Buy with Confidence: With Monoprice's Lifetime Warranty on all Cables, you can rest assured we stand behind our products and our customers. If you have a male connector on your HDMI cable you can plug it into the female HDMI connector on this adapter and cable will then have a male DVI connector on the end. This adapter can be used to connect HDMI cables to DVI monitors or HDMI cables to older televisions that have DVI inputs. Note: The photo of the HDMI side is a female connector but the metal cage of the connector is exposed instead of covered like it would be on the back of a piece of equipment.