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A Monster List of Things Monster Cable Will Soon Sue

Of all the things Monster Cable has sued because their names are too similar, a mini golf company seemed like a line even they wouldn't cross. We were wrong. Looking back at their history, founder Noel Lee & Co. have sued Disney for Monsters, Inc., Bally Gaming for Monster Slots slot machines, the people who make Monster Energy drinks, and the Chicago Bears, because their nickname is "Monsters of the Midway." Why stop here, Monster? We've got a whole list of people and things you should sue because you think your customers are too stupid to know the difference! Among them: Hillary Clinton, a deity, a baseball wall and a cartoon. More »

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2:39 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Jason Chen
15,136 views, 104 comments

Latest by Andham: All these companies should sue monster for associating their business names' with a cable company that sucks ass and is suing everyone probably because they are angry that the quality of digital cables doesn't really matter and you can get more »

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Monster Cable Sues Monster Mini Golf For, You Guessed It, Name Confusion

If people ever decide to wake up and stop paying the huge markups for Monster Cable for technology that's not even here yet, Monster can go into another business: selling balls. They've sure got an excess, seeing as they're following up a suit against another cable company because the connectors are too similar with a suit against a MINI GOLF COMPANY because their NAMES ARE TOO SIMILAR. More »

12:59 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Jason Chen
4,957 views, 66 comments

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Blue Jeans Cable Calls BS on Monster Cable Patent Suit, Vows to Fight to Bloody Death

Bullshit patent suits are annoying when it's a do-nothing patent holder trying to extract cash from fat corporate wallets, but even more so when it's a bigger company trying to muscle over little ones. Like Monster Cable suing Blue Jeans Cable for having connectors that looked like theirs. Blue Jeans' CEO, a former evil lawyer, has issued a ripping rebuttal, pointing out that "the gross morphology of the RCA plug is pretty well dictated by function" before throwing down, "I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds." Here's the whole ballsy letter: More »

3:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By matt buchanan
16,012 views, 117 comments

Latest by Reevs: I love the Guy.... I think if they go to curt they are fucked.... If they Pull out they are fucked.... "the world is already aware!!!! " MONSTER YOU ARE FUCKED!!!! Talk about a MISSFIRE.... Monster Make your research dont Fire a all small more »

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Monster Cable Has Cojones of Steel, C&Ds Blue Jeans Cable Because Their Connectors Are Too Similar

It's really, really tough to like Monster Cable as a company. Everyone knows how they mark up their prices and how a coat hanger may even be as good as their cables under short distances, but their business practices aren't much better either. They're following up up their last legal maneuver against a clothing company with the unfortunate name of Monster Vintage by serving Blue Jeans Cable and Tartan Cable with a cease and desist because their cable connectors are too similar. Just look at the comparison above. Do they look too similar. Would you be confused if you saw the two? Which one of them has the "Monster" logo on it again? I can't tell. [Audio Junkies]

6:40 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Jason Chen
7,622 views, 59 comments

Latest by n/a: [www.v-moda.com] WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

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Question of the Day: Do You Use Expensive Cable or Generic Cable?

The debate between expensive cable and generic cable has raged on for ages now, with the manufacturers of high-end products receiving quite a bashing for their high prices. So, even with all of the negative press about expensive cable being a waste of money, we have to ask: Do you use expensive cable or generic cable? More »

8:15 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
30,503 views, 100 comments

Latest by n/a: You can't hook up your new tv without purchasing these cables, so that's how they get you...if you can't wait. Only the suckers buy the high end cables. I go to meritlinedotcom for all my cabling needs; inexpensive not cheap. more »

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The Real Reasons Monster Cables Cost So Much

We've really dug into whether Monster Cables (or other "premium" brands) are worth the extra cash you've gotta fork over, asking things lke, "Does it really make your audio/video more pristine?" or "Are they better than coat hangers?" And that's the wrong approach. What about the love, sweat and tears that go into making each and every cable? This comic from Joy of Tech rights our wrongs. [Joy of Tech via Digital Home Thoughts]

10:12 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By matt buchanan
37,914 views, 43 comments

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Monster Cable iCableLink Adapts Proper Earphones with iPhone

Monster Cable, the cablemonger that never saw an $80 cable worth $7 it didn't like, reaches deep downmarket with iCableLink, letting you use a proper set of earphones with your iPhone instead of the included stock iPod buds. Uncharacteristically, it's reasonably priced.
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1:20 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Charlie White
8,171 views, 64 comments

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Dr. Dre Creates Beats By Dr. Dre Headphones with Monster Cable

Dr. Dre, the Chronic King, is making his first foray into consumer electronics, releasing a pair of headphones with none other than Monster. The $400 headphones will indeed feature "rich deep bass—a Dr. Dre trademark." Here's what the Doctor himself has to say:
"When I'm making a track I'm trying to capture the sound that makes me go 'now THAT's the shit! And I want that reaction from everybody who hears it. I spend a lot of time in the studio listening to my music through headphones...with Beats, people are finally going to hear it the way they should: the way I do."
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6:30 PM on Sun Jan 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
20,341 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm no expert, but mixing a session on a pair of these would be sonically incorrect, a monstrosity, a disaster of biblical proportions, a traumatic experience, a rash of widespread panic, ok maybe i went too far.. but somebody better more »

