So there’s some sort of HDMI cable scam going on. I can get them at a cable store very near work for $10-20 but I think Best Buy sells them for about $50. I checked to see how much it would cost to buy an HDMI splitter, so I could play video from my DVR on one or both of the TVs I have in my “office” but it was a lot more expensive than I first thought. $58 at the cable store, and $39 for the same unit (or so it seems) at the computer store that’s 200 yards away. And I was told that HDMI splitters didn’t always work very well.<\/p>\n
They were right in one sense. The splitter quit working after about 20 minutes and I determined that the wall wart was dead. Time to see if I can exchange it for a working unit.<\/p>\n
And I still haven’t decided whether I’m going to Tokyo or not. Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So there’s some sort of HDMI cable scam going on. I can get them at a cable store very near work for $10-20 but I think Best Buy sells them for about $50. I checked to see how much it would cost to buy an HDMI splitter, so I could play video from my DVR on one or both of the TVs I have in my “office” but it was a lot more expensive than I first thought. $58 at the cable store, and $39 for the same unit (or so it seems) at the computer store that’s 200 yards away. And I was told that HDMI splitters didn’t always … Continue reading Electronics are a mystery to me.<\/span>