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Best Buy had to buy that ranking ,, those people take their customers for morons ,, try to sell you a HDMI cable for $80 or more when you can get them for $2 each at meritline or monoprice ,, same for the wall mounts ,, $200 plus vs. about $25 delivered.. That and Best Buy still plays the game where they have the manufacturer make one insignificant change to the unit (lets say bezel color) just so they can have a new model number just for themselves ... the only reason for which is to deny your claim when you try to get a price match.

OH , for anyone that thinks there's a difference between a $2 and an $80 HDMI cable ,,, THERE IS ,,, IT's THE PRICE , THE THICKNESS OF THE PLASTIC INSULATION (insignificant) AND THE FANCY PACKAGING AND MARKETING ,, it's a digital signal and the cables are made to the specs required for certification ... it's a 1 or a 0 coming down the pipe.. not an analog signal where slightly better wire can make a difference.

http://www.amazon.com/Hdmi-Feet-Super-Resolution-Cable/dp/B0002L5R78

Yeah, the cables thing is pretty ridiculous. But, to be honest, that’s pushed hard by management for the high margin. The moment I heard about Monoprice, I was done buying cables at the store!

I wanted to buy a 1080p 67” Samsung, a PS3 with a game and a remote, and a few Blu-Ray movies. This was a huge purchase, and would have gone a long way towards meeting their daily goals. The only Samsung they had left was the floor model and no one else in town had one. I told him I would just take the floor model with the requisite discount. He hemmed and hawed for a good 20 minutes before finally getting his dumb @$$ over there with a lift to pull it down and get it ready for shipping.

In hindsight, I should have just bought it somewhere else, or at least demanded a manager or another salesman. From my time working at BB I know there are some great folks and some real tools. Naturally I found one of the latter...