KOGAN OFFERS FREE HDMI CABLE TO CUT THE UK CABLE CON

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It's time to cut the cable con in the UK!

When you buy a TV from John Lewis, Currys, or countless other high street stores, you will be offered hideously expensive accessories such as HDMI cables. These cables are sold with absolutely ridiculous markups, many multiples of the actual cost of the items.

These stores are trying to trick people into thinking they need an HDMI lead costing over £100 after buying a Full HD TV. This is simply not the case. You shouldn't be spending more than £4 on an HDMI cable!

An HDMI cable is an HDMI cable. It's a digital cable. You either get a picture or you don't. Don't get conned into buying a "fancy" HDMI cable because it will make no difference! This has even been verified by an independent media outlet: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385272,00.asp.

Here's an example of the Cable Con happening right now at a Currys store in London:

UK Cable Con

Click on the image to see the scam close-up!

The cable con is even happening in many online stores:

Currys £100.99 2 metre Monster Cable
Currys £99.99 2 metre Belkin Cable
John Lewis £99.99 2 metre Peerless Cable

In a bid to end this suspect practice, and bring cable prices down to their proper levels, Kogan is now offering FREE HDMI CABLES to anyone who buys a TV at either John Lewis or Currys from July 1 2011.

Kogan will even pay for the shipping direct to your door!

When you buy a Full HD TV, you need an HDMI cable to take full advantage of the great resolution on offer. What the high street retailers aren't telling you is that HDMI is a digital cable. It deals with ones and zeroes -- not like the analogue cables of yesteryear. This means there is no difference to the picture quality you will receive whether you use Kogan's £4 cable, or the ones that Currys, John Lewis, or countless other high street stores will happily sell you for an exorbitant £60, £80, £100 or more.

At Kogan, we think it’s extremely unfair for someone who shells out their hard-earned money on a new TV to be shafted on cables and accessories because of a deliberate misinformation campaign by the big retailers.

The Kogan HDMI cable we're giving away is HDMI version 1.4, meaning it is future-proof for transmitting 3D TV, can carry an Ethernet signal, and is gold-plated.

If you purchase a TV from Curry’s or John Lewis, don’t be tricked into buying an expensive HDMI cable - claim your FREE Kogan cable and help expose the UK Cable Con, by simply emailing proof of your purchase to cablecon@kogan.co.uk.

Full Terms & Conditions for this giveaway are available here.

Have you been stung by the cable con?

Cheers,

The Kogan Team

Join the discussion...

Ben Wright says...

£1000 on a TV and then the shops will lie to them and make them think they need a £100 HDMI cable. You are spot on with what you say, HDMI is a digital cable and there's no diff b/w a £4 cable and a £100 cable

Sue says...

Are you guys sure about what you are saying? I thought the more expensive cables had more insulation and things like that for a better picture display

Zuki says...

@Sue

YES. Trust me that there is absolutely no difference!

You can't have a 'better picture display' on HDMI. It isn't sent down the cable as an analogue signal, where small changes will perturb the signal. But even if it were true, think for a second - most of your interference even on an analogue TV is from the aerial itself, not the cable that connects it to the TV!

As for the HDMI, it's digital. Even if somehow you lose a few bits along the cable during transmission, that is nothing.

Test for yourself - if you are about to buy a £100 HDMI cable just breathe a second... at least TRY the £4 cable first! See what you think yourself first. Heck, buy the Amazon Basics cable for £1 to give it a try!

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater says...

I've been telling anyone who's asked to avoid Monster and related junk and to buy from monoprice.com , but free is an even better price!

Gray says...

This debate has been going for years and I have used a number of different brands and qualities. Persoanlly I found there WAS a difference between my cheap cable and my Belkin premium cable. Colours we more defined and the image was clearer. Others' experience may differ but for now, I'm happy with my purchase.

Z says...

"Persoanlly I found there WAS a difference between my cheap cable and my Belkin premium cable. Colours we more defined and the image was clearer. Others' experience may differ but for now, I'm happy with my purchase."

@Gray:

I don't doubt that's what you thought you observed. But if you're talking about an HDMI cable here... well... the placebo effect is a wondrous thing. Besides, who wants to admit that they were duped into paying more for something that is functionally identical to a product that's a fraction of the cost? I'd bloody well talk about "more defined" colors too if I were in that position!

Actual electrical engineering, on the other hand, disagrees with your conclusion.

alan lovedog says...

how could one digital cable give you better colours? - it's digital - it's a computer program being transmitted - to give colours different in any way it would need to be reprogramming them.
will an expensive gold plated usb cable cause your printer to give better quality prints?
will an expensive usb memory stick make the photos stored on it look better than a cheap one?

Richard says...

FINALLY! I've been trying to tell friends and family (and the occasional random stranger in electrical stores) that there is no difference between hdmi cables! but the sad fact is that no one listens, at least no one ive told, and most feel its safer to buy a more expensive cable "just to be sure"?!? gah! people make me SO ANGRY! still now i'll print this, and your other story, out to prove my point. thank you kindly.

andre nicholls says...

i was tempted to buy one , but i then asked what each would cost on its own they tried saying it was how it was made that put the cost up so i asked how long it takes to make one but they could not ans so i said your riping people of he denid all this but they could not explain how it cost that much so i cancelled the tv and cable and walked out

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Sammy says...

You guys are spot on, well done. The 'cable con' has been a annoyance to me for many years and have told people of this con at every opportunity after currys trying to sell me a usb cable for a printer for £14.99 when I'd seen a perfectly adequate if not identical cable for sale elsewhere for £1.
I had no idea these stores were charging as much as £100 for an hdmi cable when as you say a cable costing a few pounds is as good. You probable get a bigger smile from the sales staff when you hand over £100 of your hard-earned, I wonder what they will be thinking?

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I have to agree that the cost of a HDMI cable does not reflect in the better picture quality, the more expensive HDMI cables are simply using better shielding and better grade metals to conduct the electrical DIGITAL signal, this is for stability of the SIGNAL.

I'm an network engineer and the same principles apply, AWG 24 copper is used for networks the same cable you're using to connect your pc/laptop to your internet modem/router. The better quality metals and shielding the better stability of an internet connection. This does not mean a faster pc, all metals have a conductive length/distortion. The longer the cable the signal becomes weaker due to length of travel. This principle applies to professional installations of video equipment using HDMI. But since the debate is about home use, there is NO real difference from a £4 cable to a £100 cable as long as both meet the standards and requirements of your HDMI devices then dont be fooled into buying.

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