Owners Manual

HDMI 1.4 Features

• HDMI Ethernet Channel - Adds high-speed networking to an HDMI link, allowing users to take full advantage of their IP-enabled

devices without a separate Ethernet cable

• Audio Return Channel - Allows an HDMI-connected TV with a built-in tuner to send audio data "upstream" to a surround audio system,

eliminating the need for a separate audio cable

• 3D - Denes input/output protocols for major 3D video formats, paving the way for true 3D gaming and 3D home theater applications

• Content Type - Real-time signaling of content types between display and source devices, enabling a TV to optimize picture settings

based on content type

• Additional Color Spaces - Adds support for additional color models used in digital photography and computer graphics

• 4K Support - Enables video resolutions far beyond 1080p, supporting next-generation displays that will rival the Digital Cinema systems

used in many commercial movie theaters

• HDMI Micro Connector - A new, smaller connector for phones and other portable devices, supporting video resolutions up to 1080p

• Automotive Connection System - New cables and connectors for automotive video systems, designed to meet the unique demands of

the motoring environment while delivering true HD quality

Advantages of HDMI

• Quality HDMI transfers uncompressed digital audio and video for the highest, crispest image quality.

• Low -cost HDMI provides the quality and functionality of a digital interface while also supporting uncompressed video formats in a

simple, cost-eective manner

• Audio HDMI supports multiple audio formats from standard stereo to multichannel surround sound

• HDMI combines video and multichannel audio into a single cable, eliminating the cost, complexity, and confusion of multiple cables

currently used in A/V systems

• HDMI supports communication between the video source (such as a DVD player) and the DTV, enabling new functionality

USB Type-C

USB Type-C is a new, tiny physical connector. The connector itself can support various exciting new USB standard like USB 3.1 and USB

power delivery (USB PD).

Alternate Mode

USB Type-C is a new connector standard that's very small. It's about a third the size of an old USB Type-A plug. This is a single connector

standard that every device should be able to use. USB Type-C ports can support a variety of dierent protocols using “alternate modes,”

which allows you to have adapters that can output HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, or other types of connections from that single USB port

USB Power Delivery

The USB PD specication is also closely intertwined with USB Type-C. Currently, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices often use

a USB connection to charge. A USB 2.0 connection provides up to 2.5 watts of power — that'll charge your phone, but that's about it. A

laptop might require up to 60 watts, for example. The USB Power Delivery specication ups this power delivery to 100 watts. It's bi-

directional, so a device can either send or receive power. And this power can be transferred at the same time the device is transmitting

data across the connection.

This could spell the end of all those proprietary laptop charging cables, with everything charging via a standard USB connection. You could

charge your laptop from one of those portable battery packs you charge your smartphones and other portable devices from today. You

could plug your laptop into an external display connected to a power cable, and that external display would charge your laptop as you used

it as an external display — all via the one little USB Type-C connection. To use this, the device and the cable have to support USB Power

Delivery. Just having a USB Type-C connection doesn't necessarily mean they do.

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