Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI

First time accepted submitter Forthan Red writes "It may be a pricing bot run amok, or a ridiculously over-inflated sense of worth, but Best Buy has been offering an HDMI cable for a whopping $1,095.99 (currently sold out!). While Best Buy seems to be oblivious to the absurdity of this price for a digital cable, those posting customer reviews are not. Enjoy the mockery!" One of my favorites is: "saved a ton of money on a new TV on black Friday and decided to use the extra cash to get the best cable available. At a whopping 3.3 feet in length, this cable is no joke. When all my friends come over to watch football, they always say 'WOW what kind of HDMI cable do you have?' I proudly tell them about my audioquest diamond and its advanced features such as its Dark Gray/Black finish. It is a great conversation piece! Not to mention it fits into my dvd player and tv perfectly."

Comments

Hah! Get a REAL cable!

[plate_o_shrimp]

Best Buy are punters. Here's a REAL cable:
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Re:They may be mocking the price but

[DMUTPeregrine]

There is no such thing as a 100% digital signal. There are no 0s and 1s. There are rising and falling edges of a square wave (or high and low voltages). Impedance mismatches caused by varying twist rates can degrade signal. That, and there's always attenuation of a square wave, to transmit a perfect square wave would take infinite bandwidth. That said, for a 3 foot cable you can have quite a lot of variance and still get a recognizable signal. I could understand $1000 for some sort of active-powered 100 meter cable with built-in repeaters, but not for a 3-foot one.