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Four years ago, we were jazzed by the potential of HDMI 2.1, which can provide variable refresh rates, automatic low latency connections, and of course, a giant pipe with 48 Gbps of bandwidth.
The body owner of the HDMI standards encourages TV and monitor manufacturers to lie and call their TVs and monitors “HDMI 2.1” if they don't have any of the optional features.
The HDMI Licensing Administrator was told that the situation was perfectly reasonable, after being confronted with the news that a monitor was being sold that did not support HDMI 2.1 features.
It is not pleasant.
Many people who have been encouraged in our reviews to seek out HDMI 2.1 products may get fooled into fake futureproofing if they don't look at the fine print to see whether features like ALLM, VRR, or even high refresh rates are possible. They will get fooled by the fact that there was a perfectly good version of HDMI without those features, but the Licensing Administrator decided to kill off that brand when it introduced the new one.
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Do you see all those "Yes" in the rightmost column? They should read something.
We should have known that the marquee features of HDMI 2.1 would be optional for a while now, and we have seen many TV ships without full support. We characterized shopping for the best gaming TV for PS5 and Xbox Series X as early growing pains.
Now that the HDMI powers have expressed their support, it looks like those pains might have been the beginning. The HDMI Licensing Administrator confirmed with us that, in fact,Xiaomi is doing the right thing. The devices can no longer be certified for 2.0.
We are dependent on manufacturers and other people.
Is there a comment about the consumer confusion that would likely lead to? I ask via email. Wright says that all of us are dependent on the manufacturers and the resellers to say which features their devices support.
Do you trust your manufacturer or partner who tries to get you to buy more products? Do you think the standards body should be responsible for making a label that means something instead of helping companies to deceive you?
You might ask, "What about theusb?" We are annoyed by the branding of the product, where a single cable could theoretically allow you to charge your laptop, transfer up to 20Gbps of data, hook up multiple monitors and even connect to an external graphics card, but might actually do nothing of the above. We have seen similar branding shenanigans from theUSB, like when the Forum decided to make the two versions look better at retail by calling them "USB 3.2 Gen 1" and "USB 3.2 Gen 2".
I get the feeling that the USB-IF is trying to allay consumer confusion with new sets of logos and names, even if it makes too many of them for them to be practical.
As someone who has helped family members understand that the number of megapixels has nothing to do with the processing speed of your phone, this sucks. Buying cables for these devices is a bit of a shitshow, with very little guarantee that you will get a quality cable that can actually offer enough bandwidth.
Please do better.
