摘要 |
A smart cable apparatus includes resources that provide for additional functionally such as cable authentication and cable identification. The cable apparatus can be configured for coupling an electronic device such as a media player to other electronic devices such as media player accessories. The cable apparatus includes one more processing components that can be integrated as part of the cable apparatus. The one or more processing components can be configured to identify the type of signal the cable apparatus is intended to carry, and to communicate that information to the electronic device to which it is connected. The types of signals that the cable can carry are from among composite video, component video, S-video, HDMI and other digital video formats. |