Anyone who followed my last couple posts about my scAVenger hunt on the floor may be curious to know how things turned out. Well we invited quite a few folks to come and try out their Cat5 based extenders on the show floor. Who we invited and what they said: Atlona — Wanted to come, but […]

FSR is going to use InfoComm next month to launch new compact table boxes for conference and classrooms, an iPad table mount aimed at digital signage applications and very cool and very thin HDMI cables. Power Coaster Mini Table Box Series FSR’s new so-called Power Coaster mini table boxes are designed for meeting, conference and […]

Extron is now shipping its HFX 100 HDMI Fiber Optic Extender, a transmitter and receiver set for long distance transmission of HDMI video and embedded audio signals over one fiber optic cable. It extends HDCP-compliant HDMI signals over amultimode fiber at lengths up to 300 meters (984 feet). This compact extender uses all-digital technology to deliver perfect pixel-for-pixel transmission of images up to1920x1200, including HDTV 1080p/60. The HFX 100 […]

Roku has announced a unique way to add streaming movies and TV shows to any HDTV with a spare HDMI port. Called the Roku Start Stick, it’s a Flash- or USB-style stick that has built-in Wi-Fi, plus a processor, memory and software that allows you to stream content (such as Netflix) from Roku’s partners to […]

HDMI-enabled mobile phone shipments grew to over 1 million in 2010, In-Stat reports. This growth is partly thanks to the increase in phones able to capture 720p HD video. However HDMI must convince more phone vendors and OEMs to include the additional port in their devices — HDMI faces competition from new interfaces like Mobile […]

The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) has published a new whitepaper on the topic of HDMI titled HDMI Design and Initialization Sequence. The document discusses the basic design of HDMI devices, the HDMI initialization sequence, and features in the HDMI 1.4a specification. HDMI Design and Initialization Sequence is the second in CEDIA’s series […]

Crestron launched a new line of HDMI over STP (shielded twisted pair) adapters. Dubbed the HD-EXT, they send HDMI signals over a single STP wire up to 330 feet – and according to Crestron, it’s uncompressed without loss of signal quality (but you do have to use their DM 8G wire). Two HD-EXT models – […]

AMD, Dell, Intel Corporation, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display today announced intentions to accelerate adoption of scalable and lower power digital interfaces such as DisplayPort and High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) into the PC. Intel and AMD expect that analog display outputs such as Video Graphics Array (VGA) and the low voltage differential […]

Just before the end of the year, Extron told rAVe the company had started shipping its DXP HDMI Series and DXP DVI Pro Series matrix switchers. Both HDMI 1.3-compatible matrix switchers support HDTV 1080p/60 and PC resolutions up to 1920×1200. HDCP compliant, both series allow for simultaneous distribution of protected content to one or more […]

Dukane isn’t at the level of Sanyo or NEC in the projector world, but many counted Dukane down and out in the projector market just a few years ago. Their latest offering is a WXGA (1280×800) model dubbed the 8924HW-RJ and it’s spec’d at 3000 lumens, with a 5000-hour lamp and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. […]

CEDIA knows that HDMI is a huge issue for ESCs. Learn how to handle HDMI with the various offerings available at CEDIA EXPO. HDMI Troubleshooting will help attendees identify and resolve common HDMI/HDCP failures. For even more discussion on HDMI, join us for The HDMI Hot Seat panel. Attendees will learn how to better integrate […]

Extron is now shipping the SW HDMI LC two and four input switchers. These switchers support HDMI 1.3 specification features, including data rates up to 6.75 Gbps, Deep Color, Lip Sync, and HD lossless audio formats. HDCP compliance ensures interoperability with other HDCP-compliant devices. The switchers support all HDTV rates including 1080p/60 with 12-bit Deep […]

The ProAV Market finally has a truly 100 percent HDCP key compliant HDMI matrix switcher! And, here’s a link to it on Extron’s website: http://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=dxphdmi

Last week, Extron announced the immediate availability of HDCP-compliant HDMI matrix boards for the SMX System MultiMatrix, Extron’s modular, field-configurable matrix switching platform. Available in I/O sizes from 4×4 to 8×8, the new SMX HDMI matrix boards are HDMI 1.3 compatible and have been designed with a number of key, intelligent technologies for HomeAV integration, […]

