According to PC magazine testing, for the vast majority of HDTV owners, a $5 HDMI cable will provide the same performance as a $100 one.

They tested several different HDMI cables and found absolutely no effective difference between a no-name $3 HDMI cable you can order from Amazon.com and a $120 Monster cable you buy at a brick-and-mortar electronics store.

They put the cables through three different tests: a technical quality evaluation, a blind video test, and a 3D-support test. All HDMI cables passed all three tests with flying colors.

They concluded that as long as HDMI cable is 1.4 compliant (10.2 Gbps bandwidth) and it is less than 6 feet, they didn't see any performance differences between HDMI cables.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385272,00.asp