Local place for cheap hdmi cables? [Archive]

Great68

01-08-2009, 08:42 AM

JDM_CTR

01-08-2009, 08:53 AM

SOURCE /RADIO SHACK
ALL hdmi cables are DIGITAL so they all work the same, JSUT the connections look more bling with $$$ ones

mr_baboon

01-08-2009, 09:14 AM

Hey guys,

Does anyone know where I can get cheap HDMI cables in town?

I just bought myself a 52" Aquos and Blueray player from Future Shop but I just can't bring myself to waste $70 on their cables.

I need HDMI to HDMI for the blueray player, and a DVI to HDMI cable for my Mediacenter PC.

Go to Madman Mackay's home theatre on the Island highway (Just past six mile). They will sell you a generic, non fancy, whatever length you want HDMI cable for ultra cheap. The do sell the expensive ones, but for home installations they use the cheaper cables to run through walls and whatnot where nobody will see them.

As for pricing, we got a 25ft HDMI cable for something like $160.

Enraged

01-08-2009, 09:33 AM

not local, but much cheaper than anything I could find local. ordered and recieved within a week. http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp

rental_metard

01-08-2009, 09:56 AM

i got my dvi - hdmi cord from a computer store for $40 i think, phone around to them don't bother going to future shop for that kinda stuff.

projectcivic

01-08-2009, 10:19 AM

Excess Cargo had them for like $30 for 4 feet I think it was. Walmart also has them. I bought a kit for $35 that came with 12ft of HDMI cable, some screen cleaner & cloth, and a power bar.

Victoria SiR

01-08-2009, 10:37 AM

Costco has a kick ass Home Entertainment pack for like 80 bucks. Has two 6 ft HDMI cables, component cables, and even optical cables for audio. I think it had some standard ones in there as well.

Type R

01-08-2009, 10:40 AM

FS sells no name brand HDMI for 45.99 up. Picked mine up there.

projectcivic

01-08-2009, 10:56 AM

Costco has a kick ass Home Entertainment pack for like 80 bucks. Has two 6 ft HDMI cables, component cables, and even optical cables for audio. I think it had some standard ones in there as well.

nice, I may go and check that out. i need another HDMI cable and opitcal cable.

Manic!

01-08-2009, 12:19 PM

Superstore

ostampflee

01-08-2009, 12:27 PM

not local, but much cheaper than anything I could find local. ordered and recieved within a week. http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp

Thanks! Ordering 2 35' cables right now :)

$109USD shipped.

Enraged

01-08-2009, 12:41 PM

ya, its a good store. got 2 3' HDMI cables for under $15 to my door when they had a sale.

Great68

01-08-2009, 03:57 PM

OffroadZuki

01-08-2009, 04:01 PM

Costco has a kick ass Home Entertainment pack for like 80 bucks. Has two 6 ft HDMI cables, component cables, and even optical cables for audio. I think it had some standard ones in there as well.

true story.

my g/f got a 13-foot HDMI cable from Costco for around 40 bones...name brand (Panasonic, I think), shielded and gold-plated connectors...what more could you want? :)

Hondatech

01-08-2009, 04:01 PM

Excess Cargo had them for like $30 for 4 feet I think it was. Walmart also has them. I bought a kit for $35 that came with 12ft of HDMI cable, some screen cleaner & cloth, and a power bar.

I got a couple of six footers from XS Cargo for $16 each. Hard to beat if you want local pickup

Great68

01-08-2009, 04:08 PM

I got a couple of six footers from XS Cargo for $16 each. Hard to beat if you want local pickup

I went to XS Cargo today but they were already sold out of HDMI cables :(

slammedcivicsi

01-08-2009, 04:55 PM

I got my 6' one from Queale, it was about $12, on my account cost around 2 years ago.

OffroadZuki

01-08-2009, 07:06 PM

Thanks guys.

I ended up getting the cables from Queale, the cables were $23 each in 10 foot lengths. They even had braided sheathes to boot!

I had no idea how much Future Shop was ripping people off on cables before, a 4' Rocketfish HDMI-DVI was $71

anyone who works/has worked at FS or a similar store will tell you that that's where they make their money...apparently on something like a Blu Ray player they only make a few percent profit...on Monster cables, Rocketfish, etc...it's somewhere in the 90%+ range...pretty disgusting :p

tamazoid

01-08-2009, 07:46 PM

Not local... But I usually buy stuff from NCIX in Richmond (www.ncix.com) and use www.shopbot.ca to pricematch. Usually get stuff in the next day... But I got a couple generic 6FT for $10 each, and 15FT for like $15 before.

Also Rogers Video has 6FT ones for $9.99. Not sure if they still do...

