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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by flangola7 on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:05PM (#35485674)
But why. HDMI is a video transmission format.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by syntheticnature on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:38PM (#35486673)
To reduce the number of cables, in theory, though as noted it's not really implemented.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by flangola7 on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:32AM (#35491357)
But why would I ever need to connect Ethernet to a display that already has a video cable?
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by tiagod on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:42AM (#35494379)
I think the idea was that you, for example, plug your console to the TV with HDMI and it would pass through Ethernet as well.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by tedunangst on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:38PM (#35486679)
It's a multimedia interface.
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Re:Ask Wirecutter: Can You Recommend a Not-Smart TV for Me? by BizarroLand on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:32PM (#35488517)
Exactly. Thats what the MI in HDMI stands for.
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