C4 tonight at 8.30...

....promises to investigate overpriced HDMI leads.

Bill

There was a comparison on watchdog house on Friday. They did a test with 3 people and 2 tvs and 6/10 chose the tv pic with the cheaper lead, £4 against £80

In article ,
sintv wrote:

There was a comparison on watchdog house on Friday. They did a test with
3 people and 2 tvs and 6/10 chose the tv pic with the cheaper lead

How do you get 6/10 with 3 people?

Of course, they were just as wrong as the ones who chose the other lead.

-- Richard

"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
...
In article
,
sintv wrote:

There was a comparison on watchdog house on Friday. They
did a test with
3 people and 2 tvs and 6/10 chose the tv pic with the
cheaper lead

How do you get 6/10 with 3 people?

Of course, they were just as wrong as the ones who chose
the other lead.



Slightly tangentially, has anyone seen the new advert for
some male lotion or other? The voiceover says most men
prefer this product but the text on screen says 73% of 50
men. Eh?


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:24:34 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

...promises to investigate overpriced HDMI leads.

I paid £1.50 for my last ones (1.8m, HDMI 1.4, delivered).
The one before that was £1.02 (1.8m, HDMI 1.3, delivered).

On 24/03/2014 15:58, sintv wrote:
There was a comparison on watchdog house on Friday. They did a test with 3 people and 2 tvs and 6/10 chose the tv pic with the cheaper lead, £4 against £80



which in a way makes no sense as assuming the leads work there would
have been no difference at all - unless there's a little pc in the lead
reprogramming the data.

--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message ...

....promises to investigate overpriced HDMI leads.

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Actually I think it promises to investigate the BS used to sell them

tim

In article ,
Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

I paid £1.50 for my last ones (1.8m, HDMI 1.4, delivered).
The one before that was £1.02 (1.8m, HDMI 1.3, delivered).

Out of three attached to my TV, only one worked reliably with audio
return channel. The one that worked was the cheapest, an Amazon
Basics one.

Some very cheap ones are of poor mechanical construction:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/hdmi.jpg

-- Richard

"Richard Tobin" wrote in message ...

In article ,
sintv wrote:

There was a comparison on watchdog house on Friday. They did a test with
3 people and 2 tvs and 6/10 chose the tv pic with the cheaper lead

How do you get 6/10 with 3 people?

Of course, they were just as wrong as the ones who chose the other lead.

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I assume you're implying that HDMI is the "wrong" way to connect two DTV
products together

Is so, OOI what's the correct way?

tim

Toolstation do some very good and inexpensive HDMI cables
that I have used with great success.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Elec.../sd3084/p10412


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com