On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 04:34:51PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Steve Langasek dijo [Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:55:36PM +0200]: > > (...) > > How did you arrive at this $200 figure for HDMI to VGA converters? The > > *worst* price I've found for HDMI-VGA cables on Amazon is $20 apiece; > > assuming one per talk room, that's < $70 including shipping, which is > > nowhere near $200. > Again, I do have four such adaptors - Two of them should work readily > (VGA to HDMI dongles), and two should work with a MiniHDMI to HDMI > adaptor. If they are useful, I can take them with me. I won't be > during the plenary session days, but can lend them for all of the rest > of the conference time. Thanks for the offer, but I assume we're going to need these for the plenary days as well. I think we should just pick these up online to make sure we have them. I would still like clarification from the video team about what it was they were looking at that cost so much, though, to understand if there are requirements here I haven't sussed out (e.g., cable lengths). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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