Mediabridge HDMI Review

As quickly as HDMI is coming on as the home media cabling standard there are as many companies and brands throwing their hat into the ring. One brand is Mediabridge. We’ll be looking at this brand and series of cables in this Mediabridge HDMI review.

Mediabridge sells good quality HDMI cables at a discounted price. A majority of their sales come through online stores and online dealers. Finding their website to buy direct is nearly impossible, but as with most discount online companies this is not at all uncommon. Possibly because they would rather ship direct and leave it at that, or they are owned by another parent company. The reasons vary and if it was not so uncommon I’d be alarmed. Unfortunately it is not uncommon at all. So relax, you’re not funding the mob or a Sicilian dwarf mafia.

The length of these cables vary from simple 3’ cables to the super long 25’ cable. Typically speaking, all of these cables work fine. There have been no reported problems that we can find with the longer cables. Sometimes this is a problem, with Mediabridge this is a non-issue.

The Monster M1000 HD-25 cable is their flagship product. This is billed as the ultimate high speed HDTV HDMI cable in production. This statement is open for debate, but a majority of their customers who have conducted a Mediabridge HDMI review seem to think that if it is not, they don’t really care; the love the quality.

The biggest sell on HDMI is the singularity factor. Being able to use one cable for all your audio and video needs. The HD-25 series transmits Blu-Ray signal with less signal loss than a majority of its competition. This goes to picture clarity and speed of transfer producing a clear, crisper picture.

Mediabridge advertises that their cables are all certified by HDMI labs to be category 2. This is important when you realize the top potential for category 1 is a 1080i resolution. A category 2 HDMI cable is capable of throughput of a 1080p picture, which is the newest high standard. You have to love all these numbers, so let me break it down a little further; they go fast. Me like. Good picture.

All mediabridge cables are 24K gold plated. This isn’t for looks folks, this is for connectivity. It’s the gold content of their top of the line cables that make them a little expensive. The offsetting factor to the cost is quality. Anything less than gold could result in signal loss. You can buy something inferior and you probably wouldn’t notice the difference until you switch to a gold tipped cable.

Mediabridge does have some critics, what company doesn’t? I won’t ever out and out tell anyone what to buy, it’s just not in my nature, but I will leave you with one final though. For quality and affordability of that quality, this Mediabridge HDMI review calls these cables a solid buy.