Sorry, Rebecca, but your article doesn’t seem to clarify any confusion regarding HDMI.  What is the difference between 1.2 and 1.3?  What about audio?  What’s the difference between 1.3 (a) and 1.3 (b)?  Is it possible to know which components are compatible with each other before connecting them?

I’m glad that Component and digital audio still works 100% of the time, even if it’s only 1080i (which will be changing in the very near future).

I think that was the point of the article… that the specs aren’t standardized and so the tags of 1.2 or 1.3 or whatever aren’t really meaningful at this juncture. Or at least, that’s how I read it… I could be wrong.

“The High-Definition Multimedia Interface is one of the more confusing and misunderstood features of HDTVs. HDMI is the highest quality connection available for audio and video products, and it can support features, such as “Full HD” 1080p resolution and Dolby TrueHD, that other connectors cannot”

Not only is the above not correct it is misleading regardless of intention. It is the current popular choice for 1080P. Other connectors cannot? That’s just not true! Why don’t you instead say that HDMI is around soley for the purpose of content protection and to generate more equipment sales...Now that’s TRUE!

This is easily one of the most misleading titles I’ve ever seen--nothing is explained in the article at all. All you’ve written is a puff-piece that says that the various specifications have options that some manufacturers can choose to implement. However, those same specs also have some very concrete things that the manufacturers must implement.

This article is worthless because it doesn’t explain anything,go here for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

Worthless article. Thanks for wasting my time.

I hate to heap on the hate when everyone else seems to be doing it already.  But an article with a title like “explaining hdmi versions and variations” probably ought to do just that.

Listen, there’s no harm in writing an article like this, but you’d do better if you gave it a more appropriate title, like “Why Knowing the HDMI version doesn’t tell you everything,” or something like that.

I’m just trying to offer some productive feedback.  I realize you put some energy into writing this, so I’m not going to dump on you like everyone else seems to be doing.

I agree with Gremmy… thanks for putting some effort into writing… but really the only reason I clicked to read this article was because I thought it would explain the differences, like the title suggests.  I understand this site gets ad revenue from clicks, but thats pretty pathetic.  I come here because I dont wanna read http://www.electronichouse.com ... but now this site is giving me the same fluffy garbage.