Don't get me started on cables. What a scam! I'm still laughing about "uni-directional speaker cables" and that came out years ago (it was quite funny). Nowadays when I go to the audio-video specialty store and they try to sell me cables along with my new gadget, I always so no. Why? Well because they are trying to sell me a digital cable (like for example, an HDMI cable for my TV) on the basis that it delivers a better picture or sound than a cheap one would. I can understand that it is possible for a cable to be so badly designed that it can introduce errors by allowing interference or distortion, but I really don't believe that the ones and zeros spitting out the end of a $260 "designer" HDMI cable are any different than the ones that spit out the end of my $20 Walmart HDMI cable. Choosing cables should be a matter of engineering principles and common sense, not voodoo psuedoscience.