This thing is THICK. The picture I get from it through my projector is FAR better than what my original cable was producing.This items is exactly what you expect and is the actual product shown in the photo.I disagree with some of the reviews that say this product does not include the pictured ferrite core. I ordered the product shipped by Amazon, not through Amazon Marketplace, and it came in a Startech labeled bag with a ferrite core attached.If I had to guess, the reviews that said that this product lacks the ferrite core may have come from reviewers/purchasers who may have purchased the "item" through Amazon Marketplace. Even though the product listing is for a specific manufacturer's product, some unscrupulous Amazon Marketplace sellers will link their cheaper generic products to a listing such as this, e.g. bait-and-switch. Buyers are lured by the cheaper price but end up with a lower quality product that isn't the actual product listed. Unfortunately, Amazon does not aggressively police this practice and compensate buyers for the hassle of dealing with such sellers who use Amazon Marketplace in this fashion. Amazon places the burden and hassle of this on the buyer. Amazon's management may look at Amazon Marketplace as an additional revenue source and probably wonders why they didn't think of it earlier, but eventually, when they're nailed by a group of state Attorneys General with being complicit in false advertising claims by unscrupulous Marketplace sellers, maybe they will think twice about how they manage Amazon Marketplace. While I have had some flawless transactions with some Marketplace sellers for items that Amazon itself does not carry, I've had more than my share issues with other Marketplace sellers. Amazon should rename Amazon Marketplace Amazon "Buyer Beware - Your On Your Own If You're Screwed"-Place.I bought this cable to replace 2 6 foot VGA cables, one VGA M-M and a VGA extension cable, so it could reach my HDTV from my PC. Those 2 were crappy quality and I had ghost cloning on everything, dark objects on a white background had a ghost effect repeating to their right side, it was driving me nuts. so I bought this cable. First thing I noticed when I booted up the PC is that those clone images were all gone, I was happy at first glance, but as it booted up to the Desktop, I noticed that the screen was shifted way over to the right side, I couldn't even see the clock or half of the gadget bar in Vista. I played with the video card resolutions and I noticed it was showing up as a default VGA monitor, and not as Westinghouse HDTV, like it did on my old cables. That meant that the EDID doesn't work on the cable. And I can only pick the closest resolution of 1360*768 instead of the TV's native resolution of 1366*768.I did solve the issue with the huge offset by actually going into the HDTV menu on the set and go into VGA settings, then click on the Autosync button in the menu and that recentered the screen perfectly.I purchased the 1’ cable believing that the cable itself was 1’. Instead, it’s a 9” cable and when you add on the length of the VGA adapters, the total length is 1’.This allowed me to move my monitor to the other side of the room. Worked great.I originally went to Best Buy to pick up a new 6' VGA cable to connect my PC to my 42" LCD TV (VGA inputs). They only had their own generic brand available, and wanted $25 for the cable. Frustrated, I also stopped in Radio Shack and walked out because they too wanted $25 for a video cable.I decided to visit Amazon and after reviewing several listings, I purchased this Startech monitor cable. It's hard to tell from the photo whether the quality of the cable would deliver a nice image. I am replacing another cable I bought over the web that was flimsy (thin) and delivered a sub par image - greenish and an strange yellow shadow behind all the images on screen. So this time I really wanted to find a cable that had a diameter like a dime, instead of a pencil - which I think is a good proxy for the overall quality of the materials used throughout the manufacturing process.I was very happy to see that the Startech cable is quite substantial in diameter and produced an excellent image on my 42" monitor. This cable performs very well and is a steal (I was able to get it for around $10) if you need to replace an OEM cable or if you bought a PC without a monitor and want to connect to a flat screen TV like me.The rating is not for the item advertised: the item advertised was a StarTech 6-Feet Coax High Resolution VGA Monitor Cable - HD15 M/M (MXT101MMHQ) but what I got was a 6-ft M/M VGA cable manufactured by 3C Cable City Corp. So the rating is for the cable received, with one star deducted for it not being the one ordered -- for the cable received does work and work well between the VGA port on my netbook and the VGA port on the VGA to S-Video/Composite Video adapter I bought it for.This, of course, would explain why some reviews are so negative: those unfortunates presumably were also not sent the cable ordered, and the one sent in those cases was not very good. So, here, the quality of the merchandise depends on what the seller decides to actually send, not on how well the item advertised is manufactured.About the product: Cable works fine, no noticable ghosting.About my experience (I am sharing this part because Bargaincell is the top listed purchase option for this item - does not enter into my rating of the product):Note that the photo shown on the Amazon website depicts a ferrite filter at one end. The cable that I received from Bargaincell did not have this. I contacted Bargaincell and they offered to credit me about 15% of my purchase price for the inconvenience. They told me it was a listing error. This occurred over a week ago and the listing on Amazon has still not been corrected.Note that I recently ordered a 6 foot shielded VGA cable They do the job, but the connectors and cable are all very bulky and heavy, meaning there's hardly any flex in the cable.Bought one of these extra long cables so that the computer could be fed to my TV that supports VGA (for Iplayer,etc.) In my case the computer also has a two way VGA port splitter so that the output can go to two monitors without fiddling about changing leads.Does the job well, with the cable running around the corner of the room, rather than forming a tripwire across the room. Can't imagine you would need such a length for any other purpose.This was needed to link a work laptop to a monitor found in the attic. Worked first time, so well worth it.Bought just for testing.Solid and sturdy cabling with equally top quality vga connection points. It is solid enough from accidental infringement of the cable. The newness of the cable does make it slightly rigid but that is just a quibble of an old codger like me in trying to run the cable into its position.