The correct cable needed for the equipment you have is the HDMI 4K UHD/HDR cable. The primary features that these line of cables offer are not helpful, but necessary when upgrading your home television setup into the 4K ballgame. The core of the reason is because of the dramatic increase in data a 4K device produces and pushes to your television or through a receiver, for those that have that configuration. On the topic of Ethernet, you’ll find that the cables I’ve mentioned above will all have Ethernet included as a part of the HDMI cable. It’s almost standard I’d go so far as to say. But it is not one of the features that serve a role in ensuring the new high-quality-high-definition media content is wiewed as it was meant to be wiewed. There is no research required on your part when deciding what you’ll need to get either. The lowest, non-flashy brand of 4K UHD/HDR is going have all the necessary features that a top name brand will have in their product, but almost criminally higher pricing. The reason the cable I’ve mentioned is the only correct component you should be using with your new 4K device is because they are specificity designed to support the increased transfer speed needed to for the dramatically greater amount of data I mentioned to before, to be played lag-free, and with as little of loss picture quality as possible. In order to support the HDR contect your Apple TV will produce on a lot of thi movies realeased today rests entirely on connecting your television and your 4K Apple TV with the correct cable.
The short version is with the development with devices and services that are being offered in a greater resolution and sound quality that ever before, the supporting equipment had to be enhanced to make it possible to view all these new forms of HD media we are offiered. 4K is of course 4 times the resolution of the 1080 we were not that long ago all watching. It takes a purposely aware approach to tackling that challenge and it simply can not be achieved with connecting the cords in the manner you asked about at the beginning of this thread.
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there are quite a few HDMI over cat5 adapters,
even though they use cat5, they are not ethernet.
so you can't run the cable through a network switch, or use the same piece of cable for ethernet and HDMI at the same time.
hdmi over cat5
As WAW74 stated, an HDMI cable with Ethernet incorporated in it is not for the transfer of network data like that that is transferred through like a purely CAT-5e model cable carries in your computer network activities. The presence of Ethernet in Video & Audio subject is to provide the required speed needed to carry the media in this new form. It is not playing any role in terms of the video image or audio file that makes up what is going to be shown or displayed on your television. Additionally the presence of CAT-5e quality Ethernet provides the significantlly larger range now needed to accommodate the video and audio from the source to the tv. Your traditional Ethernet we used to use would not be able to have accomplished this due to the smaller bandwidth it produced. CAT-5e produces 100 Mbz of bandwidth which is simply referring to the range of frequency able to reliably use. Wider range of frequency simply allows more space for the media to travel through and with 4K content being 4 times higher resolution than the previous 1080, without the Ethernet inside the HDMI cables to provide the wider range the 4K content would simply get never reach the television in the necessary form needed to give is the amazing picture we get today
