An HDMI Cable: Most Essential Tool for Your TV Setup
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...