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I just have to say though retail stores are nice and usual way to shop around, they usually carry a good size overhead and thus a good sized markup over invoice. Just because a online retailer/seller has something cheaper than a brick-n-mortar store doesn't mean it's black market or unauthorized (it can be but doesn't have to be). Cheap optical cables are better than cheap coax cables for digital audio, digital has a degree of error correction and with the bundles of cables behind a typical home theater setup optical is immune to picking up noice from adjacent wires. Coax cables need good shielding to prevent this so you want to spend more of your coax cable than your optical if you were to buy both. Lastly about the HDMI, it is a godly connection being all in one and also having both audio and video sent digitally across the cable. Since HDMI is all digital you don't have to worry much about signal interference between the video and audio, just avoid poor made or shielded cable and all will be good. Brandon you sound like you work retail, they've trained you well if you do. Personally I hate retail sales associates as they call them. They always try to get people to by the most expensive thing their wallet can charge even if it's not what the customer needed. Circuit city just did the like with my cousin, but in circuit city's defense he probably let them. Left with almost $8,000 in a new tv and home theater system plus accessories up the ying yang. It was good stuff 60" LCD-RP, bose lifestyle 38 but still a little overkill especially with the bose and the accessories for it-he's never gonna use the 200hours of cd storage capability on the bose. But yea I personally dislike those retail sales people who are really trained on making sales rather than giving me exactly what I came for.
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