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home theater
Monster MCC AV50 Home Theater Controller, Or Star Trek Were Gene Roddenberry Blind
There's something vaguely reminiscent of vintage sci fi in this new remote from Monster, but there's not nearly enough of that something to make the design palatable in any way. More »
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By Mark WilsonComment by Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Is this the same Monster as the HDMI cables monster or one of the countless other companies that is getting... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Monster SuperThin HDMI Cables Really Are SuperThin
Monster's SuperThin HDMI cables aren't just marketing noise, they're real, and thinner than the anacondas most people have jacked into their TVs. RedMere's tech lets them skimp on heavy-gauge copper, so they're just 3.5mm around. More » -
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Monster Turbine Pro Earbuds Earwax On
Monster's followup to their decent Turbine buds—Turbine Pro—show they're more betterer with gold trim. Listening to them immediately after the Turbines, they definitely sounded better—richer, better balanced, with more presence, kinda like going from Shure's SE110s to SE115s. More » -
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Monster Cable Lowering Prices During Recession, Uh...Thanks?
Monster Cable, purveyors of grossly overpriced products, feel your pain during these tough financial times. That's why they are reducing their ridiculous prices to slightly less ridiculous prices during the recession. More » -
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Engadget's Monster Cable Endorsement: "Monster Cable Sucks"
If you spotted this ad for Monster's Dr. Dre Beats headphones—which strips an out-of-context blurb from a news post—you'd think Engadget gave Monster Cable an awkward-sounding endorsement. But the mutilated sentence was lifted and applied without Engadget's permission. More » -
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Monster Cable Sues Monster Transmission, Ensures Spot on DBag Company List of '09
Monster Cable, suer of an incredible number of companies that just happen to have the word "Monster" in their names, has turned their attention to Monster Transmission. They make transmissions. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by urbanturban666: why do ppl still buy there pricey cables? if everyone stops then the monster can finally go extinct... there are... 14 Responses | Other threads
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apple
Shuffle-Compatible Headphones Trickle In From Etymotics, Klipsch, Monster and Scoche
We're just starting to get word on Shuffle VoiceOver-friendly headphones coming from third-party manufacturers. In addition to the news we've already seen from Scosche, there's a $100 pair from Klipsch, and we're being told that there will be more announced from Monster and Etymotics shortly, if not already. Shure confirmed to us that it does not have a Shuffle-ready headset or any kind of adapter. Stay tuned for details, but that's the tally right now.
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Comment by OMG! CoHPhasors: Anyone see $100 headphones for a flimsy $89 screen-less player as counter-intelligent? 3 Responses | Other threads
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This is Why the Limited Edition White Dr. Dre Monster Beats Cost 2x As Much
Gear Live, through a hands-on, has finally figured out why the white version of the Monster Beats cost twice as much as the standard black version. It's coated by Colorware. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by alexmg2420: And Colorware is...? I've honestly never heard of it. 6 Responses | Other threads
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ripoffs
Monster Offers White Version of Beats Headphones, Charges $700 For No Discernable Reason
If there's a company out there that engages in price gouging more blatantly than Monster, I've never heard of them. Today's offense: charging $700 for a pair of $350 headphones painted white.
