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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    HDMI FORUM RELEASES VERSION 2.0 OF THE HDMI SPECIFICATION

    Increased bandwidth provides the infrastructure for new features that will drive the next generation of consumer entertainment

    BERLIN, Germany - September 4, 2013 – IFA 2013 – HDMI Forum, Inc., a non-profit, mutual benefit corporation, today announced the release of Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification. This latest HDMI Specification, the first to be developed by the HDMI Forum, offers a significant increase in bandwidth (up to 18Gbps) to support new features such as 4K@50/60 (2160p), which is 4 times the clarity of 1080p/60 video resolution; 32 audio channels; as well as dynamic auto lip-sync and extensions to CEC. The complete Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification is available to Adopters on the HDMI Adopter Extranet. HDMI Licensing, LLC will host a press conference to discuss the new features of the HDMI 2.0 Specification at IFA 2013 in Berlin on Friday, September 6 at 12:00pm in the TecWatch Forum area of Hall 11.1.

    Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification, which is backward compatible with earlier versions of the Specification, was developed by the HDMI Forum's Technical Working Group whose members represent some of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics, personal computers, mobile devices, cables and components. The HDMI Forum currently has a membership of 88 companies.

    "The introduction of the HDMI 2.0 Specification represents a major milestone for the HDMI Forum," said Robert Blanchard of Sony Corporation, president of the HDMI Forum. "Our members collaborated closely to take the highly successful HDMI Specification to the next level by expanding audio and video features for consumer electronics applications."

    The HDMI Forum has chosen HDMI Licensing, LLC to be the Agent to license Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification. In this role, HDMI Licensing, LLC will provide marketing, promotional, licensing and administrative services, as well as education on the benefits of the HDMI Specification to adopters, retailers, and consumers.

    "We are pleased to continue our work in supporting the HDMI Adopter base as well as the entire HDMI ecosystem," said Steve Venuti, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. "Adopters can now continue to develop new product functionality over the HDMI interface as well as look to HDMI Licensing, LLC as their single contact for all their licensing and administrative needs."

    Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification does not define new cables or new connectors. Current High Speed cables (category 2 cables) are capable of carrying the increased bandwidth.

    The HDMI 2.0 Compliance Test Specification (CTS) is expected to be released before the end of 2013.

    For more information about Version 2.0 of the HDMI Specification please visit http://www.hdmi.org.

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  • karlkarl

    According to this article, HDMI 2.0 introduces 4:2:0 chroma subsampling support, and practically every TV manufacturer has opted to support only that for 2160p signals - for the time being.

    This, IMHO, is a bad omen, given how many useful features already vanished from almost all TVs on the market for cost reduction reasons (like non-glare surfaces, really local [not-just-edge-light] dimming, true R/G/B LED backlight etc.).

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Major brands started announcing 2014 models of receivers with HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2

    Onkyo

    Pioneer

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    http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/newsroom/news/VSX_series/page.html

  • BurnetRhoadesBurnetRhoades

    I hope they've improved the connector. A lot.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @BurnetRhoades

    Huh. It has nothing about HDMI connector or it's suitability for camera work.

  • BurnetRhoadesBurnetRhoades

    That's disappointing. Here was an opportunity to correct some poor engineering.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Here was an opportunity to correct some poor engineering.

    Huge amount of devices with HDMI connectors are used worldwide.

    Just not try to use connector that it is not made for.

  • BurnetRhoadesBurnetRhoades

    It's a disaster for professional use, true, but it's not a good consumer spec either. For home theater use it can be quite problematic. The connector is so poorly designed the pull of gravity on the cable portion can, on numerous televisions with ports facing downward, pull the connector out just enough to disrupt signal.

    Professional installers, the kind with 24hr call access from their clients, routinely run back up connections with component video or DVI because they get so many service calls from bad HDMI cables, loose HDMI cables, etc. That way when that call comes at 2AM on a Sunday they can have the customer just switch to the redundant feed and they don't have to get out of bed because of poor engineering.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @BurnetRhoades

    OK, having many HDMI cables I did not have any real big issues.

    Also, all this talk has nothing to do with topic title. :-)

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