{"id":34585,"date":"2021-12-30T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34585"},"modified":"2022-01-05T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:16:46","slug":"the-confusing-world-of-hdmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/the-confusing-world-of-hdmi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Confusing World of HDMI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Baker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In this article we want to look at what the “HDMI 2.1” term really<\/em> means, and address a worrying early sign in the market of things to come. We’ve delved in to what is required for this certification and what that means to you as a consumer if you ever want to buy something labelled with HDMI 2.1. Don’t make any assumptions about what that will give you, sadly it doesn’t seem to be nearly as simple as that.<\/p>\n

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This rang alarm bells for us, as it appeared that they were advertising a device which had only the capabilities of HDMI 2.0 under the new HDMI 2.1 name. It even specifically says it only used TMDS from v2.0 and not FRL. We’ve already touched on what we think an average consumer will expect when they see HDMI 2.1 listed, and so we queried this with HDMI.org, the HDMI Licensing Administrator to see whether this was dodgy or “fake”.<\/p>\n

We covered above what we believe the common consumer expectation <\/em>is in terms of capabilities and features when they see HDMI 2.1 advertised. If you delve in to the detail of HDMI 2.1 you will probably be surprised to hear that actually none of these things are required<\/em>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The people who write the HDMI spec should get together with those behind USB-C<\/a> so they can create a single port that nobody understands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n