The HDMI Advantage

When you connect with HDMI technology, you’re getting the utmost in simplicity, performance, and system intelligence.

Simplicity

• HDMI transmits all types of audio and video through a single digital link, eliminating "cable clutter" by replacing as many as eleven older cables
• HDMI makes it ultra-easy to install or upgrade to an all-digital home entertainment system.
• HDMI makes it simple to hook up other devices to your home theater system. PCs, gaming consoles, and video cameras can all be connected with the same one-plug convenience.
• All HDMI versions are backward-compatible with previous versions.

Performance

• All-digital. No conversion or compression needed
• Enormous bandwidth capacity – up to 10.2 gigabits per second, more than twice the bandwidth needed to transmit a 1080p signal, such as the output from a Blu-ray Disc player.
  • Better looking movies
  • Faster gaming
  • Richer audio
• Ready for future emerging technologies
  • Higher resolutions, like 1440p or Quad HD
  • Faster refresh rates, like 120Hz
  • Deep Color, taking the HDTV palette from millions to trillions of colors.

Intelligence

• HDMI is a "smart" two-way connection that allows devices to communicate and interact with each other to dramatically improve your home theater experience.
• Devices connected with HDMI have the ability to scan each other’s capabilities and automatically configure certain settings. An HDTV and a DVD player, for instance, can auto-negotiate settings like resolution and aspect ratio to correctly match the format of the incoming content to the highest capabilities of the TV.
• Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is another intelligent HDMI feature set that provides for integrated, "one-touch" commands across multiple linked components. When enabled by the manufacturer, CEC allows system-wide behaviors like one-touch play or one-touch record, where pressing a single button on a remote launches a series of coordinated commands.