Earlier I was looking for a DVI cable but after doing a little research I concluded to have HDMI. If you are planning to use your computer or laptop to use in a home theater environment with a high definition TV set can greatly benefit from the single cable that can carry both the audio and the video. When I went on to purchase it online as well as offline I got many problems but eventually I had the standard 2 meter cable of very good quality for a very low price.
Of course, even though a computer may have an HDMI video connector, it may lack the internal connector inside to graph the PC audio into the HDMI video signal. If the TV uses the older DVI connector, a PC with the HDMI connector will still function with it through the HDMI to DVI adapters.
With increase of high definition video content with the adoption of HDTV, the need for a standard unified connector was needed. The DVI interface was originally developed for computer systems and was placed on early HDTV units, but there are a number of limitations with it that manufacturers looked to put together a newer connector.
From this, the High Definition Multi-media Interconnect or HDMI standards were developed. The best part is that here you have smaller standardized connectors with audio and video on a single cable and increased color depth with high definition copy protection signal (HDCP) with an ability for it to be used with DVI connectors if you have that port.
A monitor with a DVI connector can connect to a HDMI graphics port on the computer, a HDMI monitor cannot connect to a DVI graphics port on the computer.
This post is a part of the My Tools & Gadgets Blog Series.
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