I ended up going with a cheap one from Newegg, advertised as High speed and having gold connectors as recommended.
I know I may have better luck with the more expensive cables, but at the end of the day I'm mostly just doing this to mess around and try to learn a bit about this tech. I'd rather pay less and risk having problems to solve, than pay $40 for an expensive cable to start with. Plus, I'm not sure my cheap TV even supports full 1080p, and my understanding is that 720p and 1080i are less susceptible to signal loss via cable length. Its okay if its not perfect.
Thanks everyone for your help.
And i assumed it worked? Im interested to try this myself too.
It is your choice. I started with 10 and after 200 ectos I only had 40 clovers. Did 1 for the rest and really wished I had just done 1 from the start.
Neither is profitable in the long run.
Yup pretty much the same exprience i had. Did 100 ectos got 10 clovers and wished I had just done 1 from the start. I have since got my other 67 from about 200 more ectos.