Do leads affect the life of a TV?
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Was in Comet today looking at possibly buying a new 32" TV. The sales geek came up to me asking why I needed a new TV. I explained that the old one had packed in after 4 years. He then goes onto explain that it was most probably the leads that we have as they are the standard issue ones that came with the Sky HD box, Wii, DVD, etc and that they dry out the circuits inside the TV. If we buy more expensive leads this is less likely to happen.
My initial thought about this is that this is the sales geek trying to make more money on the sale if he gets one. Or is this true? Please advise.
My initial thought about this is that this is the sales geek trying to make more money on the sale if he gets one. Or is this true? Please advise.
sherman said:
RosscoPCole said:
Thought it was a pile of poo!
Do more expensive leads give a better quality picture?
The more expensive ones are gold coated and so give better electrical contact so yes.Do more expensive leads give a better quality picture?
Generally speaking the 'Gold' interconnects are better mainly because of the better quality of cable used within.
As for them making your TV go faulty, well it may mean you have to re gas your TV every 6 months otherwise you end up with spiders in them
RosscoPCole said:
Was in Comet today looking at possibly buying a new 32" TV. The sales geek came up to me asking why I needed a new TV. I explained that the old one had packed in after 4 years. He then goes onto explain that it was most probably the leads that we have as they are the standard issue ones that came with the Sky HD box, Wii, DVD, etc and that they dry out the circuits inside the TV. If we buy more expensive leads this is less likely to happen.
My initial thought about this is that this is the sales geek trying to make more money on the sale if he gets one. Or is this true? Please advise.
My initial thought about this is that this is the sales geek trying to make more money on the sale if he gets one. Or is this true? Please advise.
thanks for that, cheered me up on whats looking like a s
t day !dry out the circuits...
Apparently, and I'll stand corrected, as the lads on the shop floor sell fewer extended warranties, they now get paid serious commission to flog Monster cables as and when they can.
An old lady came in to my shop yesterday to tell me she had been charged £72.00 for a SCART cable on the £45.00 DVD player she had bought. She was told it was nigh on essential to ' make it work properly'
Glad to see they've really changed!
An old lady came in to my shop yesterday to tell me she had been charged £72.00 for a SCART cable on the £45.00 DVD player she had bought. She was told it was nigh on essential to ' make it work properly'
Glad to see they've really changed!
headcase said:
sherman said:
RosscoPCole said:
Thought it was a pile of poo!
Do more expensive leads give a better quality picture?
The more expensive ones are gold coated and so give better electrical contact so yes.Do more expensive leads give a better quality picture?
Generally speaking the 'Gold' interconnects are better mainly because of the better quality of cable used within.
As for them making your TV go faulty, well it may mean you have to re gas your TV every 6 months otherwise you end up with spiders in them
However, the reason a thin layer of gold is used is usually not directly to do with conductivity as a brass (or whatever) plug brand spanking new and polished will be just as good without. Gold is used for it's lack of reactivity. In this sense it doesn't tarnish of corrode, therefore a few years on where another connector may have a thin layer of oxidisation caused by humid air, the gold will make a cleaner connection.
I would agree though that usually if someone has gone to the effort to plate the connectors, that the quality of the cable itself would be superior.
headcase said:
Gold plated connectors rarely have any Gold in them, they use a gold coloured material to make people think they are buying a difference. For the record B&Q sell a range of scart cables that are utterly poo including one with very crappy cable and gold coloured connectors
So you are saying that in the huge majority of cases companies are fraudulently representing their goods....?I have a number of gold terminated cables and silver for that matter, and they are all of the real metal. In the case of the gold ones it is 24k. As it can be plated so thinly the cost of doing it is not that expensive anyway.
If you are talking about very low end cables then of course it might be any old crap. But anything of a half decent standard which specifies gold, will be.
RosscoPCole said:
Was in Comet today looking at possibly buying a new 32" TV. The sales geek came up to me asking why I needed a new TV. I explained that the old one had packed in after 4 years. He then goes onto explain that it was most probably the leads that we have as they are the standard issue ones that came with the Sky HD box, Wii, DVD, etc and that they dry out the circuits inside the TV. If we buy more expensive leads this is less likely to happen.
My initial thought about this is that this is the sales geek trying to make more money on the sale if he gets one. Or is this true? Please advise.
I'll hold 'im, you 'it 'im!My initial thought about this is that this is the sales geek trying to make more money on the sale if he gets one. Or is this true? Please advise.
What a load of utter total b
ks. People who offer this sort of sales patter should be executed by being fed live to a tank full of hungry piranha.Gassing Station | Home Cinema & Hi-Fi | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff