HDMI 1.3 Doubles Bandwidth, Adds Deep Color

By Geoff Duncan
June 22, 2006

The companies behind HDMI technology have released the HDMI 1.3 specification, which doubles bandwidth, expands color capability, and adds technology like "lip synching."

The seven companies which founded the HDMI Licensing group—Hitachi, Matsushita, Sony, Silicon Image, Thomson, Royal Philips, and Toshiba—have released the specifications for HDMI 1.3, doubling the bandwidth and adding new features like support for Deep Color technology and new audio formats, plus automatic "lip synching" to keep audio and video tracks lined up. Products implementing HDMI 1.3 will be backward compatible with existing HDMI products.

"The dramatic increase in maximum speed achieved in HDMI 1.3 willenable HDMI to stay far ahead of the bandwidth demands of future highdefinition source and display devices," said Leslie Chard, president ofHDMI Licensing, LLC. "As the de facto standard digital interface for thehigh definition and consumer electronics markets, HDMI is implementing themost innovative technologies today to fulfill the ...

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