HDMI cable types
Premium High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet Premium High Speed HDMI cable High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet High Speed HDMI cable Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet Standard HDMI cable
Premium High Speed HDMI Cable and Premium High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet transmit data at a maximum bandwidth of 18 Gbit/s, incorporating a newer HDMI 2.0 standard. Premium High Speed HDMI cables offer HDR and a much high frame rate of 60 Hz for 4K resolution. As is the case with the rest, High Speed HDMI cables come in two variants, inclusive of, and without Ethernet. Notwithstanding their theoretical advantages, Ethernet-via-HDMI devices are few and far between right now. If the price is right, by all means buy High Speed with Ethernet, but if you can’t, it’s no biggie either way. High Speed HDMI cable supports video resolutions of 1080p, 4K (at 30 Hz), 3D, and deep color. Read more: Beginner’s guide to HDMI: Features, Specs, speeds and release dates Standard HDMI cables transmit audio and video at 1080i and 720p. The Standard cables with an Ethernet channel provide internet connection sharing and device networking. The above capabilities start from HDMI 1.4 specification onwards. ///When buying an HDMI cable, any of these will do, depending on your needs. A Standard HDMI cable will do for someone not overly concerned with crystal clear quality. Unless you have devices supporting Ethernet-via-HDMI, you shouldn’t concern yourself with these. Your best bet would be the High Speed or the Premium High Speed HDMI cables.
HDMI cable Length
Buy an HDMI cable of a length suitable to your needs. Excess wire for devices that will stay in the same place for the foreseeable future is a waste. Too short a wire is a inconvenience too if you intend to use your devices further apart. Cable length starts from 1 foot, 3 feet, 6 feet to over 50 feet. Camcorders/cameras, decoders, DVD players and the like which you don’t need to move around can work with 3 feet of cable.
Source/Output device
It goes to reason that a 1080p TV will only show a 720p video resolution if at all that’s the maximum output your source device can manage. For this reason, buy an HDMI cable with the features supported by both your source and output device. A Standard HDMI cable will handle your 720p and 1080i resolution on devices with corresponding features just fine. A High Speed HDMI cable will take advantage of 1080p, 4K, 3D, name it.
HDMI cable price
