Subsequent-gen TV tech tipped for CES 2025 reveal as HDMI 2.2 will get itself linked

A brand new HDMI normal is coming to CES 2025
Extra bandwidth and sooner refresh charges are promised
Backwards appropriate along with your current {hardware}

With just a few weeks to go earlier than CES 2025, the rumors are coming thick and quick. And the thickest, quickest rumor this week is that we’ll be handled to model new TV tech within the type of HDMI 2.2, the most recent model of the trusty AV normal.

HDMI – Excessive Definition Multimedia Interface – is among the key connectivity requirements for audio-visual gadgets. Likelihood is it is what you utilize to attach your soundbar or AV receiver to your TV with, and it is in your gaming consoles and different AV package too.

As ever, new variations promise improved options. So what can we count on this time round?

What HDMI 2.2 means for you

The present model of HDMI, HDMI 2.1b, was launched in 2023. It was a giant improve, with help for larger video resolutions of as much as 10K, sooner refresh charges of 120Hz, dynamic HDR and as much as 48Gbps of information switch bandwidth over applicable cabling.

HDMI 2.2 is predicted to enhance on that in a number of key areas. In line with an e mail from the HDMI Licensing Administrator as reported by German publication ComputerBase, “The brand new specification, that includes next-generation HDMI know-how and better bandwidth, will allow quite a lot of larger resolutions and refresh charges and shall be supported with a brand new HDMI cable.”

There aren’t any particulars as but about what that larger bandwidth shall be, or what the boosted resolutions and refresh charges shall be. And it is value noting that the assertion does not particularly say HDMI 2.2, so name-wise this might turn into HDMI 2.1c. However HDMI 2.2 sounds extra thrilling and can promote extra issues, together with a model new type of costly cable, so the smart cash’s on that.

What does it imply for you? Within the quick time period, nothing: HDMI 2.1 was launched in 2017 however took a number of years to develop into commonplace; the identical is probably going with HDMI 2.2. And the arrival of a more recent model will not change your current home leisure package or make it out of date, as the usual is backwards appropriate. However over time we’ll see the newer normal make its method into graphics playing cards and high-end TVs, earlier than filtering down into extra inexpensive gadgets.