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The are a couple of very helpful articles on the Blue Jeans cables sitee about what is wrong with HDMI.

"HDMI is a horrid format; it was badly thought out and badly designed, and the failures of its design are so apparent that they could have been addressed and resolved with very little fuss. Why they weren't, exactly, is really anyone's guess, but the key has to be that the standard was not intended to provide a benefit to the consumer, but to such content providers as movie studios and the like. It would have been in the consumer's best interests to develop a standard that was robust and reliable over distance, that could be switched, amplified, and distributed economically, and that connects securely to devices; but the consumer's interests were, sadly, not really a priority for the developers of the HDMI standard."

HDMI Cable: An Overview: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/hdmi-cables.htm

What's the Matter with HDMI?: http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/whats-the-matter-with...

I don't have any HDMI based devices fortunately, but on the basis of these two articles a Blue Jeans cable might be a good option to go for as opposed to the cheapest possible.