Does a Wally require a specific type of HDMI port on TV?

[BarnRat]

Does the Wally require a specific type of HDMI port on the TV? My newer Sharp TV has 3 HDMI ports: ARC, MHL, and DVI. The Apple TV is connected into the MHL/HDMI port. Can the Wally be plugged into the ARC/HDMI or DVI/HDMI port?

Also, my older Sharp TV has 4 HDMI ports but they are just labeled "HDMI" in the owner's manual and on the TV itself. Will the Wally be OK connected to one of these "older" HDMI ports?

 

[Radioguy41]

No specific HDMI port required.

 

[BarnRat]

Thank you.

No specific HDMI port required.

Thank you.

 

[Jim5506]

Technically the DVI port is NOT an HDMI port, DVI spec does not have to include audio and was mostly used on computers. Here is a picture of both ends of a DVI to HDMI adapter. The DVI is on the left.

 

[BarnRat]

Technically the DVI port is NOT an HDMI port, . . .

Are you saying that the HDMI port on my TV labeled with "DVI" is not a true HDMI port? Then it can't be used by the Wally?

BTW, thanks for the info.

 

[dishdude]

Are you saying that the HDMI port on my TV labeled with "DVI" is not a true HDMI port? Then it can't be used by the Wally?

You can use that port for the Wally, it'll function as an HDMI port or work with a DVI to HDMI connector.

 

[BarnRat]

You can use that port for the Wally, it'll function as an HDMI port or work with a DVI to HDMI connector.

OK, thanks for the clarification.

 

[Jim5506]

The ARC and MHL ports are a specific expansion or variant of HDMI whereas DVI is the video portion of HDMI only - as I understand it. Why they would use that label today is strange it is almost an an acronmism as DVI has been supplanted on the PC by Display Port.