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    Don’t buy the wrong HDMI cable

    Oct 06, 2021 4 minutes

    HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is now the standard means of transmitting audio and video signals from a source device to a screen. These sources include computers, games consoles, DVD/Blu-ray players, TV set-top boxes and streaming sticks, while screens span TVs, PC monitors and projectors. HDMI offers superior sound and picture quality to previous connection methods such as SCART and VGA, and its cables are thinner and lighter.

    Since HDMI ports started appearing on consumer products in 2004, there have been several standards of the technology – the latest is HDMI 2.1 – with each upgrade increasing the bandwidth capacity to allow for higher resolutions and faster data-transfer speeds. These standards work best with different types of HDMI cable, so in this

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