Currys Sandstrom cables rip-off

SpammyTheSpammer

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

gold plated are much better - especially if they are sold with copper bottomed lies by a brass necked salesman....................

copper bottom!

Oldfatgrumpy

This reminds me of being told, in Richer Sounds, that the cause of the delay in vision replay from my TV causing sound syncing problems when playing DVDs was most likely a kink in the HDMI cable slowing down the video signal!

deanos

a £70 cable should be better build quaity wise over a 99p cable, i have had 99p cables fall to bits, but the picture quality will be identical, you pay a bit more for the quality of the cable around £8-10 gets a well made one, but you deffo dont need to spend £70

Jnelhams

Someone I know who is elderly has also been ripped off with same bull about HDMI needing this wonderful shiny boxed £90 cable, sadly he told me months after he brought the darn thing, other wise I would have been having one of Saturday morning mid-store rants, amazing how quickly they give you back your cash..... Seriously government need to do more to stop this targeting of elderly and disabled with snake oil by dodgy sales staff.

HDMI, USB, Optical, Digital Co-Ax it simply does not matter if you spend 99p or £1999 they do the same job, Analogue cables do suffer if they are poor quality, but even then for the average punter, they are not going to notice much of a difference with your normal hi-fi / video kit and a £5 cable over a £50 cable.

SuperHan

I think it makes a difference for 3D... From my own personal experience, I have had to go out and buy new cables for my 3D blu ray player, which wasn't a great quality using my old cheap HDMI cables. A more expensive seems to have solved the problem though....

dacouch

BBC Watchdog are doing a small feature on Currys and over priced HDMI cables tonight

philnicandevan

was a good watch & a result from watchdog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04654hq/watchdog-series-33-episode-4

MarkBargain

philnicandevan wrote: »

was a good watch & a result from watchdog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04654hq/watchdog-series-33-episode-4

It certainly was, with the majority of Currys / PC World filmed in the programme telling customers the expensive cables give better picture quality. They have offered to refund cables that were missold.

Shouldn't there be some sort of fine for blatently misleading the public in such a way?

Azari

MarkBargain wrote: »

It certainly was, with the majority of Currys / PC World filmed in the programme telling customers the expensive cables give better picture quality. They have offered to refund cables that were missold.

Shouldn't there be some sort of fine for blatently misleading the public in such a way?

There is actually a crime that goes by the pithy name of "Gaining a pecuniary advantage by deception".

This seems to fit that description.

However it would be hard to get Currys/PCW on that as you'd need to prove that they knew they were talking bollux and a most of their employees are so technically inept that that would be tricky.

Cycrow

SuperHan wrote: »

I think it makes a difference for 3D... From my own personal experience, I have had to go out and buy new cables for my 3D blu ray player, which wasn't a great quality using my old cheap HDMI cables. A more expensive seems to have solved the problem though....

Thats actually more to do with the standard of cable than the quality.

for a 3D signal you need a cable capable of doing HDMI 1.4

alot of the cheaper cables (especially older ones) are often HDMI 1.3.

As long as the cable is HDMI 1.4 then it should do 3D without a problem