Wednesday, September 4, 2013

HDMI 2.0 future-proofs your home theater for 4K video and 32-channel audio


Slowly but surely, the world of 4K is opening up to consumers and creative professionals. And while 1080p content obviously won't be going anywhere for years, it's the job of the HDMI Forum (which oversees development of the all-important home theater standard) to anticipate and be ready for a shift to ultra high-resolution content. With that in mind, today the group announced the finalized HDMI 2.0 specification. Most people will never notice a difference between 2.0 and the previous 1.4 specification introduced in 2009 — at least not yet. But there are some key upgrades when it comes to 4K support.


With HDMI 2.0, overall bandwidth has been kicked up to 18Gbps, which makes it possible to display 4K content at 60 frames per second....


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/4/4693674/hdmi-2-0-specification-supports-60fps-4k-video-32-channel-audio

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