In message on Fri, 4 Mar 2011 00:18:58 +0000
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Arny Krueger
writes:
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They don't baulk at a SCART or HDMI lead that costs more
than the equipment connected.

Not if you know where to buy them. Unfortunately, not any local
brick-and-mortar store that I know of.


Well, they tend to be concrete (or whatever old Woolworth's stores were
built of), but poundshops (or 99p shops) sell SCART leads. Sure, not the
highest quality! But they do for a lot of purposes. Tend not to use any
screened cables, though the ones I've seen have at least been fully
wired (i. e. all 20/21 pins).

I _think_ I've seen HDMI ones in a similar outlet. Probably of similar
quality (i. e. certainly not high in technical terms, but not as bad as
you'd think, certainly mechanically).

Ah yes! Wonderful places, those pound shops!

Despite carrying around a large drum of Cat5E plus plugs and tools to match, I bought
some 5m ethernet patch cords at a pound shop a few years ago.

It was so much easier when carrying out testing and upgrade work to spot my
Red/Green/Blue/Orange/Yellow cables amongst the sea of grey on a congested patch panel!

It is also much easier to see which USB cable is which when under the desk peering round
the back of the PC when the printer, scanner, etc., are all different brightly coloured
cables (from the same source) - beats trying to read labels!

I invested five euros on an extention mains lead in the Netherlands, I cut the Shuko
connectors off and just used the cable - 10 metres @ 50c/metre - and could instantly spot
it anywhere because it was bright yellow!

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Terry