On March 4, 2018 at 14:57, Andrew 2 said...
This past Friday I had a bad one connect (or maybe the cable) right out of the box.... But now we have learned that we need to keep a spare on the van just in case. So yeah, screw those stupid things.
I wonder if there's some reason to expect that a separate little box like that is any more likely to be defective than the entire TV is. In other words, there's no proof that it makes any sense to carry an extra one with you. Either you'll never recoup your investment in the box or we'll ALL start having this problem!
However, the cable is its own problem. It's unique, so you can't just go buy, say, a VGA or DVI cable and use that instead. Also the cable adds four places of possible failure: the connector in the TV, the connector in the box, and each connector in the cable. Plus, that cable is probably the wrong length more than 90% of the time, in particular it's too short for many setups.
