Tripp Lite's 3-ft. High Speed HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) Gold Cable allows interconnection between digital display devices such as DTV's (Digital Television) Plasma displays LCD TV's and projectors to Digital source devices such as Digital Set-Top boxes Blu-Ray players and AV receivers. Supports iPad2 Video Mirroring when used with Apple Digital AV Adapter. HDMI assures that the best audio/video signal is always sent from the source (HDTV signal Blu-Ray Player) to the display (Projection Television LCD Plasma etc.). It does this by allowing uncompressed video and multi-channel audio data to be input to the display device through one single cable. An HDMI connection allows input at high rates of speed up to 18 Gbps.