When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. HDMI ARC (Audio Return Channel) and eARC remove the need for a separate audio cable when sending ...

Over the years, there have been plenty of different ways to get audio into an AV receiver as part of your home theater setup. For components like DVD players, this was always fairly straightforward: ...

So you purchased a new big-screen TV this Black Friday and want to buy some accessories. One of those accessories is probably some HDMI cable so you can interface with your Xbox, Playstation 5, ...

Once you’ve got your new TV out of the packaging, you’ll no doubt spend some time studying the inputs on the back. You’ll work out which cable goes in where, and may have noticed that one of the HDMI ...

If you've bought a TV, soundbar, or AV receiver at any point over the last five years or so, there's a good chance it has an HDMI ARC port. The "ARC" in that moniker stands for Audio Return Channel, a ...

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Whether you're watching one of the best OLED TVs, one of the best QLEDs, or enjoying an older set that's still delivering a great picture all these years later, you need to make sure you have a ...

You might only think of HDMI as the type of cable you use to connect your TV, cable box, streaming media player, and other home theater gear, but it’s also a standard that defines just what type of ...

The HDMI forum has announced a new HDMI standard, dubbed 2.1. The new protocol will have some interesting features including higher display resolutions, among them 4K 120Hz, 8K 60hz, Dynamic HDR.

It's an interesting world in terms of the way and sense in which things work; HDMI 2.0 is now non-existent and has been absorbed into the HDMI 2.1 naming. The HDMI 2.0 standard was phased out by the ...