Monster Cables: King Kong's connectors

In a level of irony not seen since… well, this morning when Labour got voted back into power, DVD Players are now so cheap you can buy them for less than the discs you put inside. That doesn't stop aspiring Del Boys down London's Tottenham Court Road trying to sell us cables that reach upwards of £100 a metre though. "24k gold contacts," they boast, with the £ signs literally replacing their dilated pupils. "High velocity nitrogen cellular dielectric and 0.1% oxygen cores," they continue, upping the ante past the point where even they don't know what they're talking about. Crave just nods, quietly creeping out of the door and down to Argos to pick up a £5 Scart cable.

However, we're entering the digital world now, and since the kind bods at Monster sent over their new digital range of cables, we're reeling from the results. We've probably mentioned it enough already, but DVI and HDMI connectors are the SCART of the future. When you see it in action, the sharpness is so good it's like a layer of Vaseline has been removed from the screen.

Not that Monster's range is stupidly expensive -- they sell in Comet and the DVI400 is under £70 for 2 metres. Use one to connect a flatscreen or projector with Denon or Samsung's DVD Players, and you'll probably get away with telling your friends they're watching hi-def. -GC