Sunday, 23 November 2008

What is HDMI? What is HDCP?

HDMI which stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface is an alternative to SCART (known as Péritel in France, trapezium shaped connector) and S-Video (analog video signal that carries the signal as two signals, luminance and color, round connector), for transmitted uncompressed digital streams.

HDMI connects digital AV sources to compatible output devices (e.g. television screens, computer screens), it's pure digital, no analog whatsoever. HDMI 1.0 was published in December 2002.

HDCP is the copy-protection scheme for HDMI initiated by Intel and Silicon Image.

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