DVI/HDMI Cables:

All of the cables above are available in DVI/HDMI configuration as well as the standard HDMI/HDMI configuration. DVI/HDMI cables have a single-link DVI-D connector on one end and an HDMI connector on the other. These cables function equally well in either direction: HDMI to DVI, or DVI to HDMI. We're often asked why there isn't a DVI-I to HDMI cable or a DVI-D Dual Link to HDMI cable; the reason is that HDMI (at least, the 19-pin version of HDMI implemented on all consumer HDMI devices) is a single-link, digital-only standard, so there's no way to hook it up either to a DVI analog or Dual-Link signal; one could put the DVI-I or Dual-Link type connector on the cable, but the additional pins at the DVI end wouldn't actually be hooked up to anything. In principle, HDMI is supposed always to be backward-compatible with DVI, so that any HDMI device should work with any DVI-D single-link device. In practice, although the two almost always work together, it's not uncommon to run into device compatibility issues.