• ‘Fake’ HDMI 2.1: The standard that isn’t

    Posted on January 24, 2022 at 02:43 CST by • Comment in the Forums

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    By Brian Livingston

    If you’re interested in buying new monitors for your business or home that support the latest HDMI 2.1 standard — such as many displays that were demonstrated at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) earlier this month — you may be surprised to learn that HDMI 2.1–certified monitors may not necessarily support the enhanced features that have been heavily promoted.

    The shocking truth is that the HDMI Licensing Administrator (HDMI LA) — an organization in San Jose, California, that has authority over the trademarked term HDMI — is certifying as “HDMI LA compliant” monitors that support as few as one of the at least seven new features that HDMI 2.1 offers over 2.0.

    Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.04.0 (2022-01-24).

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