HDMI Cable, Displayport Cable, Scart Lead, Component Video Cable to connect your TV
A new HDMI revision sparks the usual farce with unscrupulous retailers claiming to be selling HDMI 2.0 Cables even they don’t exist and never will!
HDMI 2.0 introduces new features into equipment but cables remain exactly the same, the latest specification increased bandwidths up to 18Gbps using existing high speed and high speed with Ethernet cables, a good article on click > HDMI 2.0 Cables for full details.
LG has switched their power connector to a cloverleaf C5 on recent TVs but are only supplying a 1m cable in the box, luckily a longer length cloverleaf power cable can be bought up to 10m long.
When choosing an HDMI cable for 3D you only need a high speed hdmi cable or a high speed with ethernet HDMI cable. There is no change in the wiring of the cable for 3D over HDMI so most older cables that were marked as HDMI 1.3 cables will work fine.
CAT6A patch cables are now available to support 10 gigabit ethernet, available in multiple colours and lengths.
HDMI cables now come with a rotating and swivelling connector to get the perfect cable position in those awkward spaces and with a 2m rotating HDMI cable only costing £6.75 its a no brainer. The cables are also rated high speed with ethernet so will support all HDMI 1.4 functions.
Connecting HDMI to a VGA monitor is now quite simple with the use of an HDMI to VGA converter, the device takes an HDMI input and provides a VGA and stereo audio output, a great solutuion for watching Sky HD on your VGA monitor.
Despite being in wide spread use the term HDMI 1.4 Cable is now defunct, instead cables are now referred to as standard speed, high speed or high speed with ethernet. If you want to make sure you have all the HDMI 1.4 functionality then you should now buy a high speed hdmi cable with ethernet.
New Lindy HDMI Splitter (part codes 38026 and 38027) now support 3D over HDMI as well as 1080p.
Higher speed: HDMI 1.3 increases its single-link bandwidth to 340 MHz (10.2 Gbps) to support the demands of future HD display devices, such as higher resolutions, Deep Colour and high frame rates. In addition, built into the HDMI 1.3 specification is the technical foundations that will let future versions of HDMI reach significantly higher speeds
Deep Colour: HDMI 1.3 supports 10-bit, 12-bit and 16-bit (RGB or YCbCr) colour depths, up from the 8-bit depths in previous versions of the HDMI specification, for stunning rendering of over one billion colours in unprecedented detail
Broader colour space: HDMI 1.3 adds support for “x.v.Color™”, which removes current colour space limitations and enables the display of any colour viewable by the human eye
New mini connector: With small portable devices such as HD camcorders and still cameras demanding seamless connectivity to HDTVs, HDMI 1.3 offers a new, smaller form factor connector option
Lip Sync: Because consumer electronics devices are using increasingly complex digital signal processing to enhance the clarity and detail of the content, synchronization of video and audio in user devices has become a greater challenge and could potentially require complex end-user adjustments. HDMI 1.3 incorporates automatic audio synching capabilities which allow devices to perform this synchronization automatically with total accuracy
New HD lossless audio formats: In addition to HDMI‘s current ability to support high-bandwidth uncompressed digital audio and all currently-available compressed formats (such as Dolby® Digital and DTS®), HDMI 1.3 adds additional support for new lossless compressed digital audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™
The splitter coupled with a high speed hdmi cable gives perfect 3D to more than 1 screen.
High speed hdmi and high speed with ethernet cables are now available in lengths up to 20m, these long hdmi cables can support 1080p resolutions and are compatible with 3D TV. If you need to go longer though we would recommend using HDMI over cat5 extender.
The Vision FC4 v2 is a small electronic converter that converts HDMI to component video. This unit is particularly useful for people with older HD displays that only have component video inputs. The FC4 outputs the same resolution as the input resolution from 480i to 1080p.
