"The main reason their sales staff try to sell cables with TVs and such these days is actually to avoid the angry idiots coming back and complaining that they couldn't connect the TV up when they got home because they didn't have the right cables."
Here's a crazy idea that would solve that problem, but which will never catch on: A piece of equipment designed to connect to a TV using a HDMI cable could come with a HDMI cable included in the box.
This crazy idea could also be extended to other equipment and types of cable.
I can't claim credit for the idea, though, because it's based on a memory of how things used to be.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