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By Adam FrucciComment by KeepingTheForeName_GitEmSteveDave: How would you feel if I went around calling you Black Dr. Dre Beats Headphones? You mean there's a White Dr.... 6 Responses | Other threads
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reviews
Monster Turbine In-Ear Headphones Impressions (High Quality, Decent Price)
Monster just announced their first ear buds, the Turbine "In-Ear Speakers", a followup to the Beats By Dre cans, and they are quite nice for the $150 price tag. I tried them on for a few hours, and so far I've been impressed with the clean, deep bass and crisp, clear mids and highs. In fact, I'd be willing to put them up against the Shure SE110s or similar headphones when it comes to sound quality. More »
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scams
Monster Knows You Need Five Different Sprays to Clean Your iPhone, Camera, Phone, GPS and Laptop
The professional bullshit artists and dumbass fleecers over at Monster have devised another way to remove money from the wallets of the ignorant: cleaning sprays. More »
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By Adam FrucciComment by Toshie: Actually I've found Walgreens plastic eyeglass lens cleaner spray ($1.89 per 3oz. spray bottle) has the same ingredients (isopropanol and... 3 Responses | Other threads
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vampire power
Monster Slays Vampire Power with New Power Strips, Slays Wallets Too
Monster, usually better known for cabling, is now tackling powering your gadgets in an eco-friendly manner with a new range of standby-killing power strips. The Digital Life Power Center Green Power versions being the first of two lines, aimed at connecting your computer gear up: when you turn off the computer, all the peripheral sockets get switched off too. There're three versions—the MDP 650, 800 and 900. More » -
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Lightning Review: Dr. Dre and Monster Headphones vs. a Jackhammer
The Gadget: Dr. Dre and Monster's Beats headphones, which combines noise cancellation/isolation with an in-line microphone for cellphones. Plus, you have Dre's expertise in knowing what sounds good, which makes for a good pair of cans. More »
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home entertainment
Monster Digital Express HD System: Their First Wireless HDMI Kit
We just got a briefing on Monster's Wireless Digital Express HD System, a UWB system that transmits video wirelessly in the same room, If you want to send it to another room, it'll use already-in-wall coax to transmit high-def signal. Sigma Designs, known for its Blu-ray player chips, is on board, using its Wireless HDAV cable replacement to upconvert, encode and then decode the 1080p video signal on the fly. It's going to cost $600 for a transmitter and receiver pair, which may sound like a lot for you to connect your Wii to your 32" LCD in place of a 30-cent AV cable, but considering what it's capable of doing—and the technology it's using—it's not awful. More » -
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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.
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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 »
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By Jason ChenComment by DerwinMarigold: Not to stick up for a company that is obviously loathed by everyone on this site, but Monster does have... 1 Responses | Other threads
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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 »
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monster cables
Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger
Whether or not Monster Cables are worth it is a war that has raged since home theater immemorial. A poster at Audioholics was put in a room with five fellow audiophiles, and a Martin Logan SL-3 speaker set at 75Db at 1000KHz playing a mix of "smooth, trio, easy listening jazz" that no one had heard before. In one corner, Monster 1000 speaker cables. In the other, four coat hangers twisted and soldered into a speaker cable. More » -
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Are Monster Cable's Markups Technically Worth It?
Consumerist found this amazing list of retailer cost for Monster Cable, where many of the cables went for nearly double what they cost. Monster responded with an answer that was thoughtful from their point of view. Many times, in "jewelery, clothing, and furniture, the markup is even greater." Fine, I don't know anything about retail. But technically speaking and from a consumer's point of view, here is what I think: More »
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By Brian LamComment by tobedetermined: Circuit City sales guy to me: "You are spending a thousands of dollars on a HDTV. If you want... 1 Responses | Other threads
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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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home entertainment
Monster iSonicast Turns Your iPod Into a Wireless Remote
Sometime late this year, Monster (yes, that Monster) will roll out the iSonicast, a two-piece system that turns your iPod into a wireless remote control that streams music to the base station, located at your stereo. It's a simple system, and at $100, a pretty low price, especially for Monster. It uses 2.4GHz RF to transmit, and though it's currently spec'd to get a range of 30 feet, Monster's Noel Lee tells us they might try to jack up the range, though the downside may be less battery life. I know what you're thinking: I've seen this before. Logitech had something like this about two years ago, using Bluetooth. Not sure what became of it, but the sound quality back then wasn't great. Here's hoping Monster can live up to its reputation and get some decent sound. [Monster] -
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New Honeywell HDMI Cable Heals Self, But At What Cost?
