HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced

jones_supa writes with news that HDMI 2.0 is out. From Engadget "The folks at HDMI Licensing are announcing HDMI 2.0 officially. Arriving just in time for the wide rollout of a new generation of Ultra HDTVs, it adds a few key capabilities to the standard. With a bandwidth capacity of up to 18Gbps, HDMI 2.0 has the ability to carry 3,840 x 2,160 resolution video at 60fps. It also has support for up to 32 audio channels, 'dynamic auto lipsync' and additional CEC extensions. The physical cables and connectors remain unchanged." Just like HDMI 1.4, the specification is only available to HDMI Forum members.

Physical cables the same?

[MrDoh!]

!So we won't see a markup in price on 2.0 cables then. If only.

No Mention

[Anonymous Coward]

The summary doesn't say...

Does HDMI 2.0 support new, improved, and even more delicious Digitally Restricted Media? Seems that it must.

Re:New feature

[wonkey_monkey]

HDCP!=HDMI

Re:No Mention

[gstoddart]

my blu rays play just fine on my TV. what exactly am i missing?

The opportunity to buy a whole new TV which runs at a higher resolution.

Think of it as the companies who make a/v equipment trying to make sure you replace all of your stuff every 2 years to keep up with the latest market trends.

But, I'm with you, I don't see myself needing to get even higher resolution any time soon.

Still limited to 60Hz?

[sinij]

Still limited to 60Hz? Disappointing and annoying.

Re:Physical cables the same?

[Anonymous Coward]

Something something "Ready" usually isn't. Not going to pay a premium to be a beta test. Let the sheep work out the bugs first.
Start saving money now for the properly released product when the prices start dropping.

Re:The real question

[delt0r]

Well when i was working on RF stuff, there was a lot of silver and gold of course. Skin effect and all and good connections were important to avoid reflections. Since a HDMI cable is working as a high frequency broad band cable. I can see cheap cables not working. Reflection on incorrectly or poorly terminated sockets could really stuff things up. Digital in a computer is far from 1 or 0 at these kind of bit rates. Signal eyes from these can be .. unpleasant. Error codes are used for a reason.

Of course i don't buy the expensive cables either. But we are not talking about "warm sound from correctly polarized oxygen free isotopically pure" monster cables.