Mediabridge Ultra Series- 15ft High Speed HDMI Cable – Version 1.3 Category 2 Certified – 1080p – Blu-Ray – PS3
Mediabridge HDMI Cables are high quality cables that will do exactly what you need an HDMI cable to do. Simply put, they will cleanly transport the signal from your Blu-Ray player, PS3 or X-Box to your television without degrading the picture. And if your Blu-Ray player or game console happens to transmit 120hz, they will not get in the way of that either.
Mediabridge HDMI cables are CERTIFIED Category 2 by HDMI testing labs to meet or exceed todays most advanced HDMI standard. (more…)
So far I have bought a total of four HDMI cables, in lengths ranging from 3′ to 15′. I bought the 3′ cable first. It was made by Philips and sold by the most gigantic of all gigantic discount Marts. It worked fine, and it would have been long enough except it was so stiff I could never straighten it out completely. I returned it.
I did some research on Amazon and found these Mediabridge cables with astounding user ratings and amazingly reasonable prices. Not the sub-dollar junk you can also find here, but less than one third the big-box price of the Philips cables in equivalent lengths. I bought two of the 6′ cables to connect my two 1080p upconverting DVD players (a Sony 5-disc changer and a Philips region-free single-disc for playing foreign DVDs) to my wonderful (and cheap) AOC HDTV.
I was a little reluctant to buy 6′ cables because I only really needed 3′, and I know cable length can be tricky with very high-speed signals, but since the Philips 3′ wasn’t actually usable to that length, and I didn’t want to have to return these, I ordered 6′. They work like a dream. They’re as flexible as cooked spaghetti and transmit the signals without a single glitch.
Then I bought a new HP laptop with an HDMI output, but to work comfortably the cable had to be longer than 6′. I figured I’d go all the way and order the 15′, since it’s only marginally more expensive and would allow me to use the HDTV easily for watching streaming movies from Netflix. This cable also works like a dream.
My TV only has two HDMI inputs, so I do a fair amount of plugging and unplugging, with no signs of reliability problems so far. I highly recommend these Mediabridge HDMI cables–in any length–to anybody needing one.
I’m also very impressed with Mediabridge itself. Each cable comes very nicely packaged individually in a sturdy corrugated box, which is put into a larger box for shipping, and they ship quickly directly to the customer. What a relief not to have to saw through a hard plastic shell to get the product out! It’s an impressive company. PLUS, they’re an American company, and although I don’t know if they manufacture the cables domestically, they’re unafraid to print their New Jersey street address right on the box.
This cable was a great find, I have hooked up 6 or 7 brands of HDMI cables and this cable stands with the best!!! I had seen no difference from the Monster priced products to this cable. This cable is a heavy cable, with great Picture and Sound improvments when I plugged it in. I could see no change from the Monster priced ones, in fact the sound was better with this cable then others!! I will always look for Mediabridge when buying cables of this type!! Thanks again, and yes this HDMI cable will POP you picture and sound and is worth it, better then the Cable tv cables and worth it, to bad people only see the Monster Priced ones at the store. The only difference I saw was the Price!! Don’t be afraid to take them back and buy a Mediabridge!! Just try it!!
The cable worked fine and was a good deal, however I would not recommend this cable for any situation that would require repeated connections and disconnections of the cable. One connector broke while I was dressing the cable; I pulled a little too hard. Be very careful with these connectors.