HDMI cables

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"Rob" wrote in message
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wall plate HDMI socket. ?

http://www.datapro.net/products/1160.html
Mount it on a blanking plate?

Excellent TVM Gentlemen

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:05:58 +0100, "Pyriform"
wrote:

Peter wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:16:53 +0100, "Chas Gill"
wrote:

Rather than get involved in a similar thread which is beginning to
meander, does anyone have a comment about the alleged need for a
high quality HDMI cable (between the Sky HD box and the telly).
Whilst I appreciate that the bandwidth of the HD data stream
probably requires a certain minimum standard, is there any
justification for a 1.5m cable that costs 80 quid (which my local
SONY dealer insists I need)?

No, but try a cheap set of cables first - if they prove
unsatisfactory, then purchase the expensive type from your Sony
dealer.

If the cheap one is unsatisfactory, it is unfit for purpose and should be
returned whence it came. It should then be substituted for one which meets
the required specification and therefore works. There are no circumstances
under which the purchase of the £80 Sony cable would be justified.

Fair enough - can't argue with that.

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Cheers

Peter

Please remove the invalid to reply

"Peter" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:05:58 +0100, "Pyriform"
wrote:

Peter wrote:
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:16:53 +0100, "Chas Gill"
wrote:

Rather than get involved in a similar thread which is beginning to
meander, does anyone have a comment about the alleged need for a
high quality HDMI cable (between the Sky HD box and the telly).
Whilst I appreciate that the bandwidth of the HD data stream
probably requires a certain minimum standard, is there any
justification for a 1.5m cable that costs 80 quid (which my local
SONY dealer insists I need)?

No, but try a cheap set of cables first - if they prove
unsatisfactory, then purchase the expensive type from your Sony
dealer.

If the cheap one is unsatisfactory, it is unfit for purpose and should be
returned whence it came. It should then be substituted for one which meets
the required specification and therefore works. There are no circumstances
under which the purchase of the £80 Sony cable would be justified.

Fair enough - can't argue with that.

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Cheers

Peter

To be fair, it wasn't actually as SONY cable. IIRC it was made by
Vivanco(?), but on sale in the SONY shop.

Said salesman was trying to be helpful (oh, yeah!) by asking me what boxes I
had,so that he could put together a box of connecting cables "so that I
would have everything I needed when the telly arrived". Who knows what
that little lot would have cost.

Can't blame him for trying, I suppose.

Chas