[filmscanners] RE: Interferences

["Thomas Maugham" <tmaugham@yahoo.com>]

I submit that there are actually very few cable manufacturers in the world
and those few do all the manufacturing for the many vendors that sell them.
Case in point, I bought a six foot USB cable in a dollar store for
(surprise) one dollar.  A friend bought a six foot USB cable in Radio Shack
for 8 or 9 dollars.  When the two were compared they were identical right
down to the mold marks on the connectors.  And yes, both were made in China.
The cable bought in Radio Shack did not carry the Radio Shack name.

In my professional life (I was a computer person for 40 years) we always
bought the cheapest cables, tapes, diskettes, CDs, etc. and rarely had
problems.  Like many other products, the addition of a brand name, be it
Apple, IBM, Gateway, Dell, Hewlett Packard, etc. makes for a higher price
tag but not necessarily higher quality.

Regards to all,
Tom Maugham

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Vrieslander
Sent: October 20, 2004 4:36 PM
To: TMaugham@yahoo.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Interferences


On 10/20/04 12:50 PM, "Kris" <graphikris@cox.net> wrote:

> Julian, while I don't disagree with the need to buy good shielded 
> cables, I would suggest that there are many suppliers that are more 
> cost effective than the cable that Apple sells.
>
> There's always the possibility that the specific cable you had was 
> faulty. The connector manufacturing, as well as the cable itself could 
> have been marginal, causing the problem.
>
> What I'm saying is that buying a cable for 10x the price isn't always 
> the necessary solution.

I don't dispute any of your comments.  I bought a cable from Apple because I
happened to be in an Apple store when I remembered that I needed a new
cable, and I have had few problems with Apple-branded products.

--
Julian Vrieslander <julianv@mindspring.com>


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