Jason Unger
03-09-07, 11:57 AM
The Secrets of HDMI
by Raj Nair
What the consumer doesn't know just might hurt him.
Have you come across DVD players at $29, or even as low as $19, and wondered why cables to connect them to HDTVs are 10 times as expensive? Finding a digital versatile disc player with its sophisticated optoelectronics and mechanical systems for $19 seems like magic.
It's not magic though.
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It's volume production, the beauty of commerce, benefiting the consumer. What doesn't make sense to me is the cost of the cable to connect such a useful device to a television. It is akin to having to pay 10 times what you pay for a soft drink for the straw you use to sip it.
For more on Raj Nair's Secrets of HDMI, check out
http://www.cepro.com/magazine/article/17843.html
by Raj Nair
What the consumer doesn't know just might hurt him.
Have you come across DVD players at $29, or even as low as $19, and wondered why cables to connect them to HDTVs are 10 times as expensive? Finding a digital versatile disc player with its sophisticated optoelectronics and mechanical systems for $19 seems like magic.
It's not magic though.
http://www.cepro.com/asset/7360.jpg (http://www.cepro.com/magazine/article/17843.html)
It's volume production, the beauty of commerce, benefiting the consumer. What doesn't make sense to me is the cost of the cable to connect such a useful device to a television. It is akin to having to pay 10 times what you pay for a soft drink for the straw you use to sip it.
For more on Raj Nair's Secrets of HDMI, check out
http://www.cepro.com/magazine/article/17843.html