{"id":816,"date":"2007-02-25T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/25\/hdmidvi-cable-prices\/"},"modified":"2007-02-25T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:33:58","slug":"hdmidvi-cable-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/25\/hdmidvi-cable-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"HDMI\/DVI Cable Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy price gauging Batman!\u00a0 Has anyone seen the prices of HDMI cables at Best Buy (presumably the same at other electronics stores)?\u00a0 Yesterday I was in Best Buy to pick up a DVI (HD cable box out) to HDMI (TV in) for my new Sony 40\u2033 BRAVIA V-Series HDTV (KDL-40V2500), but was shocked at the prices of HDMI cables.\u00a0 We are talking about $80 or so for a \u201clow end\u201d cable, while the top end cables will set you back about $145 (plus tax).\u00a0 There is also the $35 to be spent on the DVI to HDMI adaptor.<\/p>\n<p>This is completely insane.\u00a0 First, I spend two grand on a TV.\u00a0 Next I spend some money to upgrade to Charter HD service.\u00a0 Now I have to spend another $100-200 on cables.\u00a0 Where does it end?\u00a0 I assume if later this year I decided to pick up a 360 or PS3, I will have to spend even more money on more digital cables.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing some reading\/research at it seems there are two camps.\u00a0 The first firmly believes that spending top dollar on high-end cables such as those provided by Monster are an absolute necessity.\u00a0 The other camp believes that a digital cable is a digital cable (assuming reasonable cable length), and you should go as cheap as possible.\u00a0 I sure hope that the latter is correct because I do not want to spend this much money on cables.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy price gauging Batman!\u00a0 Has anyone seen the prices of HDMI cables at Best Buy (presumably the same at other electronics stores)?\u00a0 Yesterday I was in Best Buy to pick up a DVI (HD cable box out) to HDMI (TV in) for my new Sony 40\u2033 BRAVIA V-Series HDTV (KDL-40V2500), but was shocked at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/25\/hdmidvi-cable-prices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HDMI\/DVI Cable Prices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}