On Friday, 26 January 2018 11:59:56 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 11:01:27 UTC, Fredxx wrote:
On 25/01/2018 21:19, Roger Hayter wrote:
Dave W wrote:
On 22/01/2018 10:23, dennis@home wrote:
On 22/01/2018 07:10, tabbypurr wrote:


I don't treat them as a source at all. Last time I went there they
were selling leads for north of £20 a piece. I can pay a tenth of
that elsewhere.

If they are HDMI then they are £1 in poundland.

Yes but the HDMI lead I bought from Poundland led to strange things
happening because the internal wires had no screening or twisting. I
eventually went crestfallen to pay Maplin's ransome. I minimised this by
being adamant with the salesman I didn't need gold plating.

Actually (decent) gold plating is quite a good idea for signal integrity
medium/long term. But *only* if the mating socket is gold plated.
Which most of them aren't.

Most gold plating is a very thin layer,

Yes it's amazing how cheap gold foil can be having brought some gold foil that I'm trying to stick to an electroscope !!!!

electroplating is many times thinner


NT