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Monster Cable Founder Noel Lee Explains How He Got Started


In this exclusive GizVid, take a look at Monster Cable founder Noel Lee as he tells us the story of his beginnings. He studied finance and engineering, learned how electricity flows through wires, and then founded Monster, his company that sells expensive cables to unsuspecting consumers. He must have taken quite a few classes in salesmanship and litigation, too. He doth protest too much, methinks. Now you tell us what youthinks. [Video by Nick McGlynn]

11:10 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Charlie White
6,396 views, 28 comments

Latest by Gary_7vn: I used to have a friend who was an "audiophile". One night I totally screwed with his system. Reversed his equalizer setttings, turned off this, turned on that; then I asked him about the difference between an audiophile system and more »

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Monster's New Cables Finally Priced and Mystery "Box" Category Revealed

I was wrong. Monster's new low low pricing isn't in the $30 range, like I said earlier. The 500 series I mentioned actually starts at $50 for a 1-meter cable. But it seems Monster left its lowest price level of cable out of the midnight announcement: Simply labeled the "box" level, it starts at $40, the cheapest price you will find for Monster. More »

11:43 AM on Tue Aug 28 2007
By Wilson Rothman
4,682 views, 33 comments

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Monster Announces Cheaper "Speed-Rated" HDMI Cables

Monster Cable's Noel Lee is about to play his next card: His move is to stratify his assorted cable offerings into five distinct categories, starting in the $30 range. Each category will be designated by a "speed rating," and will deliver "demonstrable difference in high-def image quality." But as many of you know, Gizmodo research has found that many cables determined too poor to carry 1080p signal in tests nevertheless do fine in real-world scenarios. More »

12:01 AM on Tue Aug 28 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,686 views, 32 comments

Latest by Kupaka: @tucker: so many superlatives... more »

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Monster Cable for Life HDMI Upgrade Path Guarantees Format Compatibility for Life

Monster Cable's HDMI Cable for Life program guarantees that the cable will meet or exceed all HDMI performance requirements for life or they'll swap them. (And estimates that cables bought next month will be good for 3-5 years, until 4K and true 60 frame per second progressive signals become prevalent.) If only someone had made us this offer for our VCR's Coax cables we woudn't have had to upgrade to high end coax cables again and again! More »

3:40 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Jason Chen
3,155 views, 8 comments

Latest by TurboFool: This is a hilarious rip-off. Yes, it sounds like a great concept until you realize why Monster's really doing it: HDMI will be replaced long before they have to worry about it. DisplayPort's already making headway, and other technologies will more »

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The Truth About Monster Cable, Part 2 (Verdict: Cheap Cables Keep Up...Usually)


Last Monday, Brian and I had a chance to run down to Monster HQ in Brisbane, CA to run some tests for the HDMI Cable Battlemodo. More »

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11:30 AM on Thu Jun 14 2007
By Wilson Rothman
165,417 views, 94 comments

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Do You Wall or Table Mount Your Flat TV?

You following this Monster Cable debate we've been having? They showed us some tested differences between their cables and the cheap stuff. More »

9:17 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Brian Lam
23,385 views, 61 comments

cable fight!

Attention Monster Haters: The Giz HDMI Cable Battlemodo Has Begun


Some of you might recall my recent article about Monster Cable. If you read it through, you'd remember it as the piece that outlined Monster's more credible scientific claims, culminating in my sober recommendation to buy a cheap HDMI cable first, then work your way up. (I got the impression that not all commenters actually read the story.) More »

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5:19 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Wilson Rothman
38,147 views, 87 comments

field notes

The Truth About Monster Cable


Hey guys: I just got back from meeting with Noel Lee from Monster Cable, along with a posse of affiliated ladies and gentlemen, and their heavy equipment. I was there to talk to them about the fact that they sell—and have convinced a lot of retailers to sell—very expensive cable ($120 for 2 meters, last I checked). At the same time, there are cheaper non-Monster cables available on the Internet. My simple question Why? resulted in an organized, technical 2-hour response. I won't give you the blow-by-blow, but I have information that might make this debate interesting, and a bit more three-dimensional. More »

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5:55 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Wilson Rothman
101,973 views, 131 comments

Latest by n/a: Monster Cables are junk for the price and most audio/video experts or even wannabee experts know this. I had associates work at retail outlets and they would tell me that Monster owners/investors/board members would occasionally drive up to the more »

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Monster iFreePlay Headphones Turn 2G iPod Shuffle Into Headgear

Tired of all the pocket (or shirt, if you're a tool) real estate your iPod shuffle takes up? Monster's iFreePlay cordless headphones (which look extremely familiar) let you jack your shuffle directly into a side dock built into the left ear. More »

1:45 PM on Wed May 23 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,224 views, 12 comments

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HDMI Cable Ripoff Continues, Cable Prices Go Even Lower Elsewhere

Monster Cable and its accomplices continue to rip off unsuspecting consumers, charging $119.99 at retail for a 2-meter HDMI cable (there's its portrait at left). Oh, wait, Amazon sells that same Monster Cable for $75.88. On the other hand, Firefold sells a 6-foot HDMI cable for $5.71, the lowest price we've seen yet. That's a difference of $73.17. More »

10:45 AM on Wed Feb 21 2007
By Charlie White
10,403 views, 41 comments

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