Monster Cable is one of the Worst Companies in America™, as far as I'm concerned. Only ignorant consumer shits buy that garbage.
It stuns me that they still manage to get away with their sham claims that their digital video cables (HDMI, etc) will provide better picture quality than any others (due to their patented quad-flux interweave micron braided nitrous-injected mithril-shielded dynamic wavelength cable technology, or whatever else their marketing team has come up with this week), when by the very NATURE of digital video, the cable will either transfer the picture properly, or won't transfer it at all, without variation in picture quality.
This company has gotten away with deceiving and misleading easily persuaded and ill-informed consumers for too long, and I wish them the most catastrophic of closures.