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Not stated

Machine output
HDMI cable
Monitor input
Panel
Not stated: the listing does not sayNothing in these listings states where this path is capped. The node that would decide it is the one marked “HDMI cable”, and the cable, and nothing in the listing says which category of cable you have.

An HDMI cable of an unstated version

Every HDMI plug fits every HDMI socket. The connector has not changed shape across specification versions, so the fit tells you nothing.

What each node contributes

Machine output

The laptop listings in this catalog do not name their ports at all. Whatever this end can send is not stated by any listing here.

HDMI cable · decides this

Cables are certified in named categories by the HDMI Licensing Administrator. A cable that says only HDMI has told you the connector shape and nothing about the category it was certified in.

Monitor input

Most screens here name an HDMI input. Almost none of them name a version for it.

Panel

The refresh figure in a monitor listing describes what the panel can do. It is a real number about a real part.

Why it looks fine on the page

The number on the box is true. The panel really does run at the refresh rate stated, and the socket really is HDMI. What the listing never claims — because no listing claims it — is that a particular mode arrives at the panel over a particular cable. Those are three separate facts about three separate parts, printed next to each other on one page, and a reader assembles them into a promise that nobody made.

Counted in this catalog

  • 13of the 14 screens here name an HDMI input
  • 2of those 13 name which HDMI version that input is
  • 4laptop listings here, and none of them name a port of any kind

What is actually limited here

The cable, and nothing in the listing says which category of cable you have.

What to check instead

  1. Whether the monitor listing states an HDMI version at all, or only the word HDMI.
  2. Whether the cable itself carries a certification category, printed on the cable or its packaging, rather than only the four letters.
  3. What the machine manufacturer publishes about its own video output, since no laptop listing in this catalog states it.
  4. Whether the resolution and refresh figures in the listing are stated together as one mode, or separately as two numbers.

Where this connects

Sources for this page

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