 All right. Hi. Hi. Welcome to the HDMI LA booth at Computex 2023. We're excited to be back after a three-year absence. We'll be showcasing our latest and greatest around the HDMI 2.1 specification. As you can see behind me here, I got to introduce myself on an 8K camera and 8K display. This is Astro. It's got a little 8K camera right here. And people can just come to your booth and see themselves in 8K. Absolutely. So that's a professional camera used to produce 8K content for broadcast. They're from Japan. So you can come here and see yourself in glorious 8K detail, see every last whisker on your face, every last hair that's out of place. It's fantastic to see. So what's happened the last three years? Well, lots has happened in the last three years. So we've had a proliferation of HDMI 2.1 devices. 8K has started to gain momentum out there. We'll see here in a minute. We'll go through all our 8K demonstrations. Gaming, especially with around 4K, 120. VRR, ALLM, so variable refresh rate. OLED-C mode has really made it become gamer-friendly in displays and monitors. All right. So let's do a tour of your booth. Absolutely. So let me turn it over to Jeff and he will give us a demonstration in the description of all our demos here at Computex. Jeff? Hi, my name is Jeff Park. I'm the CTO of HDMI Licensing. And we're here at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. Here on our booth we're showing HDMI 2.1A 8K ecosystem. So one of the questions we always get is where's 8K and where's the equipment. The equipment is actually available now. So this TV, for example, is a Samsung 8K TV that's in production. That's already out in the market. Another example is this AVR. AVRs are typically what you use for surround sound and speaker system. They also have HDMI switching and input capability. So this allows you to get the highest quality audio available in the market today and process them. As well as the simple switches, be able to support 8K. This is a matrix switch. So what that means is it has two inputs and two outputs. So you can use any combination. You can do mirroring and other things to be able to have a lot of flexibility in terms of setup. Is HDMI able to transport the maximum audio quality? Yes. That can be imagined by anyone. Right. If you want the highest quality as possible, HDMI is there because it's uncompressed and it delivers the highest quality possible. And it will demonstrate that in a little bit. Additionally, this is for industrial applications. So you have a lot of HDMI ports. And this allows the use of high-quality, high-resolution 8K signage, which is important in industrial applications. So for example, you can have menus or other signage, airports or stadiums, other places. This is a source device that brings you that capability. Additionally, the Xbox skin console currently doesn't support 8K, but they announced it when they first released this. But right now they support 4K 120. So that's another way to use the HDMI bandwidth to be able to deliver very smooth, ultra-life-like video games running at 4K, but at 120 frames per second, which is more than double what you typically see in TV shows and movies. In the last two, three years, many gamers are very excited about 2.1, right? Right. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, PC games have been able to do 120, even 240 for years, but this is the first time game consoles and home users at a very affordable price can get high-quality 4K 120, which was, you know, unimaginable for consumers even a couple of years ago, right? So that allows it. And then finally here, we're also demonstrating is an industrial 8K camera. So you can actually get live footage. This is actually in production. Again, not a prototype. This is actually in use in stadiums, for example. Other industrial applications were allowed to have ultra-high-quality 8K video. This demo is showing 8K 60 HDR, live fed directly to the TV. So... And it's like... This is a Micro Four Thirds. Yeah, Micro Four Thirds. The best 8K camera in the world for Micro Four Thirds, maybe. Asher is always showing the next gen stuff, right? Yeah, so as you can see, whether you're looking at the TV image or me, there's no real difference in terms of clarity. And so this allows for things like very high-quality video, obviously. But, you know, they use it for inspections like bridges or buildings. Other things, they can use these ultra-high-speak high-quality cameras to see even the finest cracks on images because this is something you can't really see very quickly. But if you can record a video as you're passing by buildings and bridges, for example, then you can use AI to find cracks like this on buildings and other things and repair them. And so it significantly increases the capability of those kind of applications as well. It was, I want to say, life-changing to see myself in 8K like this because it's like the next gen, it's like the future. In the future, everybody's going to do 8K video conferencing, right? So we just need to have nice bandwidth and coding and everything, and that will be an application. Always going to be new compression, new technology, new encoding methods, new processors. So it's always improving. You know, even back then, even in the HD days, we were using MPEG-2 like transmitting in like 30 megabits at 1080i, but now we can do 4K at like 15 megabits, right? So