News HDMI cables are about to get a big upgrade to make your life easier

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The HDMI Licensing Administrator has announced that a new feature for HDMI cables is coming our way — here’s what it means for home cinema lovers.

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[ginandbacon]

This sounds a lot like fiber HDMI cables, which can have much longer runs than copper and fiber is also unidirectional with a source and display end. That and you can run HDMI o er a CAT5 matrix but those are obviously not cheap. Also, is this truly for 2.1 cables? The HDMI forum has said HDMI 2.0 no longer exists and companies can sell devices with 2.0b HDMI ports labeled as 2.1 even if they have zero 2.1 "features". Yes, everything that was mandatory for 2.1 is now optional and its up to device makers to list the true capabilities.