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Component Monster Cable Review
A monster cable is in essence a very high end cable that tries to get your signal from your DVD to your TV with as minimal interference as possible. This makes a lot of sense - your DVD player starts out with a signal that is as perfect as it can get, i.e. as perfect as a DVD can be. If you have a really awful cable, that lets ambient "noise" affect its signal, then by the time you watch the TV version, it could be really fuzzy and awful.
How can you really "judge" this though? I have an aquarium DVD that was built for high end plasma sets (not that I own a high end plasma set!). The point being, the clarity of the DVD is very good. I then swapped out cables to see what it looked like on our Sony HD screen.
My digital camera is a Sony 7.2 Megapixel, so very high quality. Note that the screen is "paused" so that the comparisons would match - meaning the fish were caught "in action" and are therefore moving. I tried to find locations of the image that were static, so that there would be as little motion blur effect as possible. Also, I did not use any JPG compressions on these files. Therefore they're big and will take a while to download, but you know that the images are what was on the TV and not a strange JPG compression utility.
Cheap Charter Cable
Monster Component Cable
High End Charter Cable
Monster Component Cable
Here's zoom-ins on specific areas of the images, shown "actual size" as far as the camera's resolution is concerned.
Cheap Charter Cable
Monster Component Cable
High End Charter Cable
Monster Component Cable
Of course if you have a bad monitor it'll be hard to judge anything here :) What we found is that the monster cable is definitely better than the cheap Charter-provided component cable and slightly better than the high end Charter-provided component cable. Can you live with "slightly fuzzy"? It all depends on your budget and eyeballs. If your eyesight isn't 20/20, then maybe you already live with fuzz and it doesn't bother you. Then again, if your eyesight is already giving you fuzz vision, do you really want your TV to add to the problem? We found in our case that it was worth it to have the Monster Cable to see the clearest image we could. Then again we also chose to buy a HD tv, when many people feel the higher quality image isn't worth it. So this is something you'll need to try and decide for yourself.
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