Honeywell, maker of all kinds of scary top-secret stuff, has just unveiled its design for a "self-diagnostic and self-healing" HDMI cable. No, this isn't like the self-healing armor that for all we know Honeywell also helped design; these new cables use a chip to correct signal as it passes through, and LEDs to tell the user what's going on. 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 » -
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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 » -
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Monster's iSlim Shuffle Charger Makes Me Bonkers, Literally
One of the drawbacks of the 2nd gen. iPod Shuffle was that it lacked an integrated docking method. Monster obviously noticed the flaw and released the iSlim Shuffle charger in response. It is impressively small. At $14.95 the price is reasonable. Considering the Shuffle is an absolute minimalist player, spending more to kit it out probably is not the main idea. Still, that has not stopped it being decked out in 18K solid gold in the past. More »
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cables
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 »
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By Jason ChenComment by TurboFool: This is a hilarious rip-off. Yes, it sounds like a great concept until you realize why Monster's really doing it:... more » | Other threads
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diversifying
Monster Announces Wireless iPod Bridge
Monster, that company that makes "high end" cables that our readers L-O-V-E is looking to make something that's notable for its lack of cables: a wireless bridge for the iPod. Consisting of a dongle and a base station, it'll allow you to send music from your iPod to your stereo from up to 30 feet away on a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless frequency. No word on pricing, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that it'll be overpriced because of the brand. [Crave] -
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The Truth About Monster Cable - Grand Finale (Part III)
I warned you that it was back on. Monster's priciest—a $250 35-foot HDMI cable—goes toe-to-toe with Monoprice's longest and thickest—a $35 35-footer and a $53 50-footer. Which will win? Or more importantly, which will fail? Let's have a look, shall we?
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HDMI Cable Battlemodo Resumes
I just wanted to give you a heads- up that I will finally be posting the finale of our HDMI Cable Battlemodo today at 2 p.m. EST. Before you see the results, though, I wanted to take you through the testing process, so the results will make total sense. You with me? More » -
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Monster iCarPlay Tested with iPhone (Verdict: GSMBZZZZ)
Monster's iCarPlay tape adapter is total Apple Store iPhone retail bait. Why was it irresistible on checkout? Because fat-jack aside, my old one was highly susceptible to iPhone's self-inflicted GSM buzz: the dreaded EMI that speakers exhibit when placed near cellphones. Did this fix it? Despite the Compatible with iPhone sticker, NO NO NO NO NO NO! More » -
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Motorized Lego Monster Dino
The last time I played with Lego's my parents had to ask me what it was, since they couldn't even fathom a guess as to what I had created. If only I could have put together something as amazing as the motorized Lego Monster Dino. He walks, roars and definitely doesn't need an introduction. More » -
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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 » -
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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.)
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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.
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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 »
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peripherals
Monster Readies Apple TV Cable Lineup
It wasn't long after Apple TV finally began shipping that Monster decided to release some cables "specifically designed" for Apple TV. Best Buy employees across the nation will be trying to sucker you into buying the Monster iTV Component Video Cable for $40, iTV Fiber Optic Cable for $30, iTV HDMI Cable for $60, and the iTV Analog Audio Cable for $25. I'm more than sure that a set of basic cables will be sufficient, but if you enjoy being taken like a fool, then maybe check into these Monster Cables. More » -
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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 » -
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Monster AVL300 Crazy Remote Reviewed (Verdict: Looks Like Star Trek, Works Like Star Trek)
The Monster Central Control System AVL300 may look like a Phaser, but the only person you're going to kill is yourself. Why? Because if you can control everything in your house from your couch, you'll never get up again. More »
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CES 2007: Monster Central 300 Home/Theater Remote
The Monster Central Home Theater and Lighting Controller 300 (yes, that is the entire name) is a $600 uber-remote. Similar to a nice Logitech Harmony, you program devices via the web. Users can setup one-button theater modes and customize the menu display for each member in your household. More » -
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CES 2007: Monster iCarPlay Wireless 200 FM Transmitter
This iPod FM transmitter from Monster landed an innovation award from CES. Whaaa...? An iPod accessory landing an innovation award? Bullhookey, I tell you. This FM transmitter is a bit different than the average iPod FM transmitter. It has an AutoScan that will automatically scan all of the FM networks to find the clearest one to work with your iPod, and it will also display the station information on the actual iPod screen itself. Add in charging functionality and 3 programmable buttons makes this device pretty damn nice (except the $100 price tag). More »
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