Answers.Body: <p>No it does not mean you can do anything wirelessly - it is a cable - and it isn't likely to help you stream anything to it either, unless you have a requirement for HDMI devices to share a network connection.</p>
  
  <p>Version 1.4 of the HDMI standard allows for 100Mb ethernet to be transmitted along the cable between to HDMI 1.4 capable devices.</p>
  
  <p>Check out the <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HDMI">HDMI wikipedia</a> page for some basic info</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I've noted that the crop of current-gen TVs have an increasing amount of multimedia functionality. Taking this one step into the future, if (in theory) you had a display, NAS (or other storage medium) and an amp / switcher all supporting HDMI ethernet you could likely forego the requirement to have a separate network cable to connect them all together. Single cable streaming! I like the logical step of removing another cable, the final thing we we need is Power over Ethernet over HDMI (PoEoH... 'poweoh'? Sounds like Schwarzenegger trying to pronounce 'power' ;-) - THEN we're cooking with gas.
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Body: <p>What exactly does "Ethernet-capable HDMI cable" mean?</p>
  
  <p>Does this mean I can stream content wirelessly to my projector?</p>
  
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Title: What exactly does "Ethernet-capable HDMI cable" mean?
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ThreadText: # What exactly does "Ethernet-capable HDMI cable" mean?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2011-10-10)
  
  What exactly does "Ethernet-capable HDMI cable" mean?
  
  Does this mean I can stream content wirelessly to my projector?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2011-10-10. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  No it does not mean you can do anything wirelessly - it is a cable - and it isn't likely to help you stream anything to it either, unless you have a requirement for HDMI devices to share a network connection.
  
  Version 1.4 of the HDMI standard allows for 100Mb ethernet to be transmitted along the cable between to HDMI 1.4 capable devices.
  
  Check out the [HDMI wikipedia](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HDMI) page for some basic info
  
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  > **username_2**: I've noted that the crop of current-gen TVs have an increasing amount of multimedia functionality. Taking this one step into the future, if (in theory) you had a display, NAS (or other storage medium) and an amp / switcher all supporting HDMI ethernet you could likely forego the requirement to have a separate network cable to connect them all together. Single cable streaming! I like the logical step of removing another cable, the final thing we we need is Power over Ethernet over HDMI (PoEoH... 'poweoh'? Sounds like Schwarzenegger trying to pronounce 'power' ;-) - THEN we're cooking with gas.  
  
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