The angry thread

[Claude Dreyfus]

Purchased an new DVD/BlueRay player last weekend. Tried to install it today, but wait...I have the TV, I have the DVD player and I have a power lead for said DVD player, but do I have an means to connect TV to DVD player?

No

I didn't realise that the means to connect one to the other is an optional accessory (and one which has an rrp of £25.00 - nearly 50% of what I paid for the player itself!).

My wife, who is an accountant, did tell me the technical term for producing the item itself for very little, and then charge a fortune for additions and consumables (see printers and the price of an ink cartridge!).

I have a word for this as well...in fact a number of words!

  and even 

[daveg]

I have a word for this as well...in fact a number of words!

  and even 

and there's also  and quite probably  as a follow-up!

Dave G

[railsquid]

Purchased an new DVD/BlueRay player last weekend. Tried to install it today, but wait...I have the TV, I have the DVD player and I have a power lead for said DVD player, but do I have an means to connect TV to DVD player?

No

I didn't realise that the means to connect one to the other is an optional accessory (and one which has an rrp of £25.00 - nearly 50% of what I paid for the player itself!).

Is the missing link an HDMI cable by any chance? If so I trust you didn't actually pay that £25.00?

[Lawrence]

Not a lot you can say about that weekend, Lawrence
Probably best not to ask how you got the back spasms on a dirty weekend away, though
Gissa call when you're down from the ceiling, mate

Unfortunately the spasms started on the drive up, so the weekend was always going to be missing a little something, didn't think it would turn out so bad though 
Anyway we are home now, popped into the Strathspey Steam Railway at Boat of Garten on the way down, they need to rename it to Strathspey Railway though, nothing that uses coal in sight, did take some piccies which I will post, eventually.

[Claude Dreyfus]

Purchased an new DVD/BlueRay player last weekend. Tried to install it today, but wait...I have the TV, I have the DVD player and I have a power lead for said DVD player, but do I have any means to connect TV to DVD player?

No

I didn't realise that the means to connect one to the other is an optional accessory (and one which has an rrp of £25.00 - nearly 50% of what I paid for the player itself!).

Is the missing link an HDMI cable by any chance? If so I trust you didn't actually pay that £25.00?

Yes, the missing link is the HDMI cable, and worry not, I have not actually bought one yet...but when I do Hades will freeze over before I stump up £25.00 for one of those...

[railsquid]

Purchased an new DVD/BlueRay player last weekend. Tried to install it today, but wait...I have the TV, I have the DVD player and I have a power lead for said DVD player, but do I have any means to connect TV to DVD player?

No

I didn't realise that the means to connect one to the other is an optional accessory (and one which has an rrp of £25.00 - nearly 50% of what I paid for the player itself!).

Is the missing link an HDMI cable by any chance? If so I trust you didn't actually pay that £25.00?

Yes, the missing link is the HDMI cable, and worry not, I have not actually bought one yet...but when I do Hades will freeze over before I stump up £25.00 for one of those...

I have no idea what the market for HDMI cables is like in the UK, but I don't imagine you'd need to pay much more than a fiver (unless you want a super-duper gold-plated one with platinum wire and diamond-encrusted plugs).

Look at it on the positive side - once you have the cable, it will probably outlast the DVD player, though there's always the risk that The Industry will decide to come up with some whole new standard. (Anyone need a SCART cable BTW?)

[Agrippa]

Poundland sell them ( 1 meter) , though I don't know
if they all have a standard fitting.

[Malc]

They should have a standard fitting, but the very cheap ones are sometimes poor quality. However, at a £1, you have very little to lose (well £1, to be exact)

[Claude Dreyfus]

I'll wander down to the local Maplin tomorrow lunchtime...

[Agrippa]

I think Maplins is same as the Poundland one,
but about 7 x  dearer.

[Tdm]

Took a friend to purchase a new LG TV & DVD Player/Recorder the other day (he said he was not technically minded and wanted someone to advise him on his purchases and set it up).

Forgot to ask the shopkeeper if it came with an HDMI cable - and when we got it home discovered - No it didn't.

However a guy in the local snooker hall I know who does TV & Internet installations said he had a van full of HDMI cables and gave us one for free.

I'm surprised the latest DVD recorders don't come with an HDMI cable as they no longer come with a Scart outlet connection - only HDMI, svideo, and phono outlets.

[Skyline2uk]

As it happens I found myself in the opposite situation when I bought my Sony HD recorder.

Seems Sony supply HDMI cables with such things, so I returned the cable I had in the basket to its location in the shop (btw I hate it when I see stuff just shoved around the store in random places).

The only HDMI cable I have bought was a "fancy" one I got in a shop closing down clearance for £7.00 (RRP £30.00).

Most of the reading I have done on the subject suggests that, unless it really is bargain basement, most people struggle to tell the difference between "high end" and "normal" HDMI cables.

Just my experience 

Skyline2uk 

[Trainfish]

Most of the reading I have done on the subject suggests that, unless it really is bargain basement, most people struggle to tell the difference between "high end" and "normal" HDMI cables.

Skyline2uk 

Knowing someone who knows his stuff about these and SCART cables etc he 100% agrees with you.

When I bought my last TV I told the salesman I wouldn't buy his £699 item unless he gave me an HDMI cable for nothing. He got the sale. Also threw (not literally) in some screen cleaning stuff.

[JBQFC]

oh well feeling good only lasted two weeks
now back to having stomach pains and feeling tired all the time
back to the doctors next week i guess 

off to see my consultant tomorrow and guess what no symptoms for three days 

now no stomach pain for 10 day good
but i now have a chest infection 

Not to wish ill health on you, but good luck

[Newportnobby]

Bummer
I've had what I believe to be a chest infection for 3 months now and am due to see a cardiologist next Monday