HDMI

Thin is in this season -- flat-screen televisions are shaping up to be among the hottest holiday gifts. Prices are at unheard-of lows, and supply is still ahead of demand, but there's another reason for their current popularity.

Cables, connectors, adapters; you can't have a gadget these days without needing some kind of extra cord to connect device A to device B. And most of the time retail stores and name brands charge an arm and a leg for the simple pleasure of connectivity. When the AmazonBasics cables begin...

For the last 30 years Monster Cable has been selling expensive and, according to the company, higher quality cables. It's nothing to drop upwards of $100 on a Monster branded HDMI cable for a new TV or similarly exorbitant prices for any cable bearing the Monster Cable brand. But Monster isn't...