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-( i )- Wicker wrote: »

Don't forget one of these to go with that new monitor

Many people think that a cable is a cable. But what they don't understand is how much research goes into creating a cable that costs roughly the price of most people's home entertainment systems.

You see, it all goes back to Young's experiment, or the double-slit experiment, where physicists determined that matter and energy could be either waves and/or particles. This discovery is at the heart of quantum mechanics, and has revolutionized the study of physics.

So, what's unique about this particular cable is that it ensures perfect wave-particle duality, and that 12 meters happens to be the ideal length to maximize phlogiston flow through copper. With this, each bit that is transmitted from one end of the cable to the other has an equal chance of being a wave or a particle at the other end, as the bits are phlogisticated when they enter the cable and dephlogisticated when they leave it.

This may sound common, as though any old cable - even that $5 AmazonBasics cable - should be able to accomplish it, but only appropriately designed cables offer this characteristic. In addition, this cable is custom-tuned to the appropriate deferent and epicycle frequencies of the HD TV ration, 1920 x 1080. (As such, you definitely do not want to use this when watching anything in 720p; plain old DVDs just look terrible.)

In any case, if you understand the above, you'll know why you need this cable. If not, go for the $5 AmazonBasics cable.