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Re: HDMI, DVI standard, adaptability?

From Look165 <look165@numericable.fr>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design, alt.engineering.electrical
Subject Re: HDMI, DVI standard, adaptability?
Date 2016-11-08 16:51 +0100
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And the cable is not the same !

Rob a écrit :
> DaveC <not@home.cow> wrote:
>> I see plenty of DVI-to-HDMI and HDIM-to-DVI adapters to be purchased.
>>
>> Are these standards equally convertible without losing fidelity
>> (manufacturing quality issues aside)? Are such adapters simply
>> pin-configuration adapters with no circuitry?
>
> They are.  HDMI is just a further development of DVI, using different
> connectors and adding new features, but the digital frame format is
> the same.  A DVI signal can be displayed on a HDMI device without
> problem, but the reverse is not necessarily true.  Note that a HDMI
> signal usually includes audio, and a DVI device cannot handle it.  So,
> when you have audio, you need a device to separate it out of the HDMI
> (such a simple adapter won't do that) or use an alternate audio output
> connector on the device (e.g. cinch).
>

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HDMI, DVI standard, adaptability? DaveC <not@home.cow> - 2016-11-07 22:50 -0800
  Re: HDMI, DVI standard, adaptability? Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2016-11-08 09:26 +0000
    Re: HDMI, DVI standard, adaptability? Look165 <look165@numericable.fr> - 2016-11-08 16:51 +0100
    Re: HDMI, DVI standard, adaptability? krw <krw@somewhere.com> - 2016-11-08 19:05 -0500

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