• 11 years ago
@Chimaera96 had a question about Monoprices' Redmere Active HDMI Cables and tweeted, "Directional is good? As in, full bandwidth available? Is that a 1.4 thing, needed for 3D or 4K?" We explain what Active HDMI cables do well... and what they break.

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