Originally Posted by
MorradinCC
You will have to forgive me as my brain is still in the best buy "sales-shark predatory" mode when I talk about home theater stuff. After telling customers this stuff for years its hard to leave it all behind when talking to people not so easily fooled. Anyway you are correct in that short distances you can get by with a cheaper cable, however I did notice artifacts and compression on some newer 3D movies with the rocketfish HDMI cables. For straight 1080p content, a 6$ cable is fine. If you already have a 1000$+ 3D tv, a little more on a cable isn't going to make or break you, and I honestly think you are getting a better quality cable. I guess the 6$ cable and the 180$ cable is like comparing a ford festiva and a Lambo, they will both get you there, but if you had the money to spend on gas/insurance/payments, you would buy the Lambo.
TLDR: "HDMI is HDMI" is not true, there are differences and it bugs me when people say its so.