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Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by magicalhippo on Sunday March 30, 2025 @12:31AM (#43521359)
> maybe circuitry inside the cable that draws power from the HDMI port

Pretty much:

https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/HDMI/how-do-active-hdmi-ca...

Perhaps they're better now but, yeah, for me it didn't work out as intended.

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Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by whatevertrevor on Sunday March 30, 2025 @02:27AM (#43521835)
I've not had any issues getting full bandwidth (4k60hz) from my active HDMI cable.

Also I believe there are displayport cables that do the data transfer over optical fiber for long runs as well.

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Re:Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop sof... by diggan on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:21AM (#43523565)
Sounds like hocus pocus to me (like gold plated connectors), maybe you get like half a meter of extended distance or something with those? If I had to I'd go the repeater way (or as others mentioned: fiber, but sounds expensive and not maintenance free)
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