Why Is This HDMI Cable So Expensive? | Best Buy Rocketfish Review
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2021
- I'm a sucker for a good deal - and I hate getting ripped off. So when I found out that a cable I bought for $8 is being sold for $60, I had to dig a little deeper. Here's an in-depth look at Rocketfish, Best Buy's in-house brand of electronic accessories.
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I thought you were going to do a real actual test on the cable
You're absolutely right! I came across this video because I found one of those Rocketfish cables on the back of my 90 year old mother's TV and didn't know what it was. Now I know and now I'm a more well informed tech shopper. Thanks for the video!
I’d be wary of this “Amazon” age because so many listings on there have been of fake products and I’ve been screwed over because a 3rd party vendor wasn’t being transparent.
I've always had great usage with Monster Cables....picture quality is great and built to last a long time
Came here just to say thank you and to anyone else who arrives here....
I'm 44 and I build PC's. You should raise the age limit on tech savvy to 55+ xD
Best Buy make their money on selling their marked up peripherals and extended warranty instead of selling appliances, computers, blurays, etc. just like how gas stations make money selling their wholesale goods i.e. chips, candy, soda, carwash, etc. instead of selling fuel.
I wonder if the consistency of the signal is any better with a big end cable
Have you seen anyone do a test on this cable?? I just bought the 4Ft length one for my Ps5 In my tcl R646 120 frame rate capable tv!
You are correct. People in an older age bracket will go to a Best Buy for help finding the right thing that they know nothing about. I'm in that age group, but I don't understand why more people don't comparison shop online, reading more than one review of a product to see if it's worth getting (and I don't mean just Amazon reviews, though some of those are very useful I admit). Things like cables can be way over-priced as you point out, and some people equate higher price with quality which is not that often the case
i just bought a rocketfish 8K ultra high speed hdmi cable from bestbuy and the box says 8 foot i get home and open it ITS A 4 FOOT CABLE in a 8 foot box!!!
Comparing like for like specs against other “name brands” like Belkin or Monster, Rocketfish is in the same price category. At $49 for an 8’ 48Gbps cable that should last at least ten years, it’s cheap piece of mind. $4.99/year is justifiable IMHO. I’d rather have that than a cable that will either die or be outdated in a couple years when we switch to 8K viewing standards. Thank you for sharing your opinion with us.
Bought 2.The connectors were the most solid of the bunch.After reconnecting with others..these were the best sounding.Try for the best sound,other than specs.
Buying high end electronics = buying high end accessories. Not really sure what your expertise is in but I'm a "older" person and I can tell you with 100% certainty that RF is worth the money. It's kind of like saying a Corvette is the same as a Ford Focus because they both go down the road.
What you said about the target consumer of Best Buy is spot on. With regards to Geek squad; I admittedly don’t have experience dealing with them, but they’re either not knowledgeable or they’re knowingly pushing products that are overpriced which seems hard to believe unless they get commission or something.. I know some home theatre people think it’s worth spending big money on HDMI and in some cases those cables have a lower failure rate, but not by much or those cables work better at longer lengths.
I'm trying to get a compatible hdmi cable for my panasonic ub900 player. I can get this on the cheaper. I'm just having issue where some of the 4k bluray are returning to home just before the menu pops up.
Who's is this cable for? I bought 2 the other day, cause it was 50 percent off, and I needed them that minute.
I think the rocket fish made your video look crisper as in you can see it was a good quality video recorder.
Im happy with GE cheaper and better i think.
I've never used Rocketfish, but I do know this. You can't test a cable on a video you shot using low tech. The video will only be as good as the lowest quality element you use. That is why both your videos look grainy. I have seen the different between a twelve dollar cable and a two hundred dollar cable (Cinnamon-AudioQuest), it's staggering. Of course it was tested on a High quality OLED with a 4k source. There is also equipment out there which gives you performance numbers to back up the information on the box ( that is really the only way to test). As an old person, even I know that... There is so much to consider when buying an HDMI cable, like how much distance do you need to cover? Will it be mostly for tv or also for music? Is it going into a wall? What type of resolution do you need/want? At some point, the cable will max out on video, but the ability to make a crisper, cleaner sound goes on forever, and you can pay a thousand dollars a cable and get noticeable differences. I guess the good thing about being old, is I have the wisdom and the money to figure this out without taking the word of some, hmmm how do I say this nicely.... some snot-nose little brat....ha ha