HDMI Adapters, Cords And Standards
Posted By Shaweena del Mogreo on June 22, 2010
The founders of High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) are Hitachi, Philips, Sony, Silicon Image, RCA, Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial who started the development of HDMI in 2002.
They had something else in mind. They wanted an AV connector that was compatible with DVI. HD TVs at the time used the CEA-861-B video standard. The aim was to improve DVI-HDTV. This would be done by the use of a smaller connector, thereby adding an improvement in audio and electronics control functions.
HDMI, consists of an audio/video interface, used for sending digital data in its uncompressed form. HDMI is the digital means of transmitting data as an alternative to consumer analog standards like composite video, radio frequency, S-Video, coaxial cable, component video, or VGA.
Digital Audio and Digital Video interfaced by HDMI are connected to compatible digital audio and video devices such as digital Monitors and digital Televisions.
These digital TVs and Monitors can be connected to further devices such as ACHD Camcorders, DVD players, AV Receivers, Set-top Boxes, Playstation3 , the Xbox 360 Video machines, Cameras, and Personal Computers.
A Personal Computer or Television in any format supports HDMI with the use of one cable. With the advantage of the 8 digital audio channel reception, a user, with one remote control, can operate all of these devices: Stereo Amplifier, Television, Personal Computer, DVD player, Video Machine, Playstations and Cameras. All can be programmed into one remote control as the format DVI is compatible with HDMI. When a DVI/HDMI adapter is being used this does not affect the quality of the video or audio.
HDMI sends video and audio streams through as uncompressed streams. HDMI is not reliant on the television standards in use by the device, which are ATSC and DVG, who use compressed MPEG video streams. These MPEG compressed streams are decoded and output as uncompressed streams by HDMI.
In 2003, European market started labeling their Televisions as HD, when almost 900 Consumer Electronics companies and Personal Computer companies started using the HDMI specification in their products. Motion Picture companies like Universal, Disney, Warner Bros and Fox all support HDMI.
In 2008 In-Stat estimated that almost 400 million sales of HDMI devices would take place in 2009, when LLC for HDMI proclaimed that all TVs that were digital would come out with at least one input that was HDMI by the end of 2009.
HDMI has won a few awards, one being the Technical Excellence Award, given by PC Magazine. This was for the category of Home Theater in 2008.
PC Magazine, in 2008 awarded a Technical Excellence Award in the Home Theater category for an innovation that has changed the world to the CEC portion of the HDMI specification. The development of HDMI also received an award given to 10 companies, the Technology and Engineering Emmy Award. This was given by the National Academy of Television and Arts Sciences.
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