Dear Canon,I bought your IXUS 100 IS digital camera. It cost a bit more than I wanted to pay but it is looks very nice, and while I know nothing about cameras the photo quality (including night shots) seems to be very good. It has a nice big HDMI logo on the box, so I thought it would be nice to plug the camera straight into my TV and view them in 1080p glory rather than muck around with the buggy/slow windows 7 + media center + xbox 360. But perhaps I was naive to think that when paying for the non-budget model I would get a free HDMI cable... there is no HDMI cable but that is cool I can pick these up online for a few bucks. Oh wait, no I can't. Turns out it is a mini-HDMI cable (the box doesn't mention this) and even more annoying it is $70 USD but even more annoying is that only Canon mini-HDMI cables seem to work. 70 bucks, that is more than 20% of the cameras retail value and 14x the cost of a cheap HDMI cable and it makes me hate you (Canon) as much as I hate Sony and their products (playstation, minidisc, cameras, cd players, cell phones) which only seem to last me a year or less. I am sure with your marvelling engineering skills you could have made room for a standard HDMI cable or at least included an HDMI dongle. Only suckas would pay $70 for your boring cable. SORT IT OUT.
P.S. next time I buy a camera without researching it will from Fujifilm or something from the Korean peninsular.
Update: You can get a cable which seems to do the job for 5 bucks at monoprice.com.
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