hdmi 1.4

Dealzmodo: Kogan 3 Metre HDMI 1.4 Cables For $9

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The HDMI cable is the de facto connecting standard for HD gear, and now Kogan’s selling 3 metre HDMI 1.4 cables for $9 plus shipping. Bargain!

February 23, 2010
Entertainment

How The PS3 Will Playback 3D Blu-ray Without HDMI 1.4

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Back in January, Sony announced that the PS3 would support 3D Blu-ray movie playback. But at the same time, it was announced that in order to get 3D from your Blu-ray player to your TV, you’d need HDMI 1.4 to connect them. Considering how you can’t exactly upgrade a physical port with firmware, the two statements seemed to be slightly at odds with eachother. Turns out there’s a loophole…

February 19, 2010
Entertainment

Sony’s First 3D-Capable Receiver, The STR-DN1010, Costs $US500

Bad news for both you and 3D. Your fancy receivers can’t pass 3D signals because they aren’t equipped with HDMI 1.4. And on top of that, even more bad news: only one of Sony’s four new receivers supports 3D.

February 6, 2010

3D HDMI 1.4 Spec Available For Public Download

You don’t need to be a big shot licensee to develop an HDMI 1.4-compatible 3D product anymore. The powers that be have released the spec for public download, which I assume means that Chinese OEMs everywhere are going nuts at the moment. [HDMI via Engadget]

January 20, 2010

DisplayPort 1.2 Standard Makes HDMI Look Positively Analogue

The Video Electronics Standards Association has codified the standard for the next version of DisplayPort, and the small, Apple-loving HDMI competitor, and it just got a lot more interesting. Like, multiple-monitors-on-one-plug interesting.

August 19, 2009

HDMI 1.4 Rocks For Six Reasons, Sucks For Four More

The new HDMI standard — 1.4 to be precise — is pretty excellent, since it has an integrated Ethernet channel, 1080p 3D support and oh yeah, delicious 4K resolution images. But, like we said before, you need all-new everything for it.

August 6, 2009

First HDMI 1.4 Cable Set To Live A Lonely, Disconnected Life

How awful it must feel to be a fancy new cable with nothing to plug into. Such is the plight of the sad NXG 20-meter HDMI 1.4 cable, whose 3D/2160p/Ethernet talents will simply go unnoticed, at least this year.

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