5 surprising things HDMI can do that have nothing to do with a screen

HDMI is, for most people, just how the picture gets there. Plug it in, something appears on the screen, done. That's fair — the image is usually the whole point. But the spec has carried a lot of additional capability for years that quietly goes unused in most setups. Your cables themselves have more going on than the box suggests, and the ports they plug into even more so.

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