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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 6055068" data-attributes="member: 52734">For the first time in over ten years, I had Black Friday off.  Been wanting a big-screen TV forever, and I ended up talking myself into going to the local Best Buy at about 12:30 AM.Line was reasonably short - I was in by about 12:45 AM.  I ended up picking up two 26" LED tv's for the price of one to replace our 17" computer monitors, and HDMI cables - at $19 per cable, not bad.  Also walked out with a $40 blu-ray player and a sack of DVDs that'd been marked down to $9 a season.  All stuff I'd been planning to get a some point and really felt like I got a reasonable deal on it (some of it's going under the Christmas tree).Next day, I managed to talk the wife into replacing our monstrous 32" dying CRT TV with a big-screen.  I wanted a 55", she wanted something about the size of the TVs I brought home last night.  We settled on a 46" that was very decently priced.  I was going to grab one of the cheapo cables and on a whim, got talking to one of the staff about why some of the cables were so damn expensive.  After the talk, I did end up buying one of the more expensive Monster cables (a $70 hit to the wallet), with the understanding I could bring it back if I felt like it wasn't worth it.So, got home after setting the whole shebang up with the cheap cable first attached to the new blu-ray player, I popped in Star Wars (New Hope) DVD [not even a Blu-ray version] and played the last bit - y'know, the attack on the Death Star.The colors looked a bit wrong and I could see some garbage pixelation on the screen.  Thought at first it was because they weren't the Blu-ray versions.Then I changed the cables out - and wow, it made a noticeable difference (to me).  Enough I won't be taking it back and exchanging it.  Now, I won't say it's worth it overall - you've got to be on a really big screen (remember, mine's 46") and fairly close to notice the difference (our couch is positioned about 3' away from the screen), but if you're a detail nut it's worth investigating.  For most folks - or for just regular HD TV, I'd go with the cheapo HDMI.Now, if I can just get Netflix to work properly on the smart TV, I'll be doing good...</blockquote>

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