Monster's POD Cleans Up Your Cable Clutter

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Monster's POD Cleans Up Your Cable Clutter

The skyrocketing popularity of home theater has brought a whole lot of new components into our living rooms. It used to mean a record player, cassette deck, receiver and a single pair of speakers. Now it's an A/V receiver with surround sound, HiFi VCR, DVD player, satellite receiver and maybe even a video game console. Add to that at least three additional speakers plus all the old gear you already have and you've got one complex home entertainment system.

This new abundance of electronic equipment has unlocked more entertainment options than we ever dreamed possible. But it has also unleashed a huge rat's nest of extra cables: one extra pair of audio cables for each of the new components plus a whole slew of video cables you never needed before. While not too many years ago you only needed a dozen or so cables to hook up your system, now it can easily take 50 or more. And there's almost no way you way you can make 50 cables look neat and tidy in your living room. Even the most sophisticated equipment rack can't contain them in a way that both reduces cable clutter while making it easy to reconfigure your components.

Enter the POD - Monster's integrated cable solution for home theater. Each POD contains a set of stereo audio cables and a composite video cable in a single, compact casing. Just switching to the POD, you can reduce most of the cable clutter in your system by two thirds.

Before and After with Monster POD
The POD is truly a new concept because it's the first integrated A/V cable built to Monster Cable's high performance standards. You've probably seen integrated audio/video cables before in the form of the black plastic cables that come packaged with most video components these days, including your VCR. But these cables are of the lowest possible quality, made from the cheapest materials and poor construction. They don't last very long and they rob your system of the sonic and visual fidelity you paid a lot of money to achieve.

But the POD incorporates the same advanced construction found in our Interlink® interconnects and Monster Video MiniÔ 3 cable. Even though it's very slim, the Video Mini 3 features double shielding that all but eliminates interference in the cable, pure copper conductors for maximum signal transfer and true 75-ohm construction that preserves every last bit of frequency response and picture detail that your equipment is capable of. The audio cables in the POD feature Monster's revolutionary XLN® (Xtra Low Noise) windings for low hum and buzz, a 100% coverage foil shield for low interference and channel crosstalk plus a balanced construction to help reject noise.

Every cable in the POD comes tipped with gold contact, color-coded RCA connectors that simplify hookup. The colors on each of the connectors match the colors of the jacks on your components. The gold plating and rugged design of these connectors maximize signal conductivity, eliminate corrosion and retain the impedance and frequency response of the cable for outstanding performance.

The Interlink AV POD 203 combines Monster Interlink 250 balanced conductors for left and right channel audio with a Video Mini 3 cable for excellent performance. For systems demanding maximum performance, the Interlink AV POD 403 features the same high quality Video Mini 3 cable with Monster Interlink 400 MkII audio cable technology. Interlink 400 MkII cables feature Bandwidth Balanced® construction with conductors specially wound for smooth frequency response and Time Correct® windings that incorporate multiple gauge wire networks that even out the transfer of high and low frequencies. The AV POD 403 also features Turbine Design® RCA connectors that use a shell with multiple diagonal cuts, like fingers instead of a single cylindrical collar, so that the connectors grip jacks tightly for maximum conductivity.