On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:28:52 +0100, Robin Whitehead wrote:
>The message
> from "John@Shine-ola" contains these words:

>> Just wanted to endorse Richard's comments here - you may as well just take
>> the hundred bucks and set it on fire. It's marketing strategy from Hell and
>> it should be against the law. Some guy at an "upscale" stereo shop once
>> tried to sell me an S-Video cable for 200 bucks and I just about punched his
>> lights out.

>Nicely put! Cables for suckers, eh!
>You might be concerned about the cables if you were trying to connect
>1GHz signals, but at 5MHz it's no sweat. And even then the cable run
>is not exactly 100's of meters!
>
>"Good cable doth not maketh machine".

Good to see such sense!
In the audiomania world some of those same
cheap cables that nicely pass 5MHz video
signals are deemed hopelessly inadequate
to handle 20KHz audio signals...!!!
;-), ;-), ;-)