Voluminous bandwidth, buttery-smooth refresh rates, and pricier cables are on deck with the new HDMI 2.2 standard.

A sub-par HDMI cable can needlessly hold your media devices back. You may have seen “HDMI 2.1” and tensed up at the prospect of yet another changing technical standard with which to keep up.

So who might benefit from HDMI 2.2? Right now, it’s mostly for hardware and software developers. The kinds of resolutions and refresh rates that the new spec (and the new cable) will support ...

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The forthcoming HDMI 2.2 standard will bring more bandwidth, a new way to get a handle on lip-sync errors and a new, backward-compatible cable, the HDMI Forum said at CES 2025. The good news is ...

HDMI 2.2 will require new cables for full compatibility, but it has the same physical connectors. Tiny QR codes are suggested to help with that, however. The new specification is named HDMI 2.2 ...

HDMI 2.2, which will require new cables to take advantage of its most high-performance features. It will not require a new connector, though, thankfully. Though the HDMI Forum is officially ...

We were told that this new standard would support higher bandwidth and would require a new cable, but we could only speculate about the details. (See our article HDMI 2.2 New Standard Promises Higher ...

The new capabilities will be “supported with a new cable,” according to the HDMI Forum’s email to The Verge announcing the presser. The spec is likely to be HDMI 2.2, as VideoCardz notes.

from HDMI 2.1a to HDMI 2.2. It may require an all-new cable if you get the peak resolution and refresh rates on any incoming Nvidia 50-series GPU. The day before the HDMI Forum announced its ...