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Trinnov’s Altitude Surround Processors Now Support HDMI 2.1 All Image Credit: Trinnov The French company Trinnov who specialize in high end signal processing have recently announced an HDMI board upgrade for its Altitude16 and flagship Altitude32 immersive surround-sound processors to support many HDMI 2.1 features. The upgrade will be immediately available […]

Trinnov’s Altitude Surround Processors Now Support HDMI 2.1

January 5, 2024 in Audio / Equipment / Firmware Updates / News tagged Altitude 16 / Altitude 32 / Firmware Upgrade / Hardware Upgrade / HDMI2.1 / Trinnov / Version 4.3.2 by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI Cable Power – HDMI 2.1a Amendment 1 Currently HDMI cables only support the transport of 5VDC@50mA for handling CEC/EDID. Their primary function is to carry digital data and signaling, not DC power. For those that need long HDMI cable runs, especially for 18 and now 48Gbps, this meant one […]

HDMI Cable Power – HDMI 2.1a Amendment 1

June 12, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged Amendment 1 / HDMI / HDMI2.1a / Power Cable by fromvinyltoplastic

Yamaha Aventage AVR Update – HDMI 2.1 Gaming Features & HDR10+ Image Credit: Yamaha Yamaha has just released a firmware update for its Aventage RX-A4A, RX-A6A, RX-A8A – Firmware Update Ver.1.65 that includes several long awaited HDMI 2.1 gaming and display features plus a few bug fixes. When Yamaha originally […]

Yamaha Aventage AVR Update – HDMI 2.1 Gaming Features & HDR10+

May 1, 2022 in Audio / Equipment / Firmware Updates / News tagged Aventage / Firmware Update / RX-A4A / RX-A6A / RX-A8A / Yamaha by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 & 2.1a Compliance Certification – Utter Confusion! I have never hidden my disdain for BOTH HDMI and HDCP but now I have good reason to truly despise the entire set of standards. At CES 2022 yet another version of HDMI was introduced, 2.1a. The point here is that […]

HDMI 2.1 & 2.1a Compliance Certification – Utter Confusion!

January 27, 2022 in Equipment / News tagged 2.1 / 2.1a / HDMI / SBTM / Source Based Tone Mapping by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon AVS-3 and Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI 2.1 3 Port Switchers All Image Credit: Denon & Marantz Do you own one of the latest 8K AVR’s from Denon or Marantz that only have one HDMI 2.1 compliant 8K input? Tired of swapping HDMI cables for your PS5, Xbox Series X, […]

Denon AVS-3 and Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI 2.1 3 Port Switchers

September 11, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged 8K / AVS-3 / Denon / HDMI Switcher / HDMI2.1 / Marantz / VS3003 by fromvinyltoplastic

JVC Releases Three 8K HDMI 2.1 Laser Projectors – First Look I just sat through an very informative on-line presentation of this new range of 8K laser, HDMI 2.1 projectors that was arranged by The Screening Room, Chris Deutsch of JVC and Kris Deering of Deep Dive AV. See the […]

JVC Releases Three 8K HDMI 2.1 Laser Projectors – First Look

September 3, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged 8K / BLU-Escent / DLA-NZ7 / DLA-NZ8 / DLA-NZ9 / DLA-RS2100 / DLA-RS3100 / DLA-RS4100 / HDMI 2.1 / JVC / LASER by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon and Marantz AV Receivers HDMI 2.1 Bug Permanently Fixed It’s been a while coming, but wait no longer, you can now go out and buy a Denon or Marantz AV Receiver with the full confidence that it will not have the reported 4K 120Hz HDMI bug issue. Forbes and […]

Denon and Marantz AV Receivers HDMI 2.1 Bug Permanently Fixed

August 16, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Denon / Fix / HDMI 2.1 bug / HDMI 2.1 bug fix / Marantz / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

AVR-X8500HA & AV8805A HDMI 8K Upgrade All Image Credit: Denon and Marantz. Well it looks like we are on a roll for 8K upgrades, HDMI 2.1 support and the fix for the HDMI 2.1 bug. This hardware and firmware upgrade for the Denon […]

