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There is next to no difference between the bargain basements cables and the spiffy ones, except the price you pay. All of them are made to the same specs and cost about $1 to make, even the $80 ones. I used to work in an electronics store and the amount of markup on some of them was extreme. Mainly just make sure it has some decent shielding, i.e. thicker cable, and gold connectors, you should be able to get some for about $10.

There is next to no difference between the bargain basements cables and the spiffy ones, except the price you pay. All of them are made to the same specs and cost about $1 to make, even the $80 ones. I used to work in an electronics store and the amount of markup on some of them was extreme. Mainly just make sure it has some decent shielding, i.e. thicker cable, and gold connectors, you should be able to get some for about $10.

Thanks Wingo,

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Well, all that I know of that you'd transmit over HDMI is video, which is your case, correct?  And for that, I have seen absolutely no difference in quality in bargain (<$5) and pro cables.  I work in video production, and trust me, I notice the slightest noise in the picture.

Usually for video cables you only notice difference in cable quality when going 20' +.  Then the signal starts to degrade.

I actually tested this when I purchased my Pioneer 50" plasma. The store guaranteed that I'd see a difference and allowed me to take a $300 AudioQuest HDMI cable home for a test.

I ran my set-up DVD's and watched about 15 DVD and Blu-Ray movies, HD TV, standard TV, Playstation 3 games and home video from my camcorder. I could see NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL between this cable and a $15 HDMI cable I purchased from Altex Computers (a cheap computer parts store).

All the reference material on the Essentials DVD looked exactly the same. The movies and programming looked the same as well.

I returned the AudioQuest and saved $285.

Remember - HDMI is digital, there is no "image quality" associated with the quality of the cable (true in 99.9% of cases, some of the very expensive cabling will allow transmission over longer distances than shorter ones).

I've seen stores selling more expensive cables as the only 1080p compatibles ones...this is BS. All HDMI cables, whether they are

I second everything that has been posted in this thread. My

While it is true, that we're talking about a digital signal here..  it's pretty much "all or nothing" .. there is no better/worse, as far as signal quality degredation.

However...  I went through two $30 HDMI cables (they just quit working) running from my DirecTV reciever, to a 60" LCD TV...  having to switch temporarlily to the component-level connections (which is a real PITA while the TV world settles on a resolution format)(constantly changing the reciever format, and the TV's format)(it all seemed to work seemlessly when using HDMI)...  Where was I ? ... Oh yeah  :-[   ANYway.. I broke down and paid $90 for a brand-name HDMI cable.. been running flawlessly for a year now  8-)