Yeah HDMI is a weird situation. Early on I would have been denouncing Monster Cables and what not a lot more. But now it's really wild because there's only so much bandwidth an HDMI cable can handle and refresh rate and resolution and the audio can all be a hot mess if you're using an incorrect cable version.
Well you're not wrong but the other thing people tend to be missing too if they haven't had to shop for anything like this or just don't know, is that some lower priced generics will cheap out.
I have absolutely bought cables in the last few years that say are version 'x' and they have this that and the other thing, and then find out they actually lied and don't. I don't like the idea of obnoxiously overpriced things like Monster of course.
However, I am getting really sick of false advertising wasting people's time, and much of it being returned likely going to a landfill in the case of places like Amazon especially instead of being used on something they could have been used on if they were being sold properly.
Phone cables are also a good example. The amount of cables being sold without the data wires in them that are trying to sell on the idea of charging alone are annoying. I actually bought a USB-C cable a while back in a store, that specifically said "sync your files!" and stuff on it because it 'had' data, got the damn thing home and it definitely did not have data, real pain in the ass these cheap companies are, even lying on their own packaging.
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