Vette Dood

01-08-2009, 07:58 PM

www.infinitecables.com

Super Dipper

01-08-2009, 08:25 PM

last 2 cables i bought were under 10 bux from FS.

Great68

01-08-2009, 08:31 PM

I buy from ncix all the time, but sometimes I can get impatient.

http://www3.telus.net/bryster/IMG_4997.JPG

Woot!

Benny95TA

01-08-2009, 09:34 PM

SOURCE /RADIO SHACK
ALL hdmi cables are DIGITAL so they all work the same, JSUT the connections look more bling with $$$ ones

T'is true. I love how people get sucked into advertising. Its digital... it either works or it doesn't.
Analog is a different story... you can hear/see the signal loss or interference.

The high markup on accessories doesn't just happen at FS... it happens at most (if not all) retail stores. No one complains too much if something that cost $1 wholesale is marked up to say $5... its only 5 bucks, right? However, mark up something that cost $1000 wholesale to $5000 retail and customers would lose it.

aspect

01-09-2009, 07:39 AM

paradon computers on bay street has a giant pile of hdmi and hdmi-to-dvi cables for cheap...I think most of them were $20 when I was there last.

OffroadZuki

01-09-2009, 10:05 AM

T'is true. I love how people get sucked into advertising. Its digital... it either works or it doesn't.
Analog is a different story... you can hear/see the signal loss or interference.

The high markup on accessories doesn't just happen at FS... it happens at most (if not all) retail stores. No one complains too much if something that cost $1 wholesale is marked up to say $5... its only 5 bucks, right? However, mark up something that cost $1000 wholesale to $5000 retail and customers would lose it.

I know that's why I sad "FS and similar stores" ;) I've just talked to mostly ppl who worked at FS/Source about this shizz...

Jas: what kind of cables? obviously not HDMI :p When we went looking at FS/Best Buy, the cheapest we coudl find was like 60 bones

Super Dipper

01-09-2009, 02:42 PM

I know that's why I sad "FS and similar stores" ;) I've just talked to mostly ppl who worked at FS/Source about this shizz...

Jas: what kind of cables? obviously not HDMI :p When we went looking at FS/Best Buy, the cheapest we coudl find was like 60 bones

indeed tamas, they were hdmi.

OffroadZuki

01-09-2009, 04:54 PM

indeed tamas, they were hdmi.

wow that's impressive! Boxing week sale?

tamazoid

01-09-2009, 06:04 PM

wow that's impressive! Boxing week sale?

Maybe he talked to Mohammad. Sometimes he can give you some crazy deals... Sometimes it seems like he's giving you a crazy deal. But either way, it's always less than the listed price... That's all I care.

OffroadZuki

01-09-2009, 06:10 PM

Maybe he talked to Mohammad. Sometimes he can give you some crazy deals... Sometimes it seems like he's giving you a crazy deal. But either way, it's always less than the listed price... That's all I care.

ahhh...yeah, we didn't know anyone here :( Thanks for the tip, though I'll remember that for the next time I'm in Vic ;)

Great68

01-09-2009, 06:39 PM

ostampflee

01-09-2009, 08:56 PM

What TV is that? Our Christmas present to ourselves was a 42" Aquos and Harmony 670 remote... which somehow managed to filter out the artifacts from running a 30' s-video cable over a couple 120volt lines in the attic. A huge improvement over the old 26" no name LCD.

That damn Santa still hasn't bought us the Shaw HD PVR yet though and they were stupid cheap on Boxing week.

Darb 2k

01-09-2009, 09:02 PM

+1 for Mohammad!

Bought my TV from him last year. Like others have said, Monoprice is great.

For myself, I purchased a couple 3 ft HDMI's and some other things. Also a DVI -> HDMI 25 ft.

Super Dipper

01-09-2009, 09:17 PM

wow that's impressive! Boxing week sale?

nope, wasnt a boxing week sale and definately didnt talk to mohammad.

Great68

01-09-2009, 09:22 PM

What TV is that?

Same as yours but 52".

This TV is amazing, I am impressed. My fiancee hasn't liked me too much, I've spent the last 3 days playing with it, changing all the settings etc. :D

OffroadZuki

01-09-2009, 11:20 PM

nope, wasnt a boxing week sale and definately didnt talk to mohammad.

ooooooookay then...how?

AJL

01-13-2009, 07:57 PM

I would have told them to toss the cable in for free. Last time i bought the shaw HDPVR the guy i dealt with tossed in the 10' or 12' HDMI cable for $10 after taking 100 or 150 off the price of the PVR unit. This was at either future shop or best buy... i can't remember