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Component connection
« on: March 12, 2004, 08:04:02 AM »
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Just curious if anyone knows this. I just bought a new TV, and I want to hook it to my DVD using 480p component. Component hook ups look like standard RCA jacks, but I've seen cables specially made for component input. Can I use RCA cables (I have a spare 3 wire A/V cable) or do I have to blow 30$ on component cables.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2004, 09:31:20 AM »
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It's all about signal quality . . . cough . . . cough . . . making money. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the only thing you will get with a special component cable is extra shielding and better copper. Try your spare AV cable, if everything looks good your all set.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2004, 09:58:18 AM »
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Signal quality eh? I'm sure that must be a real big deal on a 2 FOOT cord. Lucky for me the AV cable is already RG-6, so if I am loosing signal, I'll eat my hat.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2004, 01:27:16 PM »
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Well, welcome to the world of the 'great cable debate'....
I am the proud owner of:
Harman/Kardon AVR2500
Harman/Kardon HD750
Harman/Kardon DVD30
Mission speakers all round
In this setup, the difference in sound quality when you pay •5 for a cable, and whe you pay •220 for a cable is absolutely huge. With sound, the soundstage actually widens when you play your music using the expensive cable. The sound becomes far more 'alive', and as if you were hearing it live.
When it comes to Picture quality, and cabling, the same is true but in a different way. With video signals, the colour and luminace 'melt' together differently with different quality connects, to put it another way, with expensive cables, the picture can come more realistic, both tonally and with luminence.
However, and this is the real crux of the problem..... you have to have a display capable of showing the difference. There is no point in getting expensive sound cabling if your speakers are cheap rubbish, and its pointless getting expensive video cabling if you only run your picture to a 32" widescreen tele. Pointless.
The differences you will see with cables running into •200+ for 1 metre of cable are only actually apparent when you run a •6,000 projector throwing a 12 foot screen on the wall, and have a speaker system with very nice amp powering them.
In other words, excellent cables only do any good if you have excellent equipment to run them on.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2004, 02:00:11 PM »
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Well, seeing as how A. I'm a cheap bastard and B. I only have a 200$ DVD player and a 900$ 32" HDTV, I might as well go with my existing cables for now.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2004, 02:36:33 PM »
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So Alk whats you're saying is its like doing this to a Honda Civic.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2004, 03:39:24 PM »
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HEHEHE... my point exactly skip 
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2004, 06:27:33 AM »
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Thanks for the advice, but it won't matter anyway, at least not for a while. I went and picked up my new TV last night, only to get it home and find out IT DOESN'T F**KING WORK!!!! Now I have to go back to the store and have them deliver ANOTHER one, which will take ANOTHER week.
What is it about being a consumer that means you have to take it up the ass all the time, huh?
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2004, 01:42:10 PM »
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Ask RG: they seem to have shoving updates and "customer service" up people's rears down to a science. 
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2004, 07:21:59 PM »
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Thanks for the advice, but it won't matter anyway, at least not for a while. I went and picked up my new TV last night, only to get it home and find out IT DOESN'T F**KING WORK!!!! Now I have to go back to the store and have them deliver ANOTHER one, which will take ANOTHER week.
What is it about being a consumer that means you have to take it up the ass all the time, huh?
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the problem is people see that no matter how much customer service they get, they still get the same amount of $$ so why the hell should they care if they are nice to the person on the other end. Not to mention because of this 'standard' service crap, too many customer service people are scared to ever violate a policy for fear of being fired...
in case anyone really wanted to know, that's what i've learned in my five years as customer service goon at your local albertsons.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2004, 07:55:23 AM »
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I work for a smaller company (around 50 - 60 Million in revenue) and we have a customer service department of only 4 people (of which I am the manager) and I can tell you that service and customer retention are of utmost importance because we simply can't afford to loose existing customers the way the bigger guys can. Sears (which is where I bought my TV) doesn't care if I never shop from them again because in the end the couple hundred dollars that I spend there means nothing.
Service is also something that has become too corporate. Companies institute polocies and procedures that are supposed to 'enhance customer service' when in the end all you need to do is trust your service people to help customers on their own. Service means to serve, to help. It is one person helping another. A company does not provide you with service, individual people do.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2004, 11:36:56 AM »
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I was a mere customer service rep at one store, in the largest grocery chain in north america, albertsons. When a retard bagger messed up someone's dinner, albertsons doesn't care. They pull in thousands upon thousands a day per store. Hell back in the early days when our store had good numbers before meijer's opened, we'd do a million dollars in sales a day. That's pretty impressive for one store. Too bad our customer service pretty much sucked.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2004, 03:12:15 PM »
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We have 2 main gorcery chains out here Tops and Wegmans. Wegmans is all about service and their stores are huge with all kinds of variety and gourmet stuff. Tops has horrible service and little variety. I go to Tops because; even with idiots running the registers (why do they put the slowest person on the express register?) and clumsy oafs doing the baggin, I can be in and out in half the time. You see, Wegmans with their great service is always crowded and Tops never is.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2004, 08:23:14 PM »
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skip is that your car?
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2004, 09:41:14 AM »
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umm no Biggums it's not, this is what I drive a 92 Ford Taurus SHO with less than 50k milles on it.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2004, 07:45:14 PM »
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just be careful skip, shortly after you ground the speedometer at 85mph, you can blow the transmission at like 110 or 115 (clocked on another car).
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2004, 09:25:47 PM »
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My parents have a SHO. A '90 I think. Nice car! Too bad those Taurus's are prone to rust. Yours should be good for a good while though. I drive my Pa's 2004 PT Cruiser.
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Re:Component connection
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2004, 07:53:10 AM »
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yeah I'm aware of the rust issue and am adressing it with the assistance of some friends that own a body shop. (3m rust inhibitor)
As for the transmission, Tenshi I think you may be talking about a regular Taurus not an SHO, my speedo goes to 150 I think and my personal top speed was 130 not too long after I bought it. I know the car is good for like 143 or something. The 92 was supposed to be as fast as a 5.0 liter Mustang of the same year.
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