half the bandwidth, but maybe 8 times the quality, maybe more, right? So technology is always going to improve, and 8K is not going to be any different. And things will progress and become more affordable and be more available and fully sooner rather than later, we'll see consumers take advantage of it. So hopefully that will happen soon, and we expect that. You know, YouTube already supports 8K, so it's not something that's outrageous. And many YouTube creators already use high-quality cameras, so we expect that. It's just an excellent... It's an excellent 8K TV. It has very good brightness and everything. And great colors. We're in a very terrible lighting situation here. And even then, the quality of the image is just phenomenal, right? So, yeah, we expect nothing less going forward. I actually heard, I think they told me that they have their stuff in space sometimes. And that would be perfect. They're bringing it in space and make 8K movies. Yeah, I mean, it's very flexible, right? Because 8K is not just about high resolution. So if you think about it, you do 4X zoom, you're still at 4K, right? If you do 8X zoom on this image, it's still 1080p, right? And we're not using any lenses. And you add lenses on top of that. You got extraordinary, amazing detail that you can zoom in on. So from space, from airplanes, from within stadiums, right? You can have just four cameras covering the entire stadium. Versus now, where you need a bunch of zoom lenses, bunch of different cameras to cover the whole stadium. So lots of applications and 8K is, I think, not just resolution, but other applications you'll see out in the market. I think many people were surprised how quickly 4K became standard in the industry. It's not possible nearly to buy 1080p TVs anymore. Yeah. And it's probably going to be the same with 8K, then boom. At some point, if you buy a TV, it's probably going to be an 8K. Right. I end up scaling and all the technologies that are out there today. You're going to get improvements, no matter what, right? So it's not like 8K is the only thing that improved, right? The glass, the backlight, the pixels, power processors, everything. Everything on this TV from, like, say, two, three years ago, or even compared to the 4K, it's greatly improved, right? So everything improves. That's not just one thing that improves resolution, right? So every time a new generation TV comes out, many things improve. So the whole experience, not just the resolution. If you just only increase the resolution, then, yeah, it's not going to make a big difference, but it's not just the resolution colors, HDR, accuracy, color volume, so many things improve as new TV generation come. And cameras, too. So everything in the pipeline, right? So it's a generational change. And so we expect, hopefully, more and more people can enjoy this great content. I'm looking forward to upgrading my Micro Four Thirds to 8K. I want to YouTube in 8K. Yeah, why not? 120 would be better. Right. But then it's compression, right? Over the cable. Can you explain a little bit what's the whole thing about compression? Well, I mean, you have to compress it, right? We're all video takes up a crazy amount of data. So practically speaking, you have to compress it. And so compression is used everywhere, YouTube. You know, the camera is currently using right now to record. It's just the way it is. But compression technology also improves. So you'll see high quality images and smaller file sizes and bandwidth requirements moving forward. And the big topic has been the last few years, the industry doing HDR. And did they all agree what the HDR format should be supported on HDMI? HDMI supports everything. So it doesn't really matter. HDMI supports everything. So whatever HDR format you have access to, depending on your region and your content provider, we support everything. So you won't have any issues getting HDR over HDMI. And is it possible to, when we talk about all these certification systems, it's possible to engineer the certification to provide a certain guarantee of quality in a long time? Or it's just because it's high quality construction? There's two different things. You're talking about two different things now, right? So you were talking about now cable. Cable is just a copper wire that delivers the bandwidth, the data. And so our certification program ensures that the cables are tested and meets all the requirements necessary to support all the features of HDMI 2.1a, things like AK, HDR, and 4K 120. So that's part of that cable certification. And I think you already talked to Mike about that. So that's a separate topic. But for devices, we also require testing and compliance as well. And in the last two or three years, 2.1a came out. So what's the main difference here? Yeah, 2.1a is a minor update. We added what we call source-based home mapping, so source-based home mapping short for SBTM that allows source devices that are connected via HDMI to have more control over what we call tone mapping. So tone mapping is basically mapping color, brightness, contrast information from the content to the screen. Typically, that's done internally to the TV, but we also allow, now, with SBTM to the source device, game console, setup box, whatever it may be, to have more control over that if they want. For whatever reason, if it makes sense, especially for gaming, it