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Casting your favorite movie to your TV is simple. You can even do it just by speaking to your phone or digital assistant. But for that, you’d need a whole bunch of smarts in your TV, and a digital assistant device and whatnot. Before all of this came along, there was, and in many homes and offices, still is, a simple cable to connect something to a display. It was the  HDMI cable . But it was also the HDMI to DVI cable. While casting may seem like the simpler option, these cables didn’t require an internet connection, nor a power plug. It is just the connection cable that works with the connected devices themselves. These cables were the only way to display anything to the big screen. Not only can you connect your computer to your TV, but also a projector very easily. Let’s explore where you’d use the different cables: The Main Television Setup: TVs generally have one or maybe 2 HDMI ports. This is not always sufficient. You need one to connect to a cable box, if yo...

With the streaming wars heating up, the fight is for the biggest screen in your home. All the streaming companies are looking for a way to make you stream TV shows, and movies that they make, and some of them come with devices. On the other hand, some streaming services run over the air and don’t require a special hardware device. Buying the hardware is not expensive. It is often a one-time purchase and can last you about a decade, after which standards may change and you might end up wanting to upgrade. But the subscription cost of each service tends to mount up quite significantly. So you have to be really picky about which service you like, and even which networks, film studios you like so you can plan for the future. However, just because the streaming services and boxes want to be in your TV, doesn’t mean your TV is ready for this upgrade. Fortunately for you, for a long time now, TVs have come with HDMI ports, at least one if not more. And apart from the HDMI port, there ...

The purpose of technology is to make your life simpler. But if you have gone to buy a new TV or a streaming box in the past couple of years, you know that there is nothing simple about it. If you look at the features and specifications, you will see a lot of phrases, which seem to be self-explanatory but are definitely not. Let’s attempt to figure out the multiple devices that are available and navigate how to get the most of them, what cables to use, etc. Display Resolution: HD Ready [720p (1280x720 pixels)] sounds pretty good until you do some basic research and realize that’s not the same as Full HD [1080p (1920x1080 pixels)]. Then as you go for a much higher resolution than that, you get 4K and 8K displays. 8K is not mainstream yet, so we don’t have to worry about that now. The “p” that you see here after 720 and 1080 refers to ‘progressive scan’. This, along with the screen refresh rate, decides the potential smoothness of your display. The refresh rate is genera...