ive noticed the difference though...best way to go about it is, check the return policy of the shop you're gonna buy the cables from. Place i bought it from had 7 days no questions asked policy so i bought your standard component cables to run the video, a cheap HDMI and that expensive one and tried it on my projector running blue ray films....and yeah there was a difference. Blue ray films run on 1080p resolution same as HD DVDs however if you're gonna run your standard dvds (or even use an upscaling dvd player) your normal component/cheap HDMI should be fine...basically anything less than 1080p.

The best way is to try all the setups and if YOU can't tell the difference then buy the cheaper one.

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