HDMI 1.3 graphics spec is ready to go

OH MY, HOW SHORTSIGHTED people can be. I've been listening to hordes of journos just bombing graphics card manufacturers with requests for HDMI on graphic cards. However, the thing that folks often forget is the fact that it was and is the final spec graphic that manufacturers were waiting for.

The HMDI consortium finally approved the 1.3 spec, which adds a lot of new features. The most notable is the presence of a mini-HDMI connector, which won't consume much space on the backplate of graphics cards.

Besides the mini-connector, changes include raising the interface bandwidth from 618MB/s to 1.27 GB/s. This was done by raising the single-link speed from 165MHz all the way to 340MHz. This also allowed support for the famous "billions of colours" - or to avoid marketing babble, we're talking about support for 30-bit, 36-bit and 48-bit RGB or YcbCr colour depths. As you probably know, previous spec allowed 24-bit colour depth.

Doubled bandwidth allowed the inclusion of new audio formats, the "lossless" Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio formats - but Lip Sync marchitecture is added as well. Lip Sync can be described as an algorithm that synchronizes the audio and video in far bigger precision than in previous specs.

More about this, now finally ready spec can be found in a typical Spinola release, available by clicking on our complimentary L'INQ, below. µ

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And so it goes