Televisions have evolved in recent decades, not only in screen, but also in connections, and it is likely that some connections that you have behind your television, you do not know completely well, especially if we talk about the HDMI inputs, because we have different ones.
It could be said that thanks to the HDMI standard, the audio and video signal was unified in a single cable, making the RCA system that was with us during our childhood consoles obsolete.
The High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) has different versions, some prepared to support higher resolutions and one unknown to many called HDMI ARC.
The most unknown port of our televisions It is the HDMI ARC that has some advantages over a conventional HDMI.
And it is that the initials of HDMI ARC mean High Definition Multimedia Interface Audio Return Channel, and that can already give you a clue.
Specifically, the HDMI ARC saves us time and space, basically because it is a dedicated connection for sound.
Thanks to this connection it is possible to send the audio of the TV to a sound bar or to another sound system without the need to use the fiber optic cable that these equipments have in parallel.
In this way, we would only need two HDMI cables to improve the audio of the television, one will be connected to the sound bar and the other to the television, and nothing else. HDMI ARC is the most comfortable and direct way to connect other audio equipment to the television.
Other versions of HDMI
But not only does HDMI ARC exist, but we also have the existence of HDMI 2.0 or 2.1, new versions of HDMI that are born to support higher resolutions.
With each new version of HDMI, new functions are included that translate into greater bandwidth, which allows increasing the resolution of the image or its frequency, explain our colleagues from HobbyConsolas.
In this way, when buying your new television, you should not only see that it includes the relevant HDMI inputs, but also the version of them, and see if one of them is ARC, especially if you are a lover of good sound. .
