Boring Techie question re DVD connections

[Easy 10]

This is the real reason I started this thread. Marvellous.

*pulls up chair*

 

[Marc]

*pulls up chair next to Easy and hands out bowl of crisps with dip *

 

[REDLAND]

I'm bored of this I'm afraid chaps, it was funny first time out but theres no arguing with ignorance ..

 

[Cian]

I'm bored of this I'm afraid chaps, it was funny first time out but theres no arguing with ignorance ..

Yeah, I should have realised that some time ago, probably the first time you went off on an Applewank on here.

 

[Monkster]

*pulls up chair next to Easy and hands out bowl of crisps with dip *

*Gets comfortable, beer anyone*

 

[London Calling]

so you're telling me I wasted £30 on my gold plated HDMI cables with their lovely cord finish and excellent build quality

 

[Titanic]

so you're telling me I wasted £30 on my gold plated HDMI cables with their lovely cord finish and excellent build quality

No.... or Yes... I think.

 

[REDLAND]

so you're telling me I wasted £30 on my gold plated HDMI cables with their lovely cord finish and excellent build quality

probably, decent HDMI cables are only required for the longer cable runs or high bandwidth connections above 1080p24 etc ..

most HD Ready connections will work fine with a cheepo cable from sainsbos etc ..

 

[Cian]

so you're telling me I wasted £30 on my gold plated HDMI cables with their lovely cord finish and excellent build quality

Possibly. If the connectors on your devices are not gold plates in themselves, you are in fact damaging them with the gold cables (gold is not galvanically compatible to tin/nickel); if the connectors *are* gold plated, you're meant to use gold plated cables

But rememember the gold connectors are still attached to the cable with the exact same type of solder as nickel ones are... it only has to do with wear and tear, not "signal quality", which doesn't matter on purely digital connections anyway.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

anyone know where I can get a good coaxail cable for my Ferguson TV

 

[Cian]

Maplins. WF100 and old-fashioned metal Belling Lee plugs and make it yourself.

 

[Simster]

Is it me, or does REDLAND *always* lose these comedy encounters.

I'm pulling up a chair next to Easy and Marc and watching the BINFEST on my GEEKTRON CENTRAL.

 

[Gazwag]

so you're telling me I wasted £30 on my gold plated HDMI cables with their lovely cord finish and excellent build quality

absolutely not gold ones look much nicer than silver, its the black casing that spoils it, I have taken the black casing off mine, those gold wires now look ace

 

[John Bumlick]

 

[Easy 10]

I bloody love this thread.

Sorry.