kind of bandwidth is generally just not needed for the vast population. There is a cutoff, but most people aren’t going to see video noise. However, I will admit it’s nice to see that Monster does indeed have a product designed for the enthusiasts, but it still seems to only apply with long cables (longer than 10 feet).

The way the engineer explained it to me is that viewers will not notice the difference in short runs because of the loss can be compensated by the HDTVs processors. Apparently, with longer cables, the extra noise is more noticeable and therefore the need for higher-quality long digital cables arise.