AVR-X8500HA & AV8805A HDMI 8K Upgrade

May 28, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged AV8805 / AVR-8500H / Denon / HDMI Upgrade / Marantz by fromvinyltoplastic

Yamaha Reveals HDMI 2.1 Bug Fix Just as with Denon and Marantz, Yamaha found itself in the same HDMI 2.1 bug boat towards the end of 2020 that was plaguing their new HDMI 2.1 AV receivers. The problem prevented AVRs passing through 4K at 120Hz correctly from Xbox Series X […]

Yamaha Reveals HDMI 2.1 Bug Fix

May 26, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Bug Fix / HDMI2.1 / RX-A2A / RX-V4A / RX-V6A / TSR-400 / TSR-700 / Yamaha by fromvinyltoplastic

Denon & Marantz Solve HDMI 2.1 Bug With SPK618 With the release in 2020 of Denon’s and Marantz’s next generation of HDMI 2.1 receivers came a number of unexpected headaches. It turned out that they did not support the promised pass through of 8K signals or 4K/120Hz graphics from the […]

Denon & Marantz Solve HDMI 2.1 Bug With SPK618

April 27, 2021 in Equipment / News tagged Denon / HDMI 2.1 bug fix / HDMI bug / Marantz / Sound United / SPK618 by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 4K/120Hz Bug Fix? At the beginning of November, From Vinyl To Plastic reported the discovery of a potential chipset bug in the latest HDMI 2.1 chipsets sourced by Panasonic and used in the new Denon, Marantz, and Yamaha HDMI 2.1 8K AV Receivers. As reported on the German web site […]

HDMI 2.1 4K/120Hz Bug Fix?

December 10, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 4K/120Hz / Bug / Denon / Fix / HDMI 2.1 / Marantz / Sound United by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 Bug – 4K/120Hz Failure As the video industry continues to strive for ever higher resolutions and faster frame rates an obstacle has hit several AV receiver models. Driven primarily by the gaming world, the new HDMI 2.1 standard supports features to include; 4K resolution at frame rates of […]

HDMI 2.1 Bug – 4K/120Hz Failure

November 3, 2020 in Audio / Equipment / News tagged 4KP120 / 8KP60 / Denon / Fixed Rate Link / FRL / HDMI 2.1 / Marantz / Panasonic Solutions / Sound United / Yamaha by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI Data Rate Calculator — HDMI Data Rate Calculator It has come to my attention that many readers would like to know how to simply calculate their HDMI data rates for all the different configurations that are now possible with 4K and HD. I have presented several tables to show these rates but they are […]

HDMI Data Rate Calculator

April 22, 2020 in General Posts / Video tagged 4K / 8K / Data Rates / Extron / HDMI / HDMI Data Link Budget by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI 2.1 - A Quick Refresher — HDMI 2.1 – A Quick Refresher Introduction HDMI 2.1 is now being included in new receivers, displays and TV’s . So let’s see what this HDMI development provides us with: We see that the HDMI 2.1 native bit rate caps out at 48Gbps. After that it is all compressed using […]

HDMI 2.1 – A Quick Refresher

February 2, 2020 in Cables & Interconnects / News / Personal Views & Comments tagged 10K / 48Gbps / 8K / ALLM / eARC / HDMI 2.1 / HDR / QFT / QMS / VRR by fromvinyltoplastic

FSR Fiber Optic HDMI Cable Review — FSR Fiber Optic HDMI Cable Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. So after a couple of years my CablesToGo 10.2Gbps active fiber optic HDMI cable has become intermittent when pushed to 1080P60. It’s fine at 1080P24. Not too stellar at $233.99 for a 33 footer. […]

FSR Fiber Optic HDMI Cable Review

February 1, 2020 in Cables & Interconnects / Reviews / Video tagged 18Gb/s / 4:4:4 / 4KP60 / CoilGuard / Fiber HDMI / Fiber Optical / FSR / HDCP2.2 / HDMI 2.0 by fromvinyltoplastic