HDMI FOR €1.50

cathy01

My local €1.50 shop in millfield Balbriggan are selling the HDMI cables .It says suitable for 3 D.
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thenightrider

cathy01 wrote: »

My local €1.50 in Balbriggan are selling the HDMI cables .It says suitable for 3 D.
Cathy

Your local what ?

PseudoFamous

sugarman wrote: »

Local €1.50 store, whats hard to understand?

I've never even heard of a shop called "€1.50", so the OP sounded like a massively disjointed sentence to me

RobertFoster

thenightrider wrote: »

Your local what ?

Pub.

"I'll have 2 pints, a packet of cheese and onion, and a HDMI cable, please Mick." :pac:

cathy01

Fixed now I left out the word shop it's called a one fifty shop second level in milfield. They also have hdmi interface-to-DVI video adapter. Kindle covers iPad 2 covers all for €1.50

Jesus Shaves

cathy01 wrote: »

Fixed now I left out the word shop it's called a one fifty shop second level in milfield. They also have some type of hdmi to computer adaptor. Kindle covers iPad 2 covers all for €1.50

Is it dealz?

cathy01

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

cathy01 wrote: »

Fixed now I left out the word shop it's called a one fifty shop second level in milfield. They also have some type of hdmi to computer adaptor. Kindle covers iPad 2 covers all for €1.50

Is it dealz?

No it really is called the €1.50 shop it's the €2.00 shops only cheaper that's isn't supposed to sound rude . They have lots of computer and camping stuff but I was looking in tesco and the hdmi cable is normally about €20.00

Headshot

i was hoping it'd be the 3 fiddy store

Run by Nessy

cathy01

I put all the details in . OMG you'd think I was selling them.

Onikage

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

Is it dealz?

Dealz is a €1.49 store. Would have been called Oneeurofortynineland but those geeks in marketing said it was "awkward"

Kintarō Hattori

There is also one of these shops in the Ilac Centre if Balbriggan is a little far for most people. :pac:

the groutch

Headshot wrote: »

i was hoping it'd be the 3 fiddy store

Run by Nessy

I was in one of those, and got my revenge by buying 9 items, giving him €35, and asking for my change

Nollog

http://euro50stores.com/uro_50_Stores.html
These fellows.
It's a pretty good shop, at least the one in Clonmel is.

I personally don't spend less than €20 on my HDMI cables. The quality of the €1.50/2 ones are just horrible* this is a much better option http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINX-HDMI-Cable-Premium-Plated/dp/B000H8TQL4

*this may or may not be a complete lie...

Schorpio

Liam O wrote: »

I personally don't spend less than €20 on my HDMI cables. The quality of the €1.50/2 ones are just horrible* this is a much better option http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINX-HDMI-Cable-Premium-Plated/dp/B000H8TQL4

*this may or may not be a complete lie...

gomara

..............then I believe you're wasting at least €18.50 per cable. HDMI is a Digital Signal and is basically on or off, so either it works or it doesn't. While there may be some question as to whether a 'cheap' cable may be more prone to breakage, or possibly interference, this would be noticeable by dropped frames, pixellation or sparklies on screen. Having bought and used at least 4 HDMI cables from Dealz at €1.49 I see no such issues. AVReview in the UK, after a test of various cost cables, concluded "Not even a blind comparison test … could reveal any obvious differences in performance between these interconnects". Any suggestion that expensive, gold-plated, top-of-the-range HDMI cables will improve your picture quality is suspect at best, and is definitely Manufacturer hype. DO you have any evidence for your comment "The quality of the €1.50/2 ones are just horrible", and what do you mean by quality?

ando

Schorpio wrote: »

CuppaCocoa

I bought one of these in the shop in the Ilac Centre on Saturday. It's made by Belkin and the original price sticker was on it of £21.99 :eek: Not bad for €1.50!

dodzy

Liam O wrote: »

I personally don't spend less than €20 on my HDMI cables. The quality of the €1.50/2 ones are just horrible* this is a much better option http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINX-HDMI-Cable-Premium-Plated/dp/B000H8TQL4

*this may or may not be a complete lie...

