[davepuma]

Does anyone know when the official PS3 AV component cable is going to be on sale?

None of the shops know, I've asked online retailers and they just say "soon". The only ones on sale are 3rd party cables, which are usually rubbish. Someone bought me a 'gioteck' one but the only information I could find on them was that they were on sale by a number of ebay sellers, which leads me to believe that they're just cheap tat. HMV charged £20 for it and that's more than the official Sony cable. I can't find any official PS2 component cables either which are the same cable. It seems like Sony really has mucked up certain parts of the launch (ie. bundling it with a composite cable and no IR receiver for starters). The pic quality via HDMI is astounding though but I need to use component as my HDMI input is being used. I don't want to purchase a HDMI splitter just yet as I will no doubt upgrade my amp at some point (long way off though!).

Cheers