The HDMI interface is electrically identical and compatible with the video-only DVI interface, which came first. For example, if a cable box or PC has DVI out, but the TV or monitor only has HDMI ...

We’ve found the best USB-C–to–HDMI, USB-C–to–DisplayPort, USB-C–to–DVI, and USB-C–to–VGA cables and adapters to help you use your new computer with the video display you prefer.

To handle the increased bandwidth, HDMI 2.2 requires new cables. Though colloquially these will almost certainly get called ...

This scheme has been inherited from DVI, and HDMI has mostly built upon it ... you couldn’t simply disconnect all of them and replicate the VGA cable missing colour effect – there’s more ...