It’s Good to Know: HDTV Rip-Off Update

Just before the holidays, I wrote about avoiding paying $50 to $100 for "monster" cables when buying High-Definition TV gear. I said you could pay $25 and get the same quality.

Well, leave it to Amazon.com to "lower" the bar. They’re now offering a six-foot HDMI cable for the grand total of… $2.04. (You can get essentially the same cable from "monster" suppliers for just… 86 bucks!)

As of this writing, 417 customer reviews gave the Amazon product an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars.

[Ed Note: Charlie Byrne is Creative Director at Early to Rise. Sign up for e-mail delivery of his blog and get edgy and useful ideas on copywriting, marketing, and other category-defying posts.]