Anyone use the hdmi from sams club? pure a/v

Nothing wrong with them. If you need some HDMI cables right away, then it's a good option, otherwise if you can wait a little bit, some $5 HDMI cables from MONOPRICE.COM work great also. Since HDMI is digital, the likelihood you could see any difference at all is slim to none from a $5 cable to a $500 cable.

Belkin makes very good cables, but you can get some very nice cables from monoprice or Amazon for under $10.

Nothing wrong with Belkin cables and if you need them right away and can get them at the store for $25, go right on ahead. If your not in a rush for whatever reason, you know you'll need 1 or 3 of them maybe a few other cables while your at it, monoprice.com really can't be beat. You can even find deals on Amazon, and sometimes if your a PRIME member like myself, you can get them cheap and 2nd day air for free or $3.99 overnight.

I agree prime membership certainly does pay off. they have some great prices on hdmi and free 2 day is great.

Any HDMI 1.3 cable (is there a real difference from the earlier versions?) will do. Monoprice.com is the way to go. Less than $5 per cable.

Ya, pretty much any HDMI 1.3, or 1.3a, 1.3b, etc cable will work great. If it looks well made and it has a Lifetime Warenty like ALL the cables at monoprice.com does, then it should be fine.

In HDMI, if the signal voltage is high, it encodes a one; if low, a zero. The voltage encoded as a one can drop a fair amount and still be distinguishable from voltage encoded as a zero. After a certain point, however, the signal voltage drops so low that ones and zeros look alike, and the TV's receiver chip attempts to guess their value. So rather than gradually diminishing in accuracy, the way an analog signal does, a digital signal may remain perfect up to a critical level and then fail catastrophically.

HDMI Licensing, which oversees the HDMI spec and ensures that companies comply with it, requires that no more than one pixel per billion be lost in transmission. Even if you lost 1 out of a thousand, you wouldn't notice it!!! That's direct from Leslie Chard, HDMI Licensing president.

What it comes down to is you either have a great Picture, or you have CRAP. If you have CRAP get a differnt HDMI cable. Pretty simple.