HDMI 2.0 Displays Can Be Labeled as HDMI 2.1, according to Official HDMI Licensing Administrator

[Tsing]

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Users who are on the market for a new monitor will want to triple check the data sheet to confirm that it supports 4K/120 Hz (RGB, 10-bit color), Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), and other key features enabled by the latest and greatest version of the HDMI specification, which provides an increased bandwidth of 48 Gbps.



That’s because TFT Central recently reached out to HDMI.org and discovered that the requirements for HDMI 2.1 certification are actually quite a bit looser than one might have imagined. More specifically, a spokesperson basically told the publication that HDMI 2.0 devices could carry the HDMI 2.1 label, as the older version “no longer exists.” The implication is that a manufacturer could get away with marketing a monitor as being HDMI 2.1 certified even when it is limited to HDMI 2.0 features.



What HDMI.org told TFT Central:



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[Brian_B]

Oh here we go again with the misleading bullshit.

It's like the DIrectX "Feature Level" compatibility, or every version of USB ever. It waters down the name so that it doesn't mean anything any longer, and you gotta go digging to see if what you want to do is supported or not. May as well just throw out the revision number.