kind of makes sense for the source device and the game console because it knows what content is going to generate. So to be able to control that fully on the TV is what SBTM and HDMI 2.1a has added. And to do the full 48 gigabit per second, you need to max out AK-60 plus all the HDR, plus all the indents. That's how the 48 gigabit is used, or is it always kind of used somehow? Yeah, and plus audio, I mean, there's everything combined, right? So AK-60 HDR with the highest quality audio available today is what you would use a maximum bandwidth for. But HDMI also supports lossless compression. So it's a compression without losing quality called DSC. It's an NGC standard. So we also support that sort of industrial applications. They want to do 10K, 12K, as possible already today. So consumers, we don't expect that to happen at any time soon. AK is plenty, but for a professional application, they need 10K, 12K, maybe even more. But HDMI can support that as well. And I guess the industry is showing better and better compression technologies to do better AK-120 and better 10K and other stuff. Yeah, yeah, but that's independent of HDMI. Compression is outside of HDMI, because we handle everything after it's uncompressed. So we always handle the highest quality possible. What happens before that is really always changing and it depends on the platform and country and so many other variables. Hi everyone, my name is Mike. I'm in charge of the TAVO certification program. Now I'm going to introduce you the new program called HDMI certification banner. As you can show the demo, you can show the banner. It says click to verify only at hdmi.org verify. And it's very simple. We just click the banner. It will link to our server. It says congratulations. The brand is Rocky Fish, the model number, the type, ultra-high-speed HDMI cable, and the length, 25 feet. And it's related to the real one, 25 feet, Rocky Fish, ultra-certification cable. And that's with like a QR code? Or how do people just scan the QR code? Yes, yes, yes. And some consumers will get confused before they go to get, before they get the cable, how do they make sure the cable is really certified so we launch this program. It's very simple. It's called a new program enable consumer to verify the qualification of HDMI cable during online shopping. Click or scan banner connect to HDMI LA for verification on HDMI adapter status, cable certification status. And the reason why it's important to certify is because you want the HDMI cable designed to be tested to make sure that it has full support for interference. Yes. And we, for example, the ultra-high-speed HDMI cable has these so many features. They can support AK video, HDR VR, ERC, and the old HDMI 2.1A feature and display the authentication anti-contact label. And so it's important when you have a long cable that it's stable and it's been tested. If you just buy a cheap cable that's not certified, you might have some problems at home with the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5G, 4G, everything. Yeah. For example, the ultra cable, the most important feature is the EMI feature. As you just mentioned, a lot of Wi-Fi, a lot of equipment, electronics. It's all support like TV, soundbar. It's all in the home. Yeah. And you don't want it to interfere with your cables. Yes, yes, yes. So the cables are... How do you make high-quality cable? You need to have good isolation of the copper? It's very professional. You need to test the connection, isolation, the EMI chamber and the good shielding and the jacket, PVC. It's all very professional skill. And the lab will test everything to make sure it meets our standard and the compliant test spec. And here is the HDMI Ultra High Speed. This is also 2.1. 2.1, yeah. And the silver one is 2.1 and the orange one is 2.0. This one can guarantee 80 Gbps and this guarantee 48 Gbps. All right. Ultra High Speed for premium. And here the Computex, there's several cable manufacturers. And this area is focused on Taiwan HDMI adapter cable manufacturer. Because Computex is holding Taiwan, we promote Taiwan manufacturer, yeah. And here we have... All these brands are all manufactured by Taiwan adapter. All right. There's many here. Yes, yes, yes. All right. Because millions and millions of cables are being sold around the world. Yeah. And sometimes it's a little bit messy to figure out does my cable support this or that? Yeah. Need to know. Sometimes they even put a little logo on the cable to certify what they are or it's only on the box. Actually the best way or the simplest way is to recognize the label. You only have to recognize the label and you don't need to know all the features because the lab has already tested all the features for you and the consumer will not get confused. And here is another Ultra for the 48 Gbps. That's with all the Ultra. Yes. And the premium 2.0. Yeah, yeah. All right. So consumers just need to know that. They need to know there's a premium and Ultra. Yes. That's it. And every cable manufacturer is joining this? Of course. A lot of professional cable manufacturers join premium or Ultra programs already. And here, for example, there's an active optical. So the optical can also be part of this? Yes. To do Ultra? Yes. This is how you get very long cables? Yes. Yes. So all these Ultra cables support AK-66? AK-66, yes. And 4K-120? 4K-120, yes, yes, yes.