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) .... >> > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
