Monster Cable Z300VF-1M Z300 Ultra High-Performance Precision Video Cable With F-Pin Connectors (3.28 ft.)

Rating:
Summary: marked improvment in reception
Review: Cable TV reception in an urban area can be plagued with multi-path interference when the cable TV signals compete with the non-cable TV signals and create ghosts, vertical bars, and poor sound quality in low number channels. Portland area cable TV reception on ABC (channel 2 on non-cable but 4 on cable), CBS (8), and PBS (10) yielded poor quality picture and sound that were slightly improved when ATT cable replaced "stock cable" with a better quality cable during a service call, in which I was told that this was the best ATT could do. But after the ATT service call, reception was still poor and made college football games on ABC, pro football on CBS, and quality programming on PBS difficult to watch. I thought we would just have to get used to it or get rid of cable TV. Two Z300 Monster cables (one between the wall and the VCR and one between the VCR and TV) made a dramatic improvement. Sound is now perfect on all 3 troubled channels, CBS has a perfect picture while ABC and PBS are much better with minimal ghosting and vertical bars. In summary, the viewing quality has improved from poor to very good with these better shielded cables. I recommend a trial of Monster Z300 cables for persons who get poor cable TV reception, especially if the cable company says your cable signal is strong and the reception problem is signal interference.

Rating:
Summary: marked improvment in reception
Review: Cable TV reception in an urban area can be plagued with multi-path interference when the cable TV signals compete with the non-cable TV signals and create ghosts, vertical bars, and poor sound quality in low number channels. Portland area cable TV reception on ABC (channel 2 on non-cable but 4 on cable), CBS (8), and PBS (10) yielded poor quality picture and sound that were slightly improved when ATT cable replaced "stock cable" with a better quality cable during a service call, in which I was told that this was the best ATT could do. But after the ATT service call, reception was still poor and made college football games on ABC, pro football on CBS, and quality programming on PBS difficult to watch. I thought we would just have to get used to it or get rid of cable TV. Two Z300 Monster cables (one between the wall and the VCR and one between the VCR and TV) made a dramatic improvement. Sound is now perfect on all 3 troubled channels, CBS has a perfect picture while ABC and PBS are much better with minimal ghosting and vertical bars. In summary, the viewing quality has improved from poor to very good with these better shielded cables. I recommend a trial of Monster Z300 cables for persons who get poor cable TV reception, especially if the cable company says your cable signal is strong and the reception problem is signal interference.