HDMI Cables

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LJ
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Nov 27, 2009 8:16pm
justincredible wrote:
LJ wrote:
justincredible wrote: Yeah, I've never needed customer service from monoprice either. I'll check out firefold but I think great customer service is overrated when you never need them anyway.
I don't think that's true. When you are ordering specialty items it's great to have them contact you and make sure it's what you needed.

Also, their cables are cheaper to begin with at Firefold.
What is shipping like on firefold?

I don't really order any specialty items, though. Just regular old cables.
For an HDMI cable it's like $2.50 to my zip
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Nate
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Nov 28, 2009 8:07am
Being an idiot and not knowing how long of a cable you need does not justify cause for them to have good customer service.
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Benny The Jet
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Nov 28, 2009 10:31am
wes_mantooth wrote: You guys are all crazy.....buy Monster cables.
I used to work at Best Buy in Home Theater. They used to push us SO hard to try and sell the Monster HDMI cables and Monster power strips. The markup is unreal on those, you should see what the price of the employee is vs. public price. Felt bad trying to talk people into buyin them.
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Nate
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Nov 28, 2009 10:32am
Benny The Jet wrote:
wes_mantooth wrote: You guys are all crazy.....buy Monster cables.
I used to work at Best Buy in Home Theater. They used to push us SO hard to try and sell the Monster HDMI cables and Monster power strips. The markup is unreal on those, you should see what the price of the employee is vs. public price. Felt bad trying to talk people into buyin them.
I'm always amazed at the people that actually buy them.
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LJ
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Nov 28, 2009 1:31pm
Keebler wrote: Being an idiot and not knowing how long of a cable you need does not justify cause for them to have good customer service.
I hope you work in the backroom and never deal with customers.

I dunno what your deal is. Firefold is cheaper and has better service than monoprice. What's the problem?
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OneBuckeye
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Nov 28, 2009 1:52pm
Anyone know the difference between 1.4 and 1.3a HDMI cables?
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OneBuckeye
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Nov 28, 2009 1:57pm
Found the answer on wikipedia... I wonder if there are any devices that use 1.4 technology yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
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wes_mantooth
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Nov 28, 2009 2:26pm
OneBuckeye wrote: Found the answer on wikipedia... I wonder if there are any devices that use 1.4 technology yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
I didn't read the article, but everytime they update them, they are always backward compatible. As long as the price is close to the same, I would buy the newer version.