The flaming will be harsh in this thread... Thanks for the effort OP (although I'm not sure how you managed to spend $20 on an HDMI cable on monoprice, was it 100' long?) but this has been discussed many times, and is not directly video game related.
I hope that people will take it easy on you though, as it was a post like this on another board a couple years ago that made me a constant and steady monoprice customer.