Re: Home Entertainment Show 99 (Preston)

[Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Brendan,

Even better than that....on the way home yesterday I had chance to read all
the leaflets I picked up at the show. One company has a mains cable which
is
IDENTICLE to the Arctic Grade mains lead in the Maplin catalogue. 69p per
metre or 40UKP per 100m reel. The only noticable difference was the company
name printed on the sheath. Price for the higrade stuff....40 QUID PER
METRE
!!!!

Among the claimed benefits was one that particularly appealed to me....
Computers...your computer will process data more quickly !!!

Forget that Athlon 700....
change the mains lead and your 286 is good for another millenium :-))

Ever the sceptic

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan [mailto:jbh@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 November 1999 09:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Home Entertainment Show 99 (Preston)


Hi Keith,

Haven't been to the Show but agree with your sentiments re use of
widescreen
and partic, re leads.
I simply can not understand how these manufacturers get away with the
pricing and the bull re leads.
Even more disgraceful are the so-called reviewers who describe cables in
the
same terms as they would an amp or a speaker ...... (equally bull++++
terms).  I have enev seen people say that a phono lead 'sounded better when
the connections were reversed' ......................

Ah well ...

Brendan


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>
To: 'UKHA Discussion' <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date: 30 October 1999 17:52
Subject: [ukha_d] Home Entertainment Show 99 (Preston)


>Hi All,
>
>Paid a visit to the Home Entertainment Show 99 at the Posthouse Hotel
>Preston. The show is also on tomorrow Sun 31st Oct from 10am -4:30pm.
>
>I was impressed with the Inwall speakers from KEF and the Loudpanel
(Flat
>panel loudspeakers) from Wharfdale.
>
>Plenty of DVD and Home Cinema kit around but most projectors on show
were
>LCD. Seleco have a stand showing the new SVT400 CRT projector with
built in
>line doubler also capable of PC data projection at VGA. The Yamaha
stand
>have a SELECO SVT800 on loan as their picture source and it can handle
PC
>data at 1280x1024 (but it does cost 11 grand)
>
>Plenty of Plasma screens dotted around. Mostly 42" with 852x480 PC
>capability but there is also the new Pioneer 50" plasma that can
display PC
>at 1280x768 widescreen.
>
>One annoying thing was the Widescreen format. Most people were using
the
>Bugs Life DVD and even on the widescreen plasma screens the picture
only
>filled 60% of the height of the screen. In my own personal opinion, to
buy
>a ?10,000 plasma screen and then effectively was ?4000 of it by not
>displaying anything is complete madness. For the time being I will
stick to
>my 28" 4:3 TV as to get the same picture height from a widescreen
set would
>cost me around 2 grand for a 36" WS.
>
>I also failed to be convinced that the phono leads one company were
selling
>were in the salesmans words "outstanding value for money".
The fact that a
>pair of 1 metre phono to phono leads were sold in a wooden presentation
box
>immeadiately said "EXPENSIVE". When he told me they were
?995-00 I couldnt
>beleive that anyone would ever buy them. What really took the biscuit
was
>when he pointed to a rack of leads at a specially reduced price as they
>were "slight seconds".  If his company's products are so good
that they
>deserve such high price tags, how can they sell anything that is less
then
>perfect :-))
>
>Thats my views for what they're worth.
>If anyone else is in the area its worth taking a look.
>
>Keith
>
>Keith Doxey
>http://www.btinternet.com/~krazy.keith
>Krazy Keith's World of DIY Home Automation
>
>
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