What They Say
TFTCentral published a story about a Chinese monitor that claimed to have HDMI 2.1 ports, although the interfaces seemed to be HDMI2.0. The story was picked up by Toms Hardware and others.
What We Think
This is just a kind of “reductio ad absurdum” development of the policy of HDMI naming. I argued for years with HDMI about the idea that HDMI levels did not require mandatory features. This case just highlights that it seems that you can claim the later/higher level, without having any of the features of the later version. HDMI’s secretariat had some sympathy with my point of view, but were bound by the votes of the members, which always allowed this flexibility. My own view was that HDMI could have had ‘use case’ feature sets, so that devices could be promoted as being HDMI X.X Home Cinema or HDMI X.X Gaming etc.
If you thought choosing compatible HDMI components was already complicated, it just seems to have got worse. (BR)
