{"id":515,"date":"2009-03-24T08:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T12:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=515"},"modified":"2009-03-24T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T12:24:38","slug":"monster-hdmi-difference-scam-still-kickin-in-frys-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/monster-hdmi-difference-scam-still-kickin-in-frys-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster &#8220;HDMI Difference&#8221; scam still kickin&#8217; in Fry&#8217;s Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we don&#8217;t have a Fry&#8217;s electronics here, so I am not able to verify this&#8230;  But Engadget is certainly a trust worthy source for this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you have a Fry&#8217;s store near you, revolt!<\/p>\n<p>Evidently some of the Fry&#8217;s store&#8217;s may still be running the Monster&#8217;s HDMI Cable scam.  Now, I am a video person, and I can assure you a Composite\/RCA video connector does not have the bandwidth to duplicate a HDMI display.<\/p>\n<p>RCA connections typically can output roughly 300 lines (Actually 320) of resolution, compared to HDMI which can do at least 1920&#215;1200.  Not even close to being comparable&#8230;  So why is this Monster display in (at least one Fry&#8217;s) trying to compare a RCA video in, to a Monster Cable HDMI in, and claiming that the difference is actually a Monster HDMI vs a competitor&#8217;s HDMI cable?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nEngadget has the photos to prove the point.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/03\/23\/monster-hdmi-difference-scam-still-kickin-in-frys-electronic\/#comments\">Monster &#8220;HDMI Difference&#8221; scam still kickin&#8217; in Fry&#8217;s Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we don&#8217;t have a Fry&#8217;s electronics here, so I am not able to verify this&#8230; But Engadget is certainly a trust worthy source for this&#8230; If you have a Fry&#8217;s store near you, revolt! Evidently some of the Fry&#8217;s store&#8217;s may still be running the Monster&#8217;s HDMI Cable scam. Now, I am a video <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/monster-hdmi-difference-scam-still-kickin-in-frys-electronics\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[192,274,203,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->