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I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

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[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The specification includes the cable's capabilities, though. And sure, build quality can affect longevity, but if it doesn't meet the minimum capability at time of manufacture, it's not in spec.

But yeah, especially back in the early 2000s/2010s when we were making the jump from analog to digital cables, a lot of companies were trying to convince consumers that digital cables had to be made of premium materials like analog cables did, despite the fact that part of the point of digital cables is that the signal is binary both in composition and in nature: it's made of 1s and 0s, but it also either works or it doesn't.

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