Crestron told rAVe this week that it has started to ship, in limited quantities, their DM-TX-400-3G — a wall plate transmitter for their DigitalMedia line that includes HDMI, VGA, Audio, control and USB via DigitalMedia cable up to 450’ away.  Crestron says the DM system is designed to provide an upgrade path from analog to […]

Leaders from CEDIA and HDMI Licensing, LLC have agreed to work together to clarify and simplify HDMI integration through a series of educational training seminars aimed at increasing CEDIA members’ knowledge of HDMI technology, its capabilities, and applications. CEDIA recently surveyed its membership to get a better perspective on the issues and concerns members have […]

Crestron announced the release of the HD-TX3-F and HD-RX3-F transmitter/receiver pair that Crestron says provides uncompressed HDMI, analog audio, Ethernet, USB HID and control signals up to 1000 feet over single multimode fiber. Crestron also says the pair supports HDMI 1.3a with Deep Color and 7.1 channel lossless audio, manages EDID and HDCP, handles resolutions […]

BTX Technologies claims to have what they call “the industry’s first field-terminatable HDMI cable-mount male connector.” And yes, they are claiming rights to the word “terminatable” to help describe the device that they say allows installers to create custom length HDMI assemblies of up to 39 feet at resolutions of 1080p with 12-bit deep color. […]

Black Box debuted the PG-DIG – an HDMI and DVI Pattern Generator last week.  According to Black Box, the PG-DIG is capable of generating resolutions up to 1920×1200, includes 34 test patterns and outputs HDMI 1.0, 1.2 and 1.3 (but not 1.4).  It’s a hand-held generator that is battery operated (eight hours of operation are […]

HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) specification, announced last week, the release of HDMI Specification Version 1.4a – featuring key enhancements for 3D applications including the addition of mandatory 3D formats for broadcast content as well as the addition of the 3D format referred to as Top-and-Bottom. The […]

HDMI Licensing has made the 3D portion of the HDMI Specification Version 1.4 available for public download on the HDMI Web site. This document provides public access to the 3D portion of version 1.4 of the HDMI Specification for organizations that require access to this portion of the Specification but have not executed an HDMI […]

Sanus has added 2.5-, 5- and 10-foot long, pivoting HDMI cables to its Sanus Elements product offering, dubbed the Sanus Elements ELM402-G1, ELM405-G1 and ELM410-G1, respectively. Pivoting HDMI Cables, although seemingly a simple concept for installers, are actually hard to find and this one actually pivots a full 180 degrees, making it easy to connect […]

The first Sherwood receiver with HDMI 1.4 capability, the 7.1 channel RD-7505 provides support for 3D and includes a built-in HDMI repeater for handling HDMI inputs with long cable runs. It includes Dolby TruHD and DTS-HD Master Audio processing as well as plain old Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II and DTS 96/24. The $349 […]

Wireworld just debuted a $1000 HDMI cable.  There’s no better way to describe this other than simply letting you read the superlatives they used to describe this $1K wire: “The Platinum Starlight HDMI cable features molded carbon fiber connectors, the company’s unique new 24-conductor DNA Helix design with solid silver conductors, and high-speed/high-bandwidth capabilities to […]

HDMI Licensing, LLC released updated Adopted Trademark and Logo Guidelines this month that are aimed to simplify trade marking, but remind us of the ever-perplexing color-coding “terror alert” system we see at airports. The so-called HDMI Guidelines include specific new requirements for manufacturers, distributors, retailers (that’s some of you!), and installers (that’s the rest of […]

More than 394 million HDMI-enabled devices will ship in 2009, creating an installed base of 1 billion devices, says In-Stat. But the successful HDMI standard is about to be upgraded to Version 1.4. The HDMI spec is chasing added functionality by consumer electronics and PC makers. Says Steve Venuti, president of HDMI Licensing LLC, “The […]

HDMI is already the champ when it comes to consumer (and even Pro) electronics, and now the technology gets a boost with the release of a major enhancement to the spec. It was signed off by the HDMI founder companies (Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Royal Philips Electronics, Silicon Image, Inc., Sony […]