Truth in Advertising- Wasting Money on Cables For Dummies
For the very first time I have actually seen honest packaging for high priced cables!
Observe the “HDTV Premium Cable Kit for Dummies” that I recently came across at Sears.
Included are:
- Two (2) 8-foot HDMI cables
- One (1) 10-foot HDMI cable
- Two (2) 8-foot component video cables
- One (1) digital coaxial cable
- One (1) 8-foot Toslink (optical digital) cable
- Cable ties
Price: regularly $129.99, now only $99.99!
You can get the same setup from monoprice.com for a lot less.
- Two (2) 8-foot HDMI cables: 2 x $5.54 each = $11.08
- One (1) 10-foot HDMI cable: 1 x $5.83 each= $5.83
- Two (2) 12-foot component video cables 2 x $3.95= $7.90
- One (1) digital coaxial cable 6-foot $3.74
- One (1) 12-foot Toslink (optical digital) cable $2.70
- Cable ties? Who cares?
Total: $31.25
Savings vs. suggested retail: $98.74
Looks like they are trying to take some dummies for around $100! Nice round number, eh?
Some readers find low priced HDMI cables too good to be true, after constant exposure to the expensive ones sold in stores. I recently received an email asking, “So you think a $6 cable will provide the same quality picture as a $60 HDMI cable?”
I don’t think… I KNOW. An HDMI connection is 100% digital, and with digital it is all or nothing. You either get a perfect picture or you do not get anything at all. It may seem too good to be true, but it is!
Don’t be a dummy- don’t buy expensive cables. Reject this cynical, shameless grab for cash perpetuated around a fraud. The reason stores don’t carry reasonably priced cables is they want you to assume all HDMI cables cost $50.00 or more. How is it that monoprice.com can run a booming business selling their cables so inexpensively, when everyone else is trying to take you for a dummy?
