(Best Buy)
We’ve seen many an overpriced HDMI cable in our time, especially in places such as Best Buy, so it takes a lot to make us do a double take. Never to be underestimated, Best Buy has come through with a (crack) smoking deal on a cable that costs more than many of the retailer’s Black Friday TV deals.
This beauty can be yours for $695.99. Good news, though — free shipping!
(Thanks, John!)
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I love the reviews on the BestBuy site for this cable.
My favorite: “I was little worried about the low 695.00 price. I had to finance it and had geek squad come out to install it for me.”
A two year old could install an HDMI cable. But since people who shop at BestBuy are a little lower on the intellectual food chain, maybe that explains it.
It’s really sad because there’s a little old lady somewhere who’s going to be hussled into buying this by some high-pressure salesman…
I remember when I first bought an HD tv, the salesman insisted I needed to buy one of the more expensive HDMI cords and sadly I folded and spent an extra 30 bucks on something I didn’t need..live and learn right?
But women buying designer handbags for thousands of dollars is ok?
Wait, who said that was OK?
Looks much like the same one I got at Sam’s Club for $19.95. Dang those Chinese!
The reviews are actually worth checking out. Very funny.
That is so criminal. All functioning HDMI cables are equal. I’ve heard this little speech from my hubby about 40 times now:
“It’s a digital signal. It’s either on or off. It does not degrade.”
I was looking at an Xbox at Best Buy last week, and they were selling some package that included an HDMI cable, the console, and a game. The package claimed the HDMI cable was a $60 or $70 value. I had already decided to buy the Xbox online, but if I had been buying it from Best Buy, I would have asked if they can take $60 off if I don’t get the HDMI cable.
It’s ridiculous how much they price these things for. I can buy an HDMI cable online for around $1.00.
You gotta pay extra for all those atoms of copper, carefully assembled into a crystalline lattice to delicately carry the precise signal of flowing electrons from one end of the cable to the other, literally trillions of atoms away, all at the speed of light!
This feat of extreme engineering and scientific genius requires the best materials money can buy.
Or about $2.00 at MonoPrice, but who’s counting.
I bet MonoPrice doesn’t have HDMI cables in brown. HaHA!
I simply had to have the very best HDMI cable and price was NO object. You see when I want to watch digital television in the winter pent house I need the very, very best. I simply can’t stand jitter of any kind. Only the riff-raff watch jitter littered digital television. I sir, am no riff-raff.
My only disappointment with this digital cable is that it was not gold lined copper with a hand tailored leather sheath. Silver and plastic is so gauche, so gauche indeed. What I endure is amazing at times.
What’s great about it: It is the ver best digital cable
What’s not so great: Everyone can buy it, and its not gold lined copper
I think I’ll stick to the deal at Tiger Direct. Btw–this is in Canadian dollars, which sure I know isn’t much different from a greenback, but still, 4×6′ HDMI cables for $19, in case one or two die on you, sure beats Audio Quest! $696×4 = $2,784 which is much > $19.
Everybody seems to overlook the single question who’s answer completely and utterly destroys the claims of any purveyor of snake-oil high-end digital cabling.
That question is, how come there isn’t any uber-high quality Cat5/5e/6 cables used in enterprise IT?
Ya, ones and zeros. They get there or they don’t.
http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-High-Speed-Meters-Supports-Channel/dp/B001T9NUJE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291046875&sr=8-1
7 bucks at amazon. that said…this specific cable seems to have extra shielding and other.. gimmicks..that they are using to push up the price. As BannedinBrittan says, there does seem to be some hdmi cables running into this price range if you dig for them. I can only imagine what kind of environment you must be working in to need that kind of shielding.
I just want the name and addresses of people who have bought this cable. I have some digital snake oil I’d like to sell..
Seriously, how could anyone smart enough to make the kind of money to pay for this be so stupid???
Monoprice.com. They’re so good, they don’t have an affiliate program. And I’ll pimp the for free!
Who is anyone here to judge someone with the means to purchase this item…. It’s their money they can spend it how they wish….
How is this specifically a Best Buy article? Shouldn’t you be bashing the manufacture instead?
I just read the reviews on these cables and they are hilarious.