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Stock photos misleading and no seller info not even a zip code made it difficult to determine who or how to contact someone to get it returned. amazon NOT buyer friendly. NOT worth the hassle. Sellers IDs didn't match return address labels. I purchased 2 items from 2 different sellers with the same description and received 2 different items. Contacted amazon who offered NO help.
I removed every piece of Monster from my system and replaced them with AR, Belden, Viewsonics and others from Amazon. Makes video test patterns look great, but who watches test patterns all day. Amazon offers many other brands at good prices, why waste your $$ on this stuff. For some years I tried this and other Monster products, to the tune of over $1000 in Monster a/v gear. Result: vast improvement in every respect. Specifically, this s-video meets no NTSC, DVD or IEEE standard; it is common 30-ohm hookup wire with ineffective shielding and a poorly designed, low-conductance connect plug that can wreck your input jacks and gives poor grounding. The more you learn about video and audio, the more you'll avoid anything with the Monster label. Has a sharp image, but includes a catalog of chromatic aberrations from off-color skin tones to color blotching, dirty grays, burned highlights, murky shadows, noisy reds, and poor color balance due to impedance mismatching that results in cyan errors and bleeding reds.
It took only a week of waiting (back and forth shipping, mind you) and I had a brand spanin' new cable in my possesion. I thought I'd try and take advantage of their claim and low and behold, I easily made arrangements to have a new one exchanged. Great customer service. I had a pair of these cables for approximately 2 years when i noticed there was a frayed end where the connector started to come off. I didn't notice any change in performance but I recalled that ALL Monster Cable "wires" have a lifetime warranty.
I have to say, my TV is a good one and the picture quality is already satisfactory even I don't use DVD player. I don't want to say this expensive cable is a poor one, I was just unable to verify its alledged ultra high performance. ~I bought the MVSV3-1m cable and put it between my Pioneer V555 DVD player and SONY WEGA tv KV-27FS12, I was unable to see with my naked eyes any improvement regading the visual quality, color, sharpness. Unfortunately my DVD player does not have component jack to let me try the next level video~~ experience. we just don't have a benchmark to evaluate it.~ Same as the result as I used the composite cable came with the box. I really don't know why.
Those peoplegiving such great reviews don't know the difference betweenan ohm and plastic. No difference compared to another good cable costing 1/2 as much.Don't believe me - buy and then return it, or just save yourselfthe trouble. Monster preys on perfectionists.
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