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Technology Explained

23/01/2023

Graphene Shielding

Graphene shielding is not a new technology but is starting to appear on the market in cables. Without getting into the scientific side of Graphene and keeping it simple, Graphene provides 100% shield coverage and provides better EMI protection than conventional methods such as foil and braiding. With Graphene being so thin, cables can be made very slim and with the use of TPE jackets instead of PVC, you can have a very flexible cable while keeping its strength. One of our ranges that currently use Graphene shielding is the... Read More

01/07/2019

MST- What’s it all about?

You’ve probably heard the term MST knocking about when looking at cables and devices etc. So what is it? Its stands for multi-stream transport. The basic explanation is that it allows you to use multiple monitors over one connection. Do I need it? It depends on if you want it. As MST was introduced in DisplayPort v1.2 you will now see USB Type C Adapters with MST because USB Type C uses DisplayPort altmode to connect to monitors via one port. If you do want it, you need a device... Read More

26/01/2018

USB C and Alt Mode Confusion

Ok so we have USB Type C (covered in a different blog) and we all know about USB 3.1 by now, we know DisplayPort Alt Mode (DP Alt Mode) allows you to connect to different displays via adapters. USB Type C ports cannot connect to displays unless it has DP Alt Mode but this could change, HDMI announced a while back that they will be releasing HDMI Alt Mode via USB C. Officially from the HDMI website… “HDMI Alt Mode will support the full range of HDMI 1.4b features such... Read More

06/04/2017

HDMI and Premium Certification

HDMI confusing at the moment? and along comes another version. But first a little history… You may remember all HDMI cables were given version numbers and these listed what specification the cable is built to. Back in 2012 this was changed and version numbers were changed in to categories. Standard HDMI Standard HDMI with Ethernet Standard Automotive HDMI High Speed HDMI High Speed HDMI with Ethernet This was supposed to make things easier but when the system first came out people were trying to fit version numbers in to categories,... Read More

06/04/2017

DVI Explained

We often get asked about DVI cables and adapters, so without going into too much detail we shall cover the basics. There are 3 types of DVI.. DVI-A – This is the analogue version that DOES NOT handle digital signals DVI-I – This can handle both digital and analogue signals DVI-D – This is the digital version and CANNOT handle analogue signals DVI-I and DVI-D can then be split down in to single link and dual link, the main difference between the two is dual link offers larger screen resolutions.... Read More