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USB-C
USB-C is a reversible USB connector standard supporting data transfer, charging, and video output using a symmetrical connector and cable design.
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Why did the cheap cable fail completely?
The last thing I learned about these cables is that there are passive and active cables. A passive cable simply passes the signal through, assuming your devices already know how to talk to each other, while an active cable contains a chip inside that converts one signal into another. This matters because HDMI and USB-C are not the same things, nor the same signal. If I were connecting a USB-C laptop to an HDMI monitor, a simple passive-looking cable might work because the USB-C device is already sending a compatible video through DP Alt Mode. But since I was trying to connect from HDMI to my U
I bought an HDMI-to-USB-C cable that didn't work, and now I know why they're so confusing