Trinnov’s Altitude Surround Processors Now Support HDMI 2.1
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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 for current Altitude models and as an upgrade kit in February for existing owners of the Altitude16 and Altitude32 models.
This new board (VMX-H9K-820) supports eight HDMI 2.1 inputs and two HDMI 2.1 outputs, and includes all of the features offered in the previous HDMI 2.0 board, except downscaling on the HDMI 1 output. Prior to installing the board and using its new range of features the processors firmware needs to be updated to version 4.3.2. Upgrades must be performed by a certified Trinnov dealer for Altitude models that use the current HDMI 2.0 board. Models with the earlier board must been shipped to Trinnov for upgrade with the processor turnaround anticipated to be approximately 2 weeks.
The added features include; Fixed Rate Link (FRL), an increase in bit rate from 18 Gbps to 40 Gbps, support for high frame rates (up to 120fps at 4K and 60fps at 8K), dynamic (frame-by-frame) HDR, enhanced gaming features are also supported such as; Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Automatic Low Latency Mode (ALLM) HDCP 2.3 support is provided across all eight inputs and two outputs with eARC and ARC supported on HDMI output 1. (48Gbps is not supported due to chip limitations).
Upgrade MSRP (current HDMI 2.0 board/ 1st gen. HDMI board):
- US: $1,250/$1,500
- UK: £TBA
- EU: €TBA
For more general information visit the Trinnov web site.
For information on the latest 4.3.2 firmware features click here.
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