Okay. IGNORE everything that you've read in this thread thus far. Here's the real deal.
HDMI is a digital signal. Digital signals do not suffer from signal degradation except in extreme cases. It will either come through crystal clear, or suffer from blatantly obvious artifacts and other flaws.
Therefore, unlike analogue cables (component, composite, S-video, SCART), you can get away with buying the cheapest cables you can find, and as long as they're properly insulated, they'll do you fine.
In other words, go out and buy the cheapest cable you can find for HDMI. Pay any more and you're letting the manufacturers rip you off.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
