Recent content by mwalimu

Today I received the 2.1 active cable (30'). It worked! Now that I have a known working cable, I can try harder to bend the old damaged cable back the way it was. If it works, I'll put it in my laptop bag and may use it when I travel. When I RMAed the 25' cable, Newegg gave me the refund and...

Thank you to those who responded. I have ordered an active 2.1 cable and will be returning the one that didn't work.

My setup: I have a Win10 laptop with an HDMI port. Sometimes I take it to my living room and plug it into one of the HDMI ports of my widescreen TV, which Windows recognizes as a second display, and watch videos (using VLC or at various websites that can play videos in fullscreen mode). I've...