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High Definition Standard Gets Major Upgrade
It’s important to you because the
future of HDTV and HDMI are joined at the hip so make sure whatever flat-screen
you are buying has at least one of these – two would be better though.
It was
created by Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson and Toshiba. In 2006, market
researcher Instat predicts that 60 million devices featuring HDMI will ship.
HDMI 1.3 promises double the bandwidth of existing HDMI interfaces and will
support billions of colours for HDTVs. It's also going to be incorporated in the forthcoming PlayStation 3 console. Some of the key improvements – but not
all - include:
- Higher speed: HDMI 1.3 increases its single-link
bandwidth from 165MHz (4.95 gigabits per second) to 340 MHz (10.2Gbps) to
support the demands of future high definition display devices, such as higher
resolutions, Deep Color and high frame rates. In addition, built into the HDMI
1.3 specification is the technical foundation that will let future versions of
HDMI reach significantly higher speeds.
- Deep color: HDMI 1.3 supports 30-bit, 36-bit and
48-bit (RGB or YCbCr) color depths, up from the 24-bit depths in previous
(current) versions of the HDMI specification.
- Lets HDTVs and other displays go from millions of
colour to billions of colours
- Eliminates on-screen color banding, for smooth tonal
transitions and subtle gradations between colors
- New lossless audio formats: In addition to HDMI’s
current ability to support high-bandwidth uncompressed digital audio and
currently-available compressed formats (such as Dolby Digital and DTS), HDMI
1.3 adds additional support for new, lossless compressed digital audio formats
Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
- Enables increased contrast ratio
How do you tell the differance ?
Posted by: Dee | June 29, 2006 10:01 PM
Hi, can you please me the differace, and how can you tell if the upto date set- top box is included with the equipment package.
Many thanks Barry Wilson
Posted by: Barry Wilson | June 30, 2006 5:02 PM
Does the High Definition HD VMD Player have HDMI? If all these new TVs and DVD Players are using HDMI is it not important that all AV products we buy in the marketplace should have HDMI - perhpas somebody should invent a device that could be used to convert old AV systems into HDMI
Posted by: sai | August 30, 2007 5:00 AM