Dirty stinking lying conmen

Dimple said:
Oh yeah, I went to Argos and bought a £4.99 lead which works great.
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£4.99 :eek:

You were conned again! lol

£1.25 incl postage for fleabay lol

I saw a family in a popular tv store who just got a new tv and whilst I was waiting for my wife to arrive I watched as the sales guy took them over to the hdmi cables. He then showed him one for £65.99 and said he NEEDED it for his tv.

After the sales man went over, I walked over to the man and told him politely that as he is a family man like myself I couldnt let him walk away being conned and explained to him that hdmi cables are digital and will either work or not, unlike older cables.

His reply...oh never mind I will have it anyway...I said at least get the cheaper one...he said oh I will just have this one(the £65.99)...:rolleyes:

OMG :mad:
 
You were definitely getting conned in the shop. I mean the guy was giving a demonstration of something completely different, but it wasn't even showing what he was actually trying to demonstrate.

As for cheap vs. expensive cables, I have been fine with cheap ones. Like someone mentioned, it's a digital signal, you either get the signal or you don't. For analog signals, it could be worth spending more cash on higher quality cables. For digital signals, cheap does fine.

HOWEVER, I have had one incident. I bought a cheap 5 meter long HDMI cable and the image on my TV had purple lines in it. Later I saw some review of people testing signals through different quality cables of different lengths, and as the length goes up the quality of the cable really starts to matter, although it also depends on the source that transmits the data through it. My old graphics card was basically inable to send the signal through the 5 meter cable, but a newer one was able to. So if you're going for a long cable, spend some more cash. If you need a 3 foot cable, get the cheapest one possible.
 
It's not all just 1's and 0's, picture or no picture.

See this branded aroudn far too much these days, then the next person told this just passes it on again.

Bah.
 
The only way it's ever going to make any difference is if the cable is corrupting the data. There's not going to be any difference at all between a decent and sensibly priced cable and the stupidly expensive cables that you can buy.
 
bledd. said:
Worth getting a £5 one online tbh. I've had 3 £1 ones stop working with my PS3 (artefacts). Now I Buy 'Orb' 1.4 HDMI cables. They look better built tbh
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Definitely agree with this. Bought a few very cheap HDMI leads at work and tried them on my PS3 and on some games (GT5 for example) the whole screen would flicker momentarily.

Swapped them out for some £12 jobbies and works a treat now with no flickering.
 
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