no thanks, I wanted to be assured of getting the best possible playback result, so this time I didn't mess around, I went straight to Mediabridge for the HDMI Cabling, Wow

The best result, which was spectacular, happened to be through a Mediabridge cable, and since this was the easiest and most cost effective first course of action to correcting the various playback issues, I ordered Mediabridge HDMI cabling for the other components as well

I then replaced the Brand-X cabling with the new Mediabridge cables, and was rewarded with a very much improved result from those components