HDMI is the Bee's Knees, Promoters (and In-Stat) Say
HDMI is the Bee's Knees, Promoters (and In-Stat) Say
Posted 01/09/2012 at 6:55am
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If you want to know what's all that and a bag of delicious potato chips (preferably Sea Salt & Vinegar, mmm), look no further than your HDMI cord and compatible electronic devices, of which you should have many. In 2012, market research firm In-Stat expects 1,150 licensed HDMI Adopters to ship more than 800 million HDMI-compliant products, a prediction HDMI Licensing, LLC and the HDMI Forum, Inc. are all too happy to announce.
They have reason to be excited. If In-Stat's crystal ball is locked onto a true future timeline, the number of HDMI-compliant product shipments will increase 17 percent over 2011 and translate into an installed base of over 3.1 billion HDMI products worldwide, which itself would be a 34 percent jump over 2011.
"During 2011, HDMI technology expanded its reach in the consumer electronics space and started to penetrate new market segments such as automotive and portable handheld devices," said Steve Venuti, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. "With the launch of the HDMI Forum in October of 2011, we expect to see even stronger demand for HDMI technology in the coming years."
The HDMI Forum oversees all new standardization activities, such as the development of future versions of the HDMI spec. It currently consists of 43 members with a number of technology heavyweights, companies like Apple, AMD, Dolby, Hitachi, Motorola, Nvidia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, and dozens more.
"We are very pleased that in just over 2 months, 43 leading consumer electronics, PC and mobile products companies have joined the HDMI Forum," said Rambod Jacoby, president of the HDMI Forum, Inc. "With broader participation in the development of the HDMI Specification, HDMI will continue to be the leading consumer interface for HD devices."
The next version of the HDMI Specification will introduce higher resolutions and address new video timings and other features. It's expected to be ready in the second half of this year.
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axiomatic
January 10, 2012 at 10:31am
Meh... HDMI as far as I am concerned is still missing some key functionality. If I have a media center PC and I use HDMI to connect my HDTV to that PC I can not tell the monitor to "go to sleep" like I can with DVI. When you do that it messes up HDCP. Thats 100% failure IMO. Both DVI and Displayport can do this.
Hey.That_Dude
January 09, 2012 at 8:01pm
Alright! 19 pins and maxing out at ~20Gbps for a short run... OR 2 8pin Cat 6a (16 pins) pushing (gasp) ~20Gpbs both ways for runs up to 100m (and shorter cables will likely push more).
That's always been the thing that I never understood. Why can't they get faster (and thus carry more data)?
yammerpickle2
January 09, 2012 at 6:07pm
HDMI and its fees just does not seem like a very good value. I’d rather have Thunderbolt if I have to pay a license fee.
streetking
January 09, 2012 at 2:48pm
sea salt and vinegar is the best flavor of potato chips ever invented
bling581
January 09, 2012 at 10:46am
Just don't buy HDMI cables in a brick and mortar store, because I can pretty much guarantee you're paying way too much.
When I didn't know any better I bought my first one in a store to go with my new TV and it was like $60. Later when I purchased my Roku from Amazon I decided to pick up the cable from them too and couldn't believe how cheap they were. I picked up a 6 ft. brand name cable for $8. That same week I was looking through Best Buy's weekly sales flyer and saw the exact same length and brand name cable on sale for $55!
TechLarry
January 09, 2012 at 8:23am
The only problem with HDMI is that word. "License".
I want to see an HDMI transmitter system. A box I can connect to my Living Room Entertainment system, and have it transmit full HD/5.1 quality to other TV's around the house that have a receiver box plugged into them.
And it can't cost ridiculous $$$ either. That's partly where the "License" thing come in.
Supall
January 09, 2012 at 7:49am
Other than the fact that video quality is better on HDMI, I cannot stress how wonderful it is to NOT have to screw anything in to get great quality.
Shalbatana
January 09, 2012 at 7:48am
That's all well and good, but...
I have a setup where I can route the cable box DVR composite output signal to a switch, then on to the TV in my kitchen (or the kitchen can watch regular tv with no box if the switch is flipped the other way). That way I can watch my recorded shows while I do the dishes or cook. It annoys me no end that now that I have an HDTV in the living room (where the box is) that I have to unplug the HDMI cable in order for the box to remove the "unauthorized signal" message.
I'm still only watching my show on one tv at a time, I'm not recording it to DVD or Bluray, and I'm only sending standard def. So why is this "illegal"? The state of my HDMI cable (or lack thereof) should neither impact nor determine the state of a composite signal on a legal path.
HDMI is great, but it's not perfect, and not suprisingly it's the damn "copy protection" that's messing things up.
TechLarry
January 09, 2012 at 8:26am
Shal,
There are $5 RF Modulation boxes on Amazon you can use for this without a switch needed. Just plug an extra SVHS and audio output to the box, then the RF output to a splitter that feeds all your other TV's.
I've been doing this for 10 years now. It's not HD, of course, and only Stereo, but for a bedroom, office or Kitchen TV it's great. HD comes out in wide screen, and just hit the zoom button on the remote TV and it fills the screen perfectly like HD (but at non-HD resolution.
As I posted earlier, I'm waitign for an affordable HDMI transmitting system. That would be the cats meow.
Shalbatana
January 10, 2012 at 8:31am
Thanks Larry, I actually have one of thos boxes in my bedroom. It's doing the exact opposite and letting me use my cheapo dvd player on a TV that doesn't have the proper input. Only I bought mine at radio shack at a time when they cost a few bucks more to begin with. (The price I pay for early adoption).
In all fairness, I shouldn't blame HDMI for my issue. I'm sure the cable box itself is doing the "blocking". It's just HDMI that's doing the detecting.
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