Don't buy expensive HDMI cables

HD Guru has another informative piece up that brings up a classic issue in purchasing HD-related equipment: HDMI cables. Retailers and manufacturers will have you believe you need to spend at least €50 if you want all the unicorns and rainbows to pass through from your Blu Ray or whatever-have-you player unharmed. 

Not true. 

Ignore colourful labels mentioning speeds, refresh rates (ridiculous!), 3D-capable, 4K-capable (kidding, right?), colour gradations and so on and so forth. Literally all of it, all of it, is unrelated to the capabilities of an HDMI-cable. As the article mentions, there are two, and only two, official standards of HDMI-cables which are related to speed, and any "High Speed" cable will do just fine in displaying whatever HD unicorns you can throw at it, regardless of whether the ends are dipped in "gold", Swarovski diamonds or whale tears. Additionally, HDMI-cables are all digital, so it's either 1 or 0, picture or no picture, at the same quality. 

So ignore the labels and logo's, and buy the cheapest HDMI cable you can find. 

Good example. Bad example. Would you like a major internal organ to go with that?