Wednesday, 26 December 2012

HDMI

HDMI is the High-definition multimedia interface, designed as a digital replacement for analog video standards. Production of consumer products using HDMI started in late 2003. The companies that founded HDMI were Matsushita, Hitachi, Sony, amongst others.

The latest version of the spec is HDMI 1.3. It has support for Deep Color (48 bit vs. the "normal" 24 bit). "Normal" 24 bit color means 16.7 million colors, but 48 bit color means 281 trillion colors.

HDMI together with DVI use TMDS (Transition-minimized differential signaling), a technology for high-speed serial data transmission. TMDS was developed by Californian company Silicon Image, which trades on NASDAQ.

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