When you connect with HDMI technology, you’re getting the utmost in simplicity, performance, and system intelligence.
Simplicity
HDMI transmits all types of audio and video through a single digital link, eliminating "cable clutter" by replacing as many as eleven older cables
HDMI makes it ultra-easy to install or upgrade to an all-digital home entertainment system.
HDMI makes it simple to hook up other devices to your home theater system. PCs, gaming consoles, and video cameras can all be connected with the same one-plug convenience.
All HDMI versions are backward-compatible with previous versions.
Performance
All-digital. No conversion or compression needed
Enormous bandwidth capacity – up to 10.2 gigabits per second, more than twice the bandwidth needed to transmit a 1080p signal, such as the output from a Blu-ray Disc player. Better looking movies
Faster gaming
Richer audio
Ready for future emerging technologies Higher resolutions, like 1440p or Quad HD
Faster refresh rates, like 120Hz
Deep Color, taking the HDTV palette from millions to trillions of colors.
Intelligence
HDMI is a "smart" two-way connection that allows devices to communicate and interact with each other to dramatically improve your home theater experience.
Devices connected with HDMI have the ability to scan each other’s capabilities and automatically configure certain settings. An HDTV and a DVD player, for instance, can auto-negotiate settings like resolution and aspect ratio to correctly match the format of the incoming content to the highest capabilities of the TV.
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is another intelligent HDMI feature set that provides for integrated, "one-touch" commands across multiple linked components. When enabled by the manufacturer, CEC allows system-wide behaviors like one-touch play or one-touch record, where pressing a single button on a remote launches a series of coordinated commands
