HDMI is announcing today a new HDMI standard. They didn't have a version number for me when I talked to them yesterday, but some of the new features are as follows:
- Networking
- Consolidation of HD video, HD audio and now high speed data with the addition of Ethernet in the HDMI cable
- Audio Return Channel
- Elimination of a S/PDIF cable by allowing a TV to send audio streams upstream to an A/V receiver for processing and playback over the HDMI cable
- Performance
- 4kx2k and 3D are high performance features be met by increasing the uppper limit of the HDMI link
- HD in your Car
- New connector specification for the auto industry as worlds' largest auto makers move to digital HD video and audio for 21st century cars with HDMI
- Smaller connector
- New smaller 19-pin connector