Presented by HDMI, L.L.C. May, 2005 HDMI Retail Training Program Part II: Additional Information HDMI – The Standard for Connecting HDTV

Consumer Benefits All Digital Audio & Video Quality –Best reproduction – direct from the source material Reduced Wiring Complexity –A single HDMI cable replaces up to 11 analog cables Advanced Control –Entire home theater controlled from a single remote Automatic Format Adjustment –TV & AV Receivers can adjust without consumer intervention PC Compatibility –Devices can playback & display PC media

& Industry Standards Backwards compatible with DVI and DVI- HDTV Uses VESA’s DDC & EDID mechanisms EIA/CEA-861B created to accommodate HDMI –Defines EDID & InfoFrame data structures –Defines HDMI video formats –Defines audio description values & tables Uses HDCP for content protection, allowing access to high-value programming

Video Formats HDMI is flexible enough to support absolutely any video format –HDMI explicitly specifies a complete list of DTV Video formats (defined in EIA/CEA-861B) to guarantee compatibility between sources and TVs All SDTV (NTSC/PAL), EDTV & HDTV formats –HDMI also allows any other video format All PC formats, including wide formats (common on Plasma monitors) Any other standard or vendor-defined format All current HDMI products support 480p, 1080i and 720p

Audio Formats HDMI can support absolutely any Audio format –Compressed formats : Dolby, DTS, etc –Uncompressed audio : Up to 8 channels, 192kHz, 24 bits –CD-quality (stereo 44-48kHz) audio is “base level” and is always available HDMI TVs typically only have 2 speakers but some new TVs support 5.1ch over HDMI All HDMI sources (DVDs and STBs) can drive 5.1 compressed formats and new DVD-Audio players can send 5.1 channel uncompressed

& HDCP HDCP: High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP originally adopted by industry for use with DVI –Modified by Digital Content Protection, LLC for HDMI (HDCP 1.1) Merely protects the choice of copy protection used by broadcasters and movie studios Uses authentication process –Blocks devices that have been compromised or hacked HDMI w/HDCP is approved as the only Protected Digital Output for CSS Licensed Content (DVD-Video disks) and for CPPM Licensed Content (DVD-Audio disks)

Compatibility with DVI HDMI has full video compatibility with DVI plus: –Small, consumer-friendly connector –YUV color space –Digital audio –CE control bus –Compliance testing 2 ways to connect HDMI and DVI: –Use an HDMI-to-DVI adapter (ex. Monster HDMI ADAP) –Use an HDMI-to-DVI cable Must use separate audio cables with DVI, since DVI only provides video signal

HDMI – The HD Connection Standard All Digital. Single Cable.