DO NOT buy the gold-plated cable myth. The $20 HDMI cables work just as well as the gold plated Monster cables. It’s a digital signal. Any cable that delivers the data is exactly as good as any other. The picture is identical.
Remember. Your HDMI cable is going to be about 4 feet long. Even cheap, crappy cables work for that distance.
Actually, I got the HDMI cable from the cable company. I dont know if that was “normal” or not. I am sure they didnt pay a lot for them. It helps to ask though. What can they say?