Is it possible that there are different types of cables that offers HD transfer to the TV? I've never really heard "HD" cable either, but in the article I read it as HDMI, had to go back to check if it actually said HD.
You can do 1080i over YCbCr analog, but no one has done this for like a decade, and it only made sense for pre-HDMI HD sets (which made as little sense to manufacture as pre-Rec2020 4k TVs being made now).
If you are a Prime user then logout of Amazon and go look for that same item again. If the item is sold/shipped by Amazon then you might not find a big difference, but if the item is sold/shipped by a different company then you will see that the price is lower, but you have to pay shipping.
Resellers in the Amazon site have to up their prices to account for the free shipping, but I find that the upped price is still a bit cheaper than paying for the shipping separate.
AmazonBasics is currently the best cheap cable (replacing Monoprice's now that they aren't nearly as good as they used to be).
Also, why does the article call them HD cables. Whats an HD cable? None of my ports say HD, they say HDMI.
And it doesn't even get into how Prime games S&H over the long term.