5 Types of HDMI Cables

Are you planning to buy an HDMI Cable? Now, there are different types of HDMI cables available in the market, each HDMI cable designed to meet a particular performance standard. So, before you buy a HDMI cable, it is important that you get to know about the various types. The guide below should make it easy for you to make your purchase decision. The following is a description of the most commonly used HDMI cable types.

Types of HDMI Cables

Standard HDMI Cable

The standard HDMI cable is designed to handle most home applications. These cables can handle the most basic tasks over lengths of 6 feet or less. A Standard HDMI cable carries high-definition (HD) video and audio from a source device to the monitor, TV screen, projector, digital broadcast HD and DVD players.

Standard HDMI Cable with Ethernet

Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet cable type offers the same video performance as the standard HDMI cable; this cable adds the HDMI Ethernet Channel, a dedicated data channel that lets you pass network information between the devices. HEC functionality is only available if both the source and sink devices are equipped with HEC functionality.

High Speed HDMI Cable

The High Speed HDMI cable is designed and developed to support advanced video resolutions, 3D movies or similar advanced features. This cable will support deep color functionality and advanced technologies such as 4K, 3D, Deep Color etc.

High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet

This cable same performance as the High Speed HDMI Cable, video resolution and beyond, but with the addition of the dedicated HDMI Ethernet data channel. This cable supports the most recent technologies and video resolutions being rolled out in today’s networked HD devices. Rather, HDMI Ethernet Channel functionality only works if both connected devices are HDMI Ethernet Channel-enabled.

Standard Automotive HDMI Cable

This HDMI cable is designed for internal cabling of automotive vehicles. These wires do not additional feature Ethernet functionality, but do handle automotive connection System and audio and video transmission.
 

Know More about Connecting Electronic or Computer Cable

Computer cables can be data cables used to move data between various components such as CPU, Monitor, keyboard, scanner, printer and other multimedia devises. These universal cables enable high-speed data transfers within the input and output components of the computer.

Here are a few of the different types of universal cables:

HDMI Cable

HDMI stands for High-Definition Media Interface. This cable designed to transmit high-definition audio & video signals. HDMI Cable is supported by newly audio or video equipment, computer monitor, video projector, video game, digital television and consoles.

VGA Cable

VGA stands for Video Graphics Array and comes in two types, male or female connector. VGA cable is a type of computer cable that carries visual display data from the CPU to the monitor. This cable is used with video cards, computer monitors, laptop computers, projectors, and high definition television sets.

  

3 Pin Power Cable

3 Pin power cable is designed so that electricity can be supplied to electrical appliances safely. Each wire has its own specified color and each pin must be correctly connected to the three wires in the electrical cable.

 

Speaker Cable

Speaker cable is the wire used for the electrical connections between loudspeakers and amplifier. Modern speaker cable consists of two or more electrical conductors individually insulated by plastic or rubber. The two cables are electrically identical, but are marked to identify the correct audio signal polarity. Generally speaker cable comes in the form of zip cord.