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Originally Posted by marki
Chris if you want to connect to a TV to get a better picture for gamming you need the TV/AV cable, around $60 from the apple shop.
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/iPhone-3G...ht_7638wt_1180
$10 on eBay Mark - including delivery.
I have a couple of these and they work as advertised. You can pay for name-brand if you wish, but you certainly aren't forced to. These are obviously made in a small Chinese factory and without any real warranty, whereas a proper Apple-branded cable will have a warranty and, being made by Foxconn, will be of higher quality to begin with. There is a vast difference between Apple-branded cables and cheap Chinese knockoffs, I assure you.
A $60 cable for a multi-thousand telescope mount is considered inconsequential.
A $60 cable for a $169 device is a greater part of the cost of the original device.
I'm not being funny here, but a cable is still just that - a cable. Cost of construction, distribution, retail profits, etc, etc, etc affect the two cables in the same way. Why should the cable for the $169 device be any cheaper - just because the device it's connected to is cheaper? Strange logic... especially given that the iPod TV cable with a 30-pin connector, three RCA plugs and USB is
infinitely more complex than any cable you're likely to want plug into a Celestron telescope.