[MatrixDweller]

I have a bunch of cables from them and also some faceplates. The aesthetics are not as nice as other cables or faceplates but they work. The faceplates are cheap plastic and not the same quality as Leviton, but they were a fraction of the price. They wouldn't stand up to heavy use (ie: a lot of plugging in and out by rough people) but for normal use they more than adequate.

I have a 25ft 22 WAG HDMI cable and it's not pretty like a monster cable, but it's run through a conduit and then hidden behind the projector at one end and attached to a faceplate on the other (ie: nobody sees it). It works flawlessly.

 

[MatrixDweller]

Based on the price, I assume most of their stock is made in China.

Even Leviton stuff is made in China, Shenzen I beleive.

Pretty much everything is made in China these days or at least some part of it is. It's really cheap to manufacture in China and good products can come out of there, but with a lot of quality assurance processing involved.

Companies are forced to look to China to stay competitive. If one company is doing it then all others have to follow suit if they want to stay in the game. Typically only higher end products, or products that cost too much to ship back and forth (ie: car chassis), are manufactured in North America, Europe and Japan.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/adv/bus03.shtm

 

[MatrixDweller]

I think the build quality and aesthetics are slightly better with Blue Jeans cables. Performance wise there would be no difference. Monoprice's cables are very generic looking. Also what might be metal or higher strength plastic in a more expensive cable (ie: some of the cable's connector) is lower end plastic with Monoprice's cable. If you are the type that fiddles with connections a lot then a sturdier connector is a good thing. The Monoprice HMDI cables I are all adequate and do their job 100%. I have a 25 foot 22AWG cable that runs to my projector and has never had and signal problems.