Only 20€ ? Pfffft. Get with the program and grab yourself a few of these babies: http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Audio-Ethernet-Connection/dp/B003CT2A6I/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Deal made so much sweeter with free shipping !

EDIT: Just read a few of the 50 available reviews. Fecking hialrious! reminds me of the "3 wolves" Tee shirt reviews a while back.

nice1franko

Liam O wrote: »

I personally don't spend less than €20 on my HDMI cables. The quality of the €1.50/2 ones are just horrible* this is a much better option http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINX-HDMI-Cable-Premium-Plated/dp/B000H8TQL4

*this may or may not be a complete lie...

It's the industry's worst kept secret that there is no difference between cheap and expensive cables

https://www.google.ie/search?q=cheap+hdmi+cable

oneweb

No no no, you all need ONE OF THESE*!!!!1!!one

Granted there may be versions of HDMI that support different functions but a HDMI cable 1.5 metres long doesn't need gold plating.

Good find, Cathy, I've bought micro usb cables in the Ilac-equivalent for eur1.50 too, does the job nicely and no waiting weeks for shipping from Hong Kong

*See Liam O's disclaimer

PseudoFamous

oneweb wrote: »

No no no, you all need ONE OF THESE*!!!!1!!one

why does that cable have the ability to tell you that the source is 4K, when a HDMI cable can't even transfer that?

Kristopherus

Liam O wrote: »

I personally don't spend less than €20 on my HDMI cables. The quality of the €1.50/2 ones are just horrible* this is a much better option http://www.amazon.co.uk/LINX-HDMI-Cable-Premium-Plated/dp/B000H8TQL4

*this may or may not be a complete lie...

Indeed it is a lie:D. Only a fool would spend that kind of money on a hdmi cable unless it was a very long one (which would be useless as it would lose signal quality). The €2 hdmi cable is just as good as the €20 cable. If you dont believe me have a look at the Cable & Digital TV forum where the issue has been discussed on several occasions. You may have to do a search.

RUCKING FETARD

Lidl had great 1.5m HDMI Cables a few months back for €6 that had a 90 degree twistie connector on the end, so if you have a tv that you needed to pust it up into or just into, it'd do both, takes some of lean pressure off the connection on the TV.

Nonoperational

I think Liam O knows that lads...

JustAddWater

Slightly OT lads but the site is under construction.. Does anyone know if these lads stock HDMI splitters? I have only 1 HDMI port on my TV and wanna hook up sky and ps3

cyberhog

nice1franko wrote: »

It's the industry's worst kept secret that there is no difference between cheap and expensive cables

That's not entirely accurate. There are a few differences outlined at the links below.

http://techtips.salon.com/quality-differences-hdmi-cable-21798.html

http://superuser.com/questions/75046/does-hdmi-cable-quality-actually-affect-transmission/75071#75071

dodzy

JustAddWater wrote: »

Slightly OT lads but the site is under construction.. Does anyone know if these lads stock HDMI splitters? I have only 1 HDMI port on my TV and wanna hook up sky and ps3

http://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/q_hdmi+splitter/

gomara

If you must have gold plated HDMI cables, here's a real bargain, reduced from £13 each to £1.10!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p23_d1_g23_i2?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1FBQHWYM5F44HZDRAVDV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

imokyrok

I live near enough to balbriggan. Is a HDMI cable the one for connecting a laptop to a TV by any chance? I could do with one of those and they cost a fortune in PC World.

yoyo

imokyrok wrote: »

I live near enough to balbriggan. Is a HDMI cable the one for connecting a laptop to a TV by any chance? I could do with one of those and they cost a fortune in PC World.

If your laptop and tv have a HDMI port then yes this will work great . HDMI will carry the sound from your laptop also,

Nick

imokyrok

Actually now that I check, my netbook only has vga - so back to the drawing board. Ideally I'd like to be able to connect it both to my HDMI TV and to an old scart TV (for the many times I can't get next or near the 'good' tv with three teenagers in the house). I'm trying to get art instructional videos I've purchased online onto a screen large enough to watch comfortably while painting along. It's all very complicated!

gomara

Well most HDMI TVs would also have a PC/VGA input, so a standard (cheap) VGA cable should work there. As for connecting to an old SCART TV thats probably a no-no. Note if using the VGA input, no sound is carried, so you'll have to have separate speakers.

kessler182

gomara wrote: »

If you must have gold plated HDMI cables, here's a real bargain, reduced from £13 each to £1.10!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p23_d1_g23_i2?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1FBQHWYM5F44HZDRAVDV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

Thanks for the heads up, was putting an order in anyway so I picked up two of these while i was at it

mossym

PseudoFamous wrote: »

why does that cable have the ability to tell you that the source is 4K, when a HDMI cable can't even transfer that?

who or what says hdmi cables can't transfer 4k*2k?

Standard Toaster

Was in there today and none left.

cathy01

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Was in there today and none left.

If I see them again I'll let you know.

JustAddWater

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Was in there today and none left.

The €2 shops stock these aswell if you're near any of those

30% more expensive though!! :eek::D

banchang

gomara wrote: »

If you must have gold plated HDMI cables, here's a real bargain, reduced from £13 each to £1.10!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p23_d1_g23_i2?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1FBQHWYM5F44HZDRAVDV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

Don't ship to Ireland

califano

banchang wrote: »

Don't ship to Ireland

Yes they do and free too!;)

JustAddWater

gomara wrote: »

If you must have gold plated HDMI cables, here's a real bargain, reduced from £13 each to £1.10!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017RW94A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p23_d1_g23_i2?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1FBQHWYM5F44HZDRAVDV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

The ones in the €2 are gold plated. For digital cables anyway, it makes NO difference whatsoever, it's just something carried over from the scart cable days

RUCKING FETARD

RUCKING FETARD wrote: »

Lidl had great 1.5m HDMI Cables a few months back for €6 that had a 90 degree twistie connector on the end, so if you have a tv that you needed to pust it up into or just into, it'd do both, takes some of lean pressure off the connection on the TV.

And their back, 2 metres actually.

http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_ri_ie/hs.xsl/index_23047.htm

Jesus Wept

PseudoFamous wrote: »

I've never even heard of a shop called "€1.50", so the OP sounded like a massively disjointed sentence to me

There a shop named something like that in the Ilac.

DeadParrot

**double post**

DeadParrot

JustAddWater wrote: »

The ones in the €2 are gold plated. For digital cables anyway, it makes NO difference whatsoever, it's just something carried over from the scart cable days

LOL looked at getting these...
£9 delivery.

DarkKnight444

Those probably have a lot of air miles attached to them for 1.50. Does it say where its made?

kirving

DarkKnight444 wrote: »

Those probably have a lot of air miles attached to them for 1.50. Does it say where its made?

Does it matter?

Build quality isn't too important when it's sitting behind your TV for 99% of it's life.

Standard Toaster

Picked up two HDMI cables over in Castle Mill pound shop for anyone else out the Balbriggan direction.

giant_midget

DarkKnight444 wrote: »

Those probably have a lot of air miles attached to them for 1.50. Does it say where its made?

if it's that cheap it's straight from China. I got a 5m gold plated HDMI from tvtrade.ie it's perfect laptop on coffee table hooked up to tv nice an comfy:)

DarkKnight444

Tis cheap allright, but at what cost!

Oracle

DarkKnight444 wrote: »

Those probably have a lot of air miles attached to them for 1.50. Does it say where its made?

Only €1.50 and you get free Air Miles? Great bargain so!