Price Setting vs Price Fixing

[pidgeon92]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Some people would probably think that owning three devices on which to read books is equally ridiculous .

There are people that only have three?

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by HarryT

You've never encountered an audiophile if you think £230 is a high price.

Mwhahaha... if you see how much audiophiles can spend on the cables alone... then £230 buys you one jack plug.

(I've actually seen 'audiophile HDMI cables' costing €199 for a 3m cable... AFAIK, a cable working with digital signals can never have quality loss: it works, or it doesn't.)

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

Mwhahaha... if you see how much audiophiles can spend on the cables alone... then £230 buys you one jack plug.

(I've actually seen 'audiophile HDMI cables' costing €199 for a 3m cable... AFAIK, a cable working with digital signals can never have quality loss: it works, or it doesn't.)

Let's not go off on that same tangent again, please.

[soulfuldog]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Some people would probably think that owning three devices on which to read books is equally ridiculous . Bose are not in the mass consumer market; they have a very specific target audience who are willing to pay the premium prices they sell their products for. You've never encountered an audiophile if you think £230 is a high price.

I only own 2, the K3 belongs to someone else in the house! And yes, I am speaking as clearly an non-audiophile but more importantly, someone who appreciates the value of money. I don't mind paying for quality, just within reason. For example, I love reading, but would never have been an early adopter of ereaders paying £300+ for one like some people.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by ApK

Let's not go off on that same tangent again, please.

I won't. I never heard any difference between any HDMI cables. And my network doesn't become faster when using shorter cables either (as some people will claim...)

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

I won't. I never heard any difference between any HDMI cables. And my network doesn't become faster when using shorter cables either (as some people will claim...)

The speed of light (and electrons) physics still apply.
Short is faster...

But the test equipment to measure the difference costs $100k

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by theducks

The speed of light (and electrons) physics still apply.
Short is faster...

But the test equipment to measure the difference costs $100k

"Fast" in a network generally refers to the amount of data you can pump through it each second, and the length of the cable doesn't affect that; it only affects how quickly the data reaches the other end.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by HarryT

"Fast" in a network generally refers to the amount of data you can pump through it each second, and the length of the cable doesn't affect that; it only affects how quickly the data reaches the other end.

<sigh> digital data is transmitted as pure real analog electrical signals. Long wire runs can increase electrical resistance and signal loss, resulting data errors that may result in missing information, degrading quality or need be addressed by retransmission, resulting in slower realized speeds. Just because digital signals don't have the same cable issues as analog doesnt mean they dont have issues. They do.

[HarryT]

Wire? How quaint . I was of course referring to fibre optics, which don't suffer from that problem.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Wire? How quaint . I was of course referring to fibre optics, which don't suffer from that problem.

Fiber optics similarly require repeaters to compensate for attenuation and distortion over long runs.

[HarryT]

"Long runs" in this case refers to many km. Using a 3m rather than a 1m cable, which is what was being discussed here, isn't going to make the slightest difference.

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by pidgeon92

There are people that only have three?

That's what I love about MobRead ......... you learn more extraordinary facts .......

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Wire? How quaint . I was of course referring to fibre optics, which don't suffer from that problem.

And just following on ........ what's wire ?

[ApK]

Originally Posted by HarryT

"Long runs" in this case refers to many km. Using a 3m rather than a 1m cable, which is what was being discussed here, isn't going to make the slightest difference.

Well, we weren't REALLY talking about fiber optics, now, were we...? We weren't really talking about cables at all, come to think of it.
As a matter of fact it's really just an...um..matter of fact.