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Waterfall said:
Great!!! Thankyou soooo much! I honestly think someone could start a business giving technically brain dead people useful insights!
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Wasn't that kind of the point of Nerd OnSite at the beginning? Before scamming technically brain dead people became the name of the game?

(Marketplace has a good piece on them. Look it up)
 
Waterfall said:
Is it comparable quality? Where is the dollar store one produced? They must have paid their workers 10 cents an hour?
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The Pontifex is right. The cables that the big boxes sell, esp. Monster brand cables, are badly overpriced. If you don't want to do dollar store, try The Source or, if you can find one, a local non-chain electronics or computer store. They generally have more reasonably priced cables. As for where they are made, pretty much all of them, regardless of price, come out of China or Korea.
 
Mendalla said:
Wasn't that kind of the point of Nerd OnSite at the beginning? Before scamming technically brain dead people became the name of the game?

(Marketplace has a good piece on them. Look it up)
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Oh really? I suppose if one doesn't keep self informed it's a chance to take advantage. I really have no interest in knowing that much about anything overly techy, I just want to use it. In this case, I trust yours and Chemgal and Pontifex's advice.
 
And any place that says the picture from their HDMI cable is better than the picture from another HDMI cable is lying to you.

An HDMI cable is a digital cable. Either the zeros and ones are flowing, or they are not, and you have no picture.

Every year or so, I place an order with monoprice.com for misc. parts like this. They are super cheap, but the shipping means you have to order a bunch. I have cables I don't need just because I may need one, or someone I know needs an HDMI cable or network cable, and I just hand them one. They all seem to find homes.

As for who makes it, they're all made by Chinese workers being paid next to nothing. It's just the markup on cables in Future Shop is 1,000% or something astronomical.
 
chansen said:
And any place that says the picture from their HDMI cable is better than the picture from another HDMI cable is lying to you.

An HDMI cable is a digital cable. Either the zeros and ones are flowing, or they are not, and you have no picture.

Every year or so, I place an order with monoprice.com for misc. parts like this. They are super cheap, but the shipping means you have to order a bunch.

As for who makes it, they're all made by Chinese workers being paid next to nothing. It's just the markup on cables in Future Shop is 1,000% or something astronomical.
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I was thinking exactly that when I heard they were all made in China and Korea.
 
Canada doesn't make squat anymore. All electronics are made overseas.

As for the TV box, I was considering a Roku 3, but the MyGica boxes look interesting. They run XBMC, which is a personal media streaming service. I really should learn more about it. Rogers is just so damn expensive, but the only option for some things.
 
chansen said:
Canada doesn't make squat anymore. All electronics are made overseas.

As for the TV box, I was considering a Roku 3, but the MyGica boxes look interesting. They run XBMC, which is a personal media streaming service. I really should learn more about it. Rogers is just so damn expensive, but the only option for some things.
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What do you like about the MyGica? When you look into it more, let me know okay?
 
chansen said:
An HDMI cable is a digital cable. Either the zeros and ones are flowing, or they are not, and you have no picture.

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Even with old school analog cables, the difference between a $10 cable and a $40 cable is often not noticeable unless you're very, very sensitive.
 
Waterfall said:
What do you like about the MyGica? When you look into it more, let me know okay?
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I'll try to research it tonight, to be honest. The Black Friday deals on electronics might make me jump at something like this and finally cut the cord.

Also, I'm glad my researching and analytical nature is something you're interested in now ;)
 
Waterfall said:
Can I get the History channel, PBS, on netflix?

Edit: I guess I can just look that up. :oops:
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Netflix doesn't have 'channels'. You search for the show you want to watch. There are also categories that you can look through. You rate things you have watched, and some of the stuff it will recommend is pretty good too.

http://netflixcanadavsusa.blogspot.com/ (I think it was chansen who showed me this) will show what you can get in Canada, as well as what you can get from the US netflix if you pay to mask your location.
 
And they do have some History and PBS content. I've been watching Ken Burns' Jazz on Netflix (they have most of his documentaries) and they have the last season or so of Nova.
 
chansen said:
Canada doesn't make squat anymore. All electronics are made overseas.

As for the TV box, I was considering a Roku 3, but the MyGica boxes look interesting. They run XBMC, which is a personal media streaming service. I really should learn more about it. Rogers is just so damn expensive, but the only option for some things.
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I'd be interested in it too. I know that there are extras with the various services but have never bothered to look, especially since when I was first hearing about them it was all American info. If someone else wants to do the work :D - even if you just direct me to a decent link!

My new laptop comes with a bunch of apps on it, I haven't even bothered to figure out most of them. I tested the netflix one, I could see if I was using it by remote or maybe even touchscreen how it could be better. With my mouse, I prefer to just use my internet browser.
 
I have a Boxee, but that hasn't had support in over a year. We use if for Netflix and playing local content, but it's tempermental.

I also have a Chromecast, and I don't use it. Smart, eh?

Tonight I'll start a cordcutters thread. I need to stop paying Rogers so much.
 
Just quickly, MyGica is an Android box, and because it's Android (which is a free operating system) there are tons of these Android boxes around. I don't think they are highly thought of by your typical cordcutting type. Seems they can be wonky to use.

The Roku seems to be the safest bet these days for a streaming device that people can use easily. But it will NOT be like your cable TV environment.

What I want to do, is set up an antenna in my attic, run that antenna cable to a PC in the basement to turn those local channels into streaming channels on my network, and run boxes on my two TVs (eventually 3 or maybe 4 TVs if the basement red room and guest bedroom get one each) to get these local channels, Netflix, and things like MLB streams and the like. I think we could live with that.

I like the look of the new Google Nexus player, but it's WiFi only. Why no ethernet port? Argh.
 
I'm thinking Rogers gets to charge what it does because most people like me are out of the loop! You know more than most and it's fustratrating even you.

Being without TV so far was the easiest, haha.
 
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