Obvious: Retailers make little on TVs, lots on overpriced cables, warranties, etc.

[The Straight Story]

Retailers make little on TVs, lots on overpriced cables, warranties, etc.

Extended Warranties
The perennial favorite. If you don't use them, they're 100 percent profit for the store. Think of them like any other insurance. For flat panel TVs, they're not generally worth it. Both plasma and LCD TVs are extremely reliable.

Cables
Sad to say, you're not going to get the cables you need in the TV box. You will need HDMI cables (or component, but HDMI is that little bit better, and a lot easier).

What you don't need is to spend a lot of money. There are only two states possible with an HDMI cable: it works, or it doesn't. If you see a picture, and it looks good, then you are getting the best picture possible. If you don't see a picture, or it's messed up with speckles, then the cable is defective and you should return it.

But $100 HDMI cables do not offer any additional performance over a $5 HDMI cable.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41610801/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

[Kolesar]

1. A 20 foot HDMI cable for $22, including shipping

wow. They must pay their assemblers $400/year

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10240

[Warren Stupidity]

2. yeah just ignore the painful pleadings of the closely monitored clerk

don't buy the monster cables don't buy the warranty don't buy the installation service. If they offer free delivery, that you should take them up on :-)

[guruoo]

3. 'White man build big fire, sit far away...

red man build little fire, sit real close'