Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
As usual we're right and Bluce is wrong. You'd think we would have learned not to even try by now.
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As usual we're right and Bluce is wrong. You'd think we would have learned not to even try by now.
We buy cabling at Monoprice as well. Great prices and they support their products, too. They're also based in the U.S. (in beautiful Rancho CUCAmonga!)There's an electronics store around the corner from here. HDMI starts at $7.
You can find HDMI cables cheap just about anywhere except most American retail electronic chains.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240
Well, not "as usual". But he would be wrong if he claimed that the strength of the signal (above bare minimum standard) had any bearing whatsoever on the digital data being carried. The data is either readable or it is not. Black and white. 1s and 0s.
He's no doubt trying to justify spending $1000 on HDMI cables, but like I try to tell him, when you're Romney rich you don't have to justify anything to anyone.
Exactly right. Marketing people prey on the average person's stupidity and that represents a significant market share in America. Back in the analog days it was true but digital data either gets there or doesn't. Like Ape said, there's no such thing as degradation of quality in the case of HDMI.
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Goddammit who is this Romney rich guy you keep talking about? Maybe he can loan me some money. I want a new car!!
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Yep, but try telling that to the "experts" selling $500 HDMI cables at Best Buy Magnolia Home Entertainment! . They will go on about how the signal "gets weaker" with a long cable run. Like a massive 9' stretch. Those arguments did hold in the analog days. They still somewhat apply to network ethernet cables. But you have to stretch 600' before it becomes an issue. They want to convince people that having ACTUAL GOLD (omg omg, GOLD!) plating on the connectors or silver alloys in the cable is going to be worth paying a markup of over 2000%
So, if I understood you guys, mortgaging my home right through to my grandchildren for top of the line HDMI cables that are gold latinum filament wiring laced with platinum tips sheathed in rare Galapagos dragon skin covered turtle shell inner casing was a bad idea and won't make my shows look better?
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So, if I understood you guys, mortgaging my home right through to my grandchildren for top of the line HDMI cables that are gold latinum filament wiring laced with platinum tips sheathed in rare Galapagos dragon skin covered turtle shell inner casing was a bad idea and won't make my shows look better?
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Where's Morn when you need him?Don't forget dude, some of this comes down to the salespeople simply not being trained right as well, and why would companies bother when the outdated info they are working with gets them that 2000% margin.
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GOLD PRESSED LATINUM!!!
geez man, all that time in Panama has been messing with your mind
GOLD PRESSED LATINUM!!!
geez man, all that time in Panama has been messing with your mind
Yeah, yeah. I was typing this on glass using Android.
Yep, but try telling that to the "experts" selling $500 HDMI cables at Best Buy Magnolia Home Entertainment! . They will go on about how the signal "gets weaker" with a long cable run. Like a massive 9' stretch. Those arguments did hold in the analog days. They still somewhat apply to network ethernet cables. But you have to stretch 600' before it becomes an issue. They want to convince people that having ACTUAL GOLD (omg omg, GOLD!) plating on the connectors or silver alloys in the cable is going to be worth paying a markup of over 2000%
Dude, even I consider you Romney rich! . Need a valet or a chauffeur?
Glass??
Some kind of Panamanian designer drug I imagine.................
They use crumbled glass in salads when they run out of croutons. Not bad but, apparently, not good for one's long term health.
Salad? SALAD???
How pedestrian of you
Goddammit who is this Romney rich guy you keep talking about? Maybe he can loan me some money. I want a new car!!
Just bustin' your balls dude. After all, I no longer have a Dutch SOB to keep me sharp so I've got to find someone to practice on.
Speaking of which, I saw a couple of these down here and I've been seriously contemplating getting myself one sooner than later:
http://web.maserati.com/maserati/en/en/index/models/Quattroporte-S.html
As long as you don't have to lay off one of the penthouse maids I say go for it!