HDMI is taking over from DVI
THE USE OF High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connectors is becoming increasingly popular and HDMI is gradually taking over from Digital Visual Interface (DVI), according to analyst firm In-Stat.
Although particularly popular in consumer electronic devices, HDMI connections are starting to appear increasingly in PCs as well, particularly in notebooks.
According to In-Stat's 'DVI & HDMI 2009: DVI Declines Gradually While HDMI Rises Sharply' report. HDMI doubled its penetration in the PC market from 6.1 per cent in 2007 to 12.3 per cent in 2008, and its use has also grown by 76 per cent in mobile devices over the same period.
This trend is expected to continue, with HDMI-enabled product shipments predicted to grow at an annual rate of 20.3 per cent through 2013.
"HDMI's success continues to be led by the consumer electronics (CE) segment," says Brian O'Rourke, an analyst at In-Stat.
"HDMI has been adopted nearly universally in digital televisions, which account for the single largest HDMI application. The next big HDMI growth area is in portable CE devices, including digital camcorders, digital still cameras and portable media players. Vendors hope to drive adoption of HDMI into mobile phones, where the more than one billion annual shipments are a tempting target."
The research also reveals that this growing adoption ties into the gradual decline of the use of DVI, predicting that DVI-enabled product shipments will decrease at an annual rate of 8.1 per cent through to 2013.
The success of HDMI can be attributed to its smaller and simpler form factor and its ability to carry audio signals as well as high definition video. Content providers will also be pleased as HDMI signals also conform to the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) specification, enabling them to add another link in the DRM lock down chain.
The research concludes that the adoption of HDMI will be further enhanced by the development of smaller connectors such as mini-HDMI and micro-HDMI to make the standard more attractive to mobile device makers. µ
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So how does DisplayPort fits in all this?
I have a new monitor without HDMI but with DisplayPort and DVI.
On a recent bought Dell Laptop there was HDMI and DisplayPort.
Installing AV systems at work myself and other coworkers have had so many problems with TV's and HDMI not being compatible. We end up falling back on component cables way too often. Hopefully this will be worked out. I don't know of any problems like this with VGA/DVI/Component.
DisplayPort doesn't fit into this at all, unless you push it really *really* hard into the socket :s
"The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
Most HDMI problems are caused by DRM. Who'd have guessed?
I remind you that DVI HAS support for HDCP, if it didn't, you couldn't play Blu-ray content on your regular monitor.
What does exist are monitors that has DVI ports and aren't HDCP enabled...
Displayport is the "open source" version of HDMI, as the latter is property of Sony, and to have HDMI on your hardware you got to pay royalties. I'm looking forward for DP, but it's still slow.
LOL nice one Matt...
I think Display Port may become a PC standart, if it keep growing. Just like RCA Component had became a TV standart and VGA a PC an almost exclusivity, I think we are going to see for some years to come PCs with HDMI AND Display Port, while TV's are faded to HDMI for many years to come.
HDMI generally has some "overscan" to the image where Displayport and DVI-D do not.
On top of that, with every HDMI port comes a licensing fee for the HDMI spec which in turn inflates the cost of the CE device. Displayport and DVI do not have this licensing fee as they are VESA standards and on top of that, these free standards do HDCP just fine.
Dump HDMI please.
HDMI has bit of understatement in Audio. It just ainn't that LOUD. How Can Kids Play Old SEX Pistols, Found in Attic trunk, Without 100 db? How Can MC5 Rule or Velvet Underground Scream about Sweet Jane. well Cann't. NO real theatre Ability in 1.3a,b,c gyps um. In Fact Unless Monitor is less than year Old & then If ie, probably Breaks Down.
2.0 Was One of Mike, RIP(deFacto), last relevalations before going Bangalore & Living in Laundry in India Spying On Intel. Told Us NO 2.0 be released & thats been case. HOWEVER.
HDMI 1.4 Is Now On Horizon & has DRM for HDMI. Not much is revealed except its acoming, Martha. Its acoming Soon to Stores Near YOU.
drashek
I much prefer DVI to HDMI simply because DVI is a much more robust connector and I don't like the thought of a big heavy multi core HDMI cable pulling on the connector.
If you tripped over a HDMI cable while it was pluged in, you'd end up ripping the socket off the motherboard/graphics card unlike DVI, which has screws.
DVI uses exacly the same electronic signals as HDMI so theres no reason why DVI couldn't do audio. Why do you think most motherboards/graphics cards come with DVI/HDMI adaptors.
I wouldn't want to transmit audio via HDMI anyway. I'd do it properly and connect the audio to my AV amp via SP/DIF or analogue.
If I tripped over my cable I would much rather it get unplugged than yank my entire computer on the floor, snap the connector off the board or stretch and damage the cable. :/
I Have a 30 inch monitor and that requires a dual link DVI cable to drive it at 2560 x 1600.
I didn't think I could do with HDMI
Well I switched from DVI to HDMI.
I got a BenQ monitor it has DVI & HDMI connectors. My graphics card though has only 2 DVI outputs.
Funny thing just experimenting one afternoon I put the video through those DVI-HDMI adapters & I swear the picture quality is way sharper. Why I don't know!
Maybe its the monitor.
Still HDMI is pretty neat & No it's not bloated with DRM unless you run/use DRM'ed stuff.
It works perfectly fine.
DisplayPort I think will have a while to catch up most monitors don't have DisplayPorts inputs but have HDMI one's.
HDMI cables are also pretty cheap now since most TV's use it as well.
HDMI generally has some "overscan" to the image where Displayport and DVI-D do not.
- This is almost always switchable on sets I've encountered. On my cheap LG for example, if you output the native resolution (1360*768) it defaults to a monitor, if the resoluton is anything else, the source selection up/down offers a left/right to toggle between "PC" and "TV" modes. This also works if the source is a 1080i/p bluray player.
There is no need for overscan in the digital TV era. In fact since most electricity supplies have been stable for half a century, then there has been little need for overscan full stop.
Ironically, I've found the cheaper mainstream sets from the likes of LG and Samsumg to be much safer bets compatibilitywise than Panasonic and Sony.
vga on my 8 year old pc will do me just fine until then.
It's great. I never thought a simple tv cable could be such great value. Thanks again Sony!
Are Sony the new Apple? Are Sony taking over extortionately high prices for standard produced goods as a means of making money that Apple have been so good at?
Also, can another PCWorld salesman please tell me how the more expensive gold plater cable is better, even thought its a digital signal?