Monster Cable DVI400-1M DVI-D Video Cable

Whether you're watching the ball game or an action-packed movie in high definition, without question, the picture quality is stunning. It could be better, though. For high definition all-digital video to look its best, the data must be transferred from your set top box or DVD player to your HD display in pure digital form. Unfortunately, this can't occur with analog video cable. Even high-resolution component video is still an analog connection! In order for component video, or any other analog cable to do its job, your HDTV tuner, DVD player or other digital source must convert video data from the digital domain to analog, then back to digital. This conversion process can cause high frequency attenuation, and loss of resolution and detail.Monster DVI400 is a pure digital high bandwidth video interface. What you see on your screen is exactly what was digitally transmitted. DVI400 is designed to support the high bandwidth demands from your set top box to the HDTV display. DVI400 supports up to 24-bit digital RGB data behind each pixel for the highest quality image. You'll enjoy a razor sharp picture with incredible detail and vibrant, natural colors, even if you're forced to use long cable runs.You paid a lot extra to enjoy the benefits of digital source material (DVD/HDTV) and a digital display device (Plasma/High Def.). Why limit the performance of these cutting edge technologies by connecting them with less than the highest quality digital interface? Monster DVI400 helps you get all the performance you paid for!

but I noticed it before i hooked it up and straightened the little metal wire to where i thought it should go and works fine

Title says it all. Very well made cable but for my need I should have purchased it in the 2 meter length.

I'm sure this cable is very high quality, but c'mon design guys, get a brain. I had to take a knife to it in order to get it to fit into the dvi port on my samsung 22" monitor. The plastic surrounding the metal dvi connector is too wide to fit past the available space on my monitor. Then, my fingers barely had room to turn the tightening screws...it sure would have helped it they hadn't gone for the fancy gold colored screws and had just used a simple plastic tightener that had slots in the ends for a screwdriver like most cable tighteners. Also, as usual with Monster products, hugely overpriced.

You'd certainly expect a monster cable to be well built and carry the signal well, and it does this nicely. I'm carrying a DVI signal to a 37" inch LCD screen over 4 feet with no loss of signal. It really takes PC viewing to a new level. My only complaint is the size of the adaptor. It is so large, it is difficult to slot into the video card of my desktop PC, almost to the point where I couldn't use it. I have had to unscrew the mount of my video card and bend it out of place to make it fit. There's a difference between being well built and being bulky for the sake of it. I slimmer mount in future designs would make this a perfect cable.

I've been using this cable for over a month and love it. True that there isn't much difference between different grades of material when using DVI, but there is some. Just about the only noticable difference was in screen text. The text was good before, but now it's actually noticeably sharper. Would it be worth it for somebody that already is using a DVI cable? Probably not. It would however be an excellent choice for one that has an LCD monitor that did not come with a DVI cable.