Are you curious about HDMI 1.3? Not sure what it’s all about? Well check out this excellent blog posting over at CNET’s Crave gadget blog. They attended a press event on Monday held by HDMI Licensing LLC which  lauded the benefits of HDMI 1.3. Some of the key new features of HDMI 1.3 include:

  • Twice the bandwidth of 1.3 (10.2 Gbps vs 4.95 Gbps)
  • Can carry 10, 12 or even 16 bit color depths (1.2 can carry 8 bit color depths). As Crave points out - no current consumer source or display can handle 10 bit or higher anyhow
  • Wider Color Gamut - compatible devices will have a wider range of colors than ever before
  • Dolby and DTS lossless audio formats
  • Lip-sync compensation

So what devices support the 1.3 spec you might wonder? Right now there are three 1.3 compatible devices - the PS3, Toshiba HD-XA2 HD DVD player, and the Epson PowerLite Pro Cinema 1080 projector (EPM-TW1000). Oh.. one more thing to remember. Just because you have a 1.3 device does not mean you automatically can do the features listed above. The spec just says these things are possible as a result of going to HDMI 1.3.

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