Those were use by Michael Jackson on his last Moonwalk, and are worth every
penny. If you are a big fan of pedophiles, anyway.
Do a search on those and read the reviews. They are hilarious.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Picking a new notebook
Indeed, if you shop smart you can find good values in all types of cables,
such as this speaker cable for a whopping $1650 off the retail price:
http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-speaker-cable/dp/B000J36XR2/
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Rob Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
To be fair, you can find HDMI cables for $85 too, and you can get
DisplayPort cables for $6 from Monoprice. I'm not claiming one
technology
or monitor is better than the other, just that the cable point is a
non-issue. You just have to shop smart.
Rob
Jonathan Berry wrote:
DisplayPort versus the old ways
Thanks for the heads-up. I had read the wiki page on DisplayPort, but
nothing really caught my imagination. Here's the scheme:
I have a perfectly good HDMI monitor and a cable that cost $4.50.
The per-unit royalty on HDMI is something like 4 cents.
Here's a 6-ft Display Port to HDMI cable that costs
$85:
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=40646&vpn=DP2HDMIMM6&manufacture=Startech.com%20Ltd
Or if I want to get a DisplayPort monitor and pay a mere $24 for
the cable, I'm looking at $400 for a 1920x1200 screen:
http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=45554&vpn=NL773A8#ABA&manufacture=Hewlett%20Packard
There are cheaper screens, but they don't have so many pixels. Do you
really want to get an external monitor that's only, say, 1680x1050 ?
I sure hope that DisplayPort has some breathtaking
advantages over the old technology. DisplayPort could turn
out to be the best thing since sliced bread. Or it could
turn out to be a bit of a dud, like hand scanners or DL
DVD+-R disks or DVD-RAM or bubble memory or 5" diskettes
(not to be confused with 5.25" floppies) ....
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