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HDMI 1. 4 / 2. 0 Cable, HEVC, HDCPOverview: The Cables you need for the rich 4. K experience. 4K TV connectivity is pretty straightforward for the most part. As long as you know the essential technologies at work inside your particular TV, you should be able to get it up and running in no time for a rich entertainment media experience that includes streaming 4. K and non- 4. K content sources from the web (mostly through your TVs smart apps or those of an external set- top device), 4. K content from external streaming media devices via HDMI and 4. K content from hard media boxes like 4.

K Blu- ray players and media players with preloaded content in their hard drives. For these essentials to work on your UHD TV, you mainly need to have a model that’s compatible with a few essential connectivity- related technologies which include HDMI, internet connectivity, Wi.

Fi, possibly Display. Port and some essential specs for 4. K video compression and content copy protection. Luckily, the vast majority of modern 4. K televisionss, particularly all late 2. We’re now going to cover all of these connectivity essentials and guide you through the main methods of getting the 4. K entertainment flowing to your TV display, gaming connectivity, audio and what associated technologies are essential for all of the above to function smoothly.

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Typical connectivity layout in a 4. K TVHDMIThe first and most fundamental connectivity spec in any 4. K TV is HDMI. Most models on sale today offer at least three HDMI ports and some 4.

K TVs even include as many as four or five HDMI ports. In older 4. K TVs the majority of HDMI ports were of the older, weaker HDMI 1. HDMI 2. 0 ports available. Now however, this is changing and most newer 4. K televisions offer full HDMI 2. HDMI 2. 0a. If these different numbers for HDMI seem confusing, not to worry, they break down simply like this as far as your 4.

K needs are concerned. HDMI 1. 4, the older and steadily less common spec in name brand 4. K TVs is designed more for support of Full HD content at high refresh rates (high frame rates).

K UHD content at 3. HDMI 1. 4 cables and thus for 4. K UHD content connectivity, this spec is not ideal or much use for 4. K content from external devices like media players for another reason we’ll go into shortly, involving HDCP 2.

Thus, for any modern 4. K TV that’s going to connect to any modern 4. K UHD media streaming or playing device, the spec you’re really after is HDMI 2. Showtime Full Century Hotel Online Free. This newer version of HDMI offers 4. K video resolution at a smooth, decently fast 6. Hz refresh). Furthermore, HDMI 2. GBps and thus also supports 6.

K video with 1. 2- bit 4: 2: 2 color, 4: 2: 0 chroma subsampling and up to 3. Other features of HDMI 2. Rec. 2. 02. 0 color, improved 3.

D display functionality and a 2. Also, all HDMI 2. HDMI 1. 4 cables. If all of these additionally details look a bit complicated, just keep in mind this basic fact: HDMI 2. K TV to receive 4. K UHD content from external sources at 6.

This is the most important spec for the standard as it related to ultra HD. Finally, we also come down to HDMI 2. HDMI 2. 0 and is now also appearing in a growing list of newer 4. K UHD TV models. Most premium name brand 2. K televisions already come with HDMI 2. Why? Because HDMI 2.

HDMI 2. 0, also happens to support high dynamic range content from external media sources. This is its largest attraction and utility.

HDR content encoding creates a major difference in 4. K video quality. As far as what brand of HDMI cable to go for, the general rule is that there is little if any difference between cables from one manufacturer vs another. As long as the base specs of any given cable are what you need for your particular TV and 4. K video resolution needs, one brand is pretty much as good as another as far as performance goes.

HDCP 2. 2. Whenever HDMI 2. K ultra HD content, a word that commonly gets mentioned is HDCP, and more specifically, HDCP 2. This acronym stands for “High- bandwidth Digital Content Protection” and the 2. K ultra HD content from any source, be it streaming, download or hard drive media box, against unauthorized copying of the content in question for the sake of piracy. Conversely, your 4. K TV won’t be able to receive 4.

K content from commercial consumer sources if it doesn’t have HDCP 2. HDMI 2. 0 ports. Luckily however, pretty much all current 4. K TVs offer up HDCP 2. K streaming devices and 4. K Blu- ray player models do as well, usually via their HDMI 2. HDMI with HDCP 2. As we’d said above, HDMI 1.

K content to your 4. K TV and aside from its weakness at handling ultra HD video at high frame rates, the main reason why is that HDMI 1. HDCP 2. 2 compatibility. Users who plan on only viewing 1. HD content don’t need to worry about HDCP 2. K TV, you’re naturally going to want to enjoy 4.

K content on it and for this, HDCP 2. HDCP 2. 2 compliant 4. K TVs won’t display HDCP 2. K content from any source. It’s mostly that simple. Once again however, this shouldn’t be a problem. Every name brand 4.

K TV from late 2. HDCP 2. 2 integration through its HDMI ports. Internet Connectivity, Media apps and Wi. Fi. As we’d covered in our previous guide on 4. K TV smart platforms, smart functionality in a 4. K TV is the core of its truly rich streaming media value. This applies for 4.

K media and for non- 4. K media of all types. Now, while pretty much all 4. K TVs on sale today already come with their own built in smart TV platforms with access to hundreds or even thousands of media apps, A 4. K TV can also make use of the streaming media apps and smart platform interfaces built into external set top boxes, thus letting a user switch between their 4.

K TV’s smart interface and an external smart media interface like that found in the Roku 4 4. K set- top box, or the Amazon Fire 4.

K TV box. internet connectivity is essential for accessing smart TV streaming media content. Whichever of these smart platforms you’re going to use, you will absolutely have to have internet connectivity running to either your 4. K TV itself or at least to your external set- top box if you want to access all those diverse sources of streaming movies, shows, music and other entertainment. For users who want to also access streaming 4. K content from apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video or Hulu and You.

Tube, they will not only need to have internet connectivity going to their 4. K TV but that internet connectivity will also have to of the high speed type that offers at least 1.

Mbps and more ideally 2. Mbps. This is where your 4.

K TVs Ethernet port comes into the picture. In simple terms, it connects your 4. K TV to your household internet at maximum velocity for the fastest possible online media and web browsing connectivity. Most current 4. K TVs from name brands like Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Vizio also come with built- in Wi.

Fi connectivity. So even if you don’t connect the TVs to the web via Ethernet, you can use their smart interfaces and browsing through Wi. Fi. This is workable but it won’t allow for 4. K UHD streaming since existing consumer wireless connections aren’t capable of the bandwidth needed for smoothly transmitting ultra HD content.

Gaming Connectivity. K TV used for gaming. For the most part, 4.

K UHD gaming is done only via PC games and UHD- compatible GPUs since none of the existing major console systems like the Play. Station 4, Xbox One or Nintendo Wii offer 4. K game support quite yet. With this in mind, you can use your 4. K TV as a sort of giant 4.

K PC monitor that connects to your GPU and PC rig but with a couple of caveats kept in mind. First of all, very few 4. K TVs offer Display.

Port 1. 2 connectivity. This is the connection standard most used in current 4. K gaming between GPU and 4. K PC monitor (most 4. K PC monitors do offer Display. Port 1. 2 connectivity). Thus, in order to connect your PC GPU to your 4.

K TV, you’ll either have to do so via HDMI 2. This can either be done by buying a GPU with HDMI connectivity —like one of NVIDIA’s newer graphics cards—or by getting